NUM conference ignores sacked miners
back-stabbing campaign
through a resolution for a rale-
change next year to force
clections and re-clection of
full-time positions. This can
only be an attack on Scargill.
THE ENTI to Arthur scaru: butting speecn at Yorkthire mine-
salaried basis to incorporate
KENT
carlos Coarita.Retle
Imprisoned Kent miner, Gary Hewell.
the incentive bonus scheme into the weekly wage
especially his call for direct
vacked up un napnnal deregar
• an NUM -...
action to fight Tory attacks. — showed that militancy is still
nave and well in NUM.
However the agenda for this
draw up an alternative
strategy to mangement's 'Wheeler Plan
•upposition to the varinus incentive schemes - the rules. 'Doncaster".
since Peter Heathfield will go anyway within two years, and his successor will face regular
vear: NUM cOnIc. Rothesay offers little of
re-clection under existing
There is no doubt that
stand against concessions on the working week and commitment to class action is a major embarrassment to CP and soft left area leadestups secking to compromise with British Coal bosses.
In this he must be delended
uhstanc-. electron
suhstance now that Thatcher's election victory has squashed
Kellingly" and
optione w central to the Wheeler Plan
Nots NUM condemns the Coal Board's attacks on the
week and insists: "we should
the life our of resolutions calling for action by *the nest
Labour government'!
Nowhere in an agonda
return of a Labour government: now. an
focussed largely on defensive demands is there any reterence to the miners still sacked and victimised as a result of the 1981-5 strike. There are no proposals on the next steps in
emergency reslution is needed in commit the uniun to further industrial action to secure their reinstatement.
The main issues up for debate at conference are of
working day and working stick to the adage of not a penny off the pay, nor a
None of the three
worki week. minute on the day
course pay, the management drive to speed-up, the longer
working work and 'incentive
resolutions from South Wales
controversial Margam propusals or changes in
However. Scotland Communist Party-led anti- Scargillites continuc their
by NUM mlitants, while the further organisation of a
is essential to beat back the
whuch will take shape under Thatcher's third term. WILLIAM HEAD Yorkshire NUM
the light for their reinstatement, despite
their support in the lew
inth
arca mentions the working practices.
lighting left wing rank and file renewed management offensive
WILLIAM HEAD
Yorkshire NUM
remarkably solid strikes in
agreements.
The Yorkshire area has months prior to the clection.
tabled a string of amendments.
These class war casualtics
calling for: had been told to wait for the
• increased wages un a
NALGO conference