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Socialist Outlook no. 35, January 16 1993 · 206 words

Miners' tight is entering crucial phase miners. He said, to applause the conference, that the RMT Executive would be meeting on Tuesday of this week and Left would be proposing a ballot of the whole of the RMT membership in support of a one-day stay-away.

This approach, that any stayaway called should be organised as strike action in order to make it effective and not left vague or just to the individual worker, was echoed both in the discussions in the regional and individual union workshops as well as in the decisions of the conference.

plenary not only took resolutions from the workshops but gave a platform to speakers from a number of important strikes taking place at MINERS the present time: the Islington NALCOstrike; women from the Annie Hall dispute; women from the Middlebrook Mushrooms strike in Hull who are picketing super-markets; and Asian 788888 Burnsalls strike in the West Midlands, who got a tremendous reception from the conference and a prolonged standing ovation.

In addition to this the conference voted to organise a recall conference next stage of the struggle beThe conference represented an important steps forward for he miners support movemen and provided the basis for some important new initiatives to be

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