loading activists from Parkside, Closures and delegates from up to 12 MSGs.
Unite the Struggles nationa conference. Metropolitan University Students' Union Building, Oxford Road, Manchester (the old polytechnic). saturday 27 February, Contact adtress: MSG conference, PO Box 9. Eccles Square, Eccles, Salford, M30 7FX. Tel: 0942 684763, 0695 424451 Socialist Campaign Group Supporters Network and the future of socialism Organising the left in the Labour party Saturday April 17th Sheffield Hallam University, Pond St 11-5pm For further details contact: SCGSN, c/o Jeremy Corbyn, Red Rose Club, 129a Sever Sisters Road, London N7 The National Union of Mineworkers has correctly condemned the trade and industry select committee report, which mended a E500m five-year package to save, at most, 19 of the 31 threatened pits (see bOx).
NUM president Arthur Scargill told a delegate conference last week that Labour should not have endorsed the document Mouthpiece The MPs concerned are committee chair Richard riberoi, More Sharon Star con former NUM official), Adam Ingram (erstwhile Trotskyist and later a Kinnock aide) and Stan Orme (Kinnock's public mouthpiece in the 1984.85 miners dispute).
"If you look at the committee's figures, it is inescapable that reduced market for coal at power stations trom 60 million tonnes to 40 million tonnes," Scargill argued.
"We find that proposition and the suggestion that we agree to new working prac tices to be totally unacceptable." The experience of other countries was that longer shifts means more accidents, he added.
"The committee got it wrong and their recommendations are not consistent with Labour Party policy." • A subsidy of €500 million over five years to subsidise the production of an extra 19 million tonnes of coal • Up to 6380 million of the subsidy to come from the fossil fuel levy currently used to subsidise the nuclear industry (the nuclear levy) • Coal industry costs to be reduced by reforming working practices"
GRIMI Trade and Industry Select Committee report British Energy Policy and the Market for Coal • Accessible coal to be extracted from the 10 pits earmarked for immediate closure • Any pit threatened with closure to be put into the Colliery Review Procedure • A reduction in opencast mining and greater controls on opencast production • Imposition of the nuclear levy on electricity supplied from France No. 37 February 13, 1993 Page 5
for the steel, coal and ships