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Norman Willis, TUC genera! secretary, turned upat the press launch of the AEEU's ballot campaign to preach a healing gospel Comrade Willis ob viousiy subscribes to former US president Lyndon B. Johnson's maxim that it's better to have your rivals inside the tent piss ing out than outside the tent pissing in.
ut given new Tory legisla ion abolishing the TUC's Brid lington agreement - which regulates which unions organise which grades - the sparks are now a real threat to other unions, whichever way they choose to urinate. A COAL bosses" conference in South Africa's Las Vegas leatures a golf tournament, safaris and a chartered airplane trip to Victoria Falls. Even the "field trip to visit local mines travels by ultra-luxury train and in cludes an overnight stay at a private game reserve.
The 8th Pacific Rim Coat.Conference takes place in Sun City, a notorious gambling den located in the nominally-independent Preto. ra puppet state of Bonhuthatsys. na from June 29 to July 1, with the field trip taking up the next three While hundreds of thousands of miners across the world face the sack, top management in the in dustry will be able to pass this thinly-disguised holiday off as work and claim their expenses back from their companies.
Conterence registration is'a snip at $1000, and just $200 for accompanying spouses. The "working' trip is a mere $1475 the pair. The junketing is an optiona extra, with prices ranging trom a modest 550 for the goif to $875 tor These prices do not include hotel bills or airfares.
The main conference hotel is The Palace of the Lost City, billed as the most extraordinary hotel in the world... guests will teel they love bun weicoco to an im perial residence"
Speakers on the 'technical pro. granune are mainy souin alrican businessmen. but include Stalinist bureaucrat Wei Goufu, of the China National Coal Import and Export Corp and, somewhat shamerony, James mollaist, press dent of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers. An African National Congressispeaker is yet to be announced.
mineworkers facing the dole in Britain who fancy popping along should fax Loretta Pelotsky Of AER Enterprises, on 01 01 909 254 6812.