WE ARE OPEN 6 DAYS A WE BY CANDLE-POWER, BATTERY-POWER, AND WILL-POWER

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Coping with the miners' strike, 1974 vintage 12 Novembar 1981 Has Gormley given up his seat to Scargill?

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at's there to say?' absidy of f2 • use suu ernments complaints Russia. If it † coal can be £25,000 ht be a difot simply a obs, it's the the exila zlouln a year savalon. a ban on imuld result in paid on the nail. strike. We'd have had a whip round to help them out. We didn't hear any when Ezra's salary went up from £33,000 to £45,000 or from to £33,000 for the rest of them. There was no aggravation then.

When interest rates went up, the Board paid out, without question, an There was no agWhen the private contraclots pur up men prices, the Board up without question, paid cash to the government and say the reason we are in debt is because you forced up interest charges.

We asked They said £6.45 for a faceworker. 5.7 per cent on basic pay or 3 per cent on lake nome pav cepi such an offer.

When we went cond bloody reduction They veal offering meeting, we'd acutally £4.25 for a surface worker, that's two per cent on take home pay plus fl on the incentive scheme.

That's at a time when mortgages have gone up by f3 to f5, rents are set to go up the same amount, going up by 12 per cent. Our last in crease was 9.8 per cent at a time of 16 per cent inflation.

For the first time I sat on the National Executive Committee heard other members of the executive arguing for acceptance of a cut in wages. . I hope I never have to sit through another meeting like it.

If Prince Charles and Lady Diana can get 25 per cent, Edwardes can get 35 per cent, then the miners have a right to 23 per cent.

NOW I'm moderate reasonable man. I'll settle for seven OCI CCIl tion. That condition is that we seven per cent of Ezra's salary. You can't spend a percentage, you can only spend money.

There's an infection affecting this industry. It's called the overtime bug. We all nave to callic ciences on the amount of overtime being worked in this industry.

It's time we had a salary arrangeeveryone If it's good enough for Derek Ezrager, it los good lough former Ezra, Gormley, it's good enough for you.

salary elimination of overtime could create No way would we acback for the seprices are and if the Honda man and on one conor. in the your

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When we went to meet the Board they told us there was f71m available.