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further job £1,500m on plant, Thev want is allow millions of Massive wastage machinery which is left idle, rested closed down shortly after.
nationalised action working people, dustry without pit nationalised energy workers' control. trol wages have the facts.
The Coal Board's answer to our demands is that there is no money in We are still paying interest on 9. coal owners. In addition. in 1980-1 1nterest repayments to the big banks came to 21,000 per working miner In 1979-80 the Board spent over materials and work done by private contractors.
resulted in pounds being spent on Or Inin faces or scams which are The crippling burden of interest repayments has to be ended and the contractors and suppliers should be The NCB is still run by the ex-coal owners. Their priority is to make profits rather than to serve the needs of If the bosses can't run the infalling real wages and the high cost of coal to working class families, then we will take over ourselves. We need to end the present stupid situation where the nationalised coal, gas and electricity industries compete with each other.
The oil industry should also be HELESSETY measure in the development of Such workers* conwould require full access to all step Mansfield Colliery NUM .conin the official Tories.
the way to the bank still in the see fit latter-day capitalist trick to living boost profits. union accepts accepting a wage cut.
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duction and the rises above that would —For the full claimTHE miners should fight for the full claim and give a lead against the The bosses are laughing the unions are picked off one by one and workers are forced into taking cuts in their living standards This country is still one of the ricnest on the planet. but the bulk of the personal wealth is hands of the superrich to be invested where they Inflation is little more than a never cut would Every time our pay increase premature Delow une rate or intiation we are the workers own the means of pro.
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duce, we should refuse to ac. trades. opt any roadcoon in our wving standards. Our wages should be поех-инкес. nis woud put an end to the pay rises which are in reality a cut in real wages. Pay be the this issue. real rises in the battle to redistribute the national cake.
Had the miners' 1972 pay in « DREN inflation-proofed. our basic would be ou per cen higher than it is just to maintain our arenasine gower, Ina Cu rent Tax and Price Index is running at 15.2 per cent and the rate is unlikely to fall as the Tories have no intention of introducing price Miners should also lead in the fight for a four u. -week without loss of pay - Chapple and Duffy will A Tour day waek help to reduce mass unemployment. Instead of ex pensive stockpiling of coal and closure of pits as at present ww we capitaist oren tated recession, new pits would have to be opened creating more jobs not only in mining but also i me anchiary Industres and Finally we have to fight for a rate-protection scheme and retirement on full pay. We cannot allow the leadership to go on flouting conference decisions on