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cialist Challenge badges available at 25p each Orders for 10 or more badges ao each Orders for 100 or more 15p each payable to "Carchernes dinal Enterprises' and send to Badges PO Box 50 Lonnot get your trade union or Labour Party branch to order some? 24 June 1982 page 2 that day of action to fan VUl coalfields to alert the rest into all tne other of the miners that we intended a total stoppage to save the pit on 19 June, explain the issues involved and win their support and soldarity. The reaction was uniformally positive.
the formal political complexion of the leadership in the various areas, got committment for support every place we went.' They lobbied the NEC which carried a motion unanimously supporting the Kent area in its fight to keep snowaown open. view of this and on request ship, they decided their plans for all-out strike.
'Snowdown's future will now be discussed as a matter meeting between the union and the NCB on 24 June There will then be a full report to the annual con ference starting 5 July. If there is positive response from the Board then there will be all-out action for jobs called from then' workers are presently engaged in battle agains the lories was the potential of joint action?
'Should Buckton of the drivers' union make promised Jack, 'the miners will respond. There will be no question of the miners allowing coal to be handled by blackleg labour.
are also doing what we can to help the healthworkers. Obviously we have to reserve strength for our own bat tle, but have sent all the at the annual Saturday.
Despite the rain, large crowd assembled at the rally to hear speakers Michael Foot and NUM President Arthur Scargill.
Foot spoke of grave threat posed by the Tebbit Bill, offering as a solution the for CO-vocalli returning Labour government committed to repealing the Bill. This he said was necessary for the good of the nation; he also talked Tories immorality concerning mass In the same vein, Foot dismissed Britain's policy in the South Atlantic as a distraction, concluding with characteristic percep tion that 'the is Scargill, made Arthur SEVERAL thousand miners and their families were joined by contingents of health workers miners gala at Doncaster on Arthur Scargill clear his opposition to the Tory war. * am opposed to Britain trying to hang OILLU imperialist colonialist past', in the presence, of Foid. said.
Scargill went to denounce the witch-hunt by pointing out that unity can only be achieved by attacking the Tories socialists.
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same kind of traitors as the SDP defectors and pledged the NUM's opposition to the witch-hunt of the Militant tendency. This statement was greeted with loud cheering The of the miners in supporting the health workers was part of agalls Tebbit, Scargill said He then reiterated the demand for a four day week, . retire ment at 55 and a minimum wage of £110 per week. In continuing this theme, he starine antone sure stating that, one pit is selected as a target, I ask you to take industrial action to save the pits, to save jobs and to save the industry'.
Enthusiastic applause and cheerlig firmed the miners' willingness to oblige.
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