North Derbyshire Area (personal capacity)
for £25 across-the-board on basic rates. would particularly benefit the lowest paid ferences between areas resulting bonus scheme.
The NCB offered us 7.2 per cent if we accepted 'cost unit efficiency', THE LESSONS of our pay claim and overtime ban can be summed up as 'getting the facts across'. The popular press has talked about our claim for 31 per cent. What we really said was This the surfaceworkers - bringing them up to E115 a week. It would equal out some of the big diftrom the other words pit The Special Delegate Conference offered rate and early retirement at 55 with full benefits on top of the 7.2 might well have accepted cent and the men these issues which were agreed in principle last year, have now beer rejected out of hand by the cidence that the Tories an now looking for confron tation with the miners • In 1930 they picked off the sacked beret sacked BL and tens thousands of his member followed him down road. It was traindrivers and health harkers this defeat the miners then that can gives her a whole year's won full In that time we've won support panel meetings amblea canteen and group our forces for the ballot.
And it's been at pit level that we've needed to convince the men rallies are very good fo but -to a large degree they are preaching to the converted. The committee men have to go away them posters, stickers and papers A new thing, which has been very useful, has been that arca and branch officials have been another's areas and branches. This has been good for bolstering weaker areas and pits.