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The unanimous decision of ean countries and in the USA the NUM Executive to ballot if they only discovered these miners on the question of yesterday! transfer of workers from Canley.
They have argued that Canley men should be treated as newcomers to Leyland cars; that their service at Canley should not further action in pursuit of early retirement is a conscious fraud.
Not of course that the miners do not have an unbeatable case for. early retirement. On the contrary: the fact that at this stage in the twentieth century British miners are still forced to work on to the age of 65 is a crushing indictment of the treachery of successive rightwing NUM leaderships.
Gormley and his allies now glibly argue how much better retirement conditions are in other EuropTo wages, with kind was the - as facts WhaT han tha patinamast LID ILLION Issuc suddenly come to the fore after years of being swept under the carpet? Because like all other sections of workers, the miners are now beginning to recognise the massive scale of the wage cuts inflicted upon them by the TUC's 42% deal with Healey - imposed with the central collaboration of the NUM leadership.
head off the feeling on Gormley had to come up classic diversion of some and the obvious candidate retirement issue, on which various manoeuvres arguing it is not varinto monnarmao doveri an it in ant covered by the social contract.
SAFE TOPIC
In any event it will provide a safe topic for talk among union militants, while Gormley and Daly get on with the serious job of policing the pay laws alongside ones and Murray.
A heavy vote for action to back the early retirement demand is therefore guaranteed, though it is also more than likely that the Executive will take it not as a mandate for all-out strike action to win conditions miners should have But you diversion is.
buT It is crucial lnat NUM militants use every avenue within the union to press for a fight to reject the 4%% deal, to restore the cuts already made in living standards by wage controls by demanding a substantial increase tied to a sliding scale of wages to protect against inflation. If this is not done now, huge cuts in rea wages will be felt by every mine by the next NUM Conference..
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