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Prised by Socials Worker Primers and Publithers Lad. (TU). Corbridge Works, Corbrider Chescent, London E2 9DS Twa for one. That seems to he the average. Every time the rest of Britain has one General Election, the muners get two.
Today the situation is somewbat different. Today it's the Labour Government's turn to make the workers pay for the mess capitalism is in through theit precious Social Contrick of the NUM Exccutive upainst the Tories income policy, today, total indecision reigns as to what attitude to take to the productivity deal. At its last mocting a motion calling for rejection of the deal was defeated 15 votes to 11, and a motion for acceptance defeated 17 to 10° OPPOSITION All the miling class papers talk about rises of £12.50 a mock Jor Gormles, Lawrence Daly and th. NCB are united in their call for acceplance or the deal. But already Councis in Wales. Scotland. Yorkshire, Derbushine and Lancashire have recommonied rejcerion of the deal.
On 2 and 3 October, the miners will vote. Workers everywhere will be asking w hut 1s at stake, that throuch the deal the NCB hope lo in crease the profitability of the pits by attack ing that very unity and strength that pat the miners in the driver's seat in the strug Mer against the Tory Govemment.
Indeed some miners will pet large wage target for 1985 is exactly the same Cies and pit closures And they should be told in October La weck later.
BOS MURPHY increases of up lo C12.5D But the incroass will he calculated on the bass of purput bi face-workers, which can difler by as much as Lout per man-shift one wock to 40 out die nest. And that in one pir Joggine the discrepancies berween pits with different poological conditions The Midlands. for instance, has far berler faces in general than Scolland. And the bulk of the rest of the men will pet bonuses calculated on the basis of 50 per cent of the face workers honus So the discrepancies will extend to diller Bat that'snot all. The NCB plans for coal production next year are 120 millico tons of deep mined coal The With an incicase in productivity this can nican only one thing - redundanPIT CLOSURES It's all very clear, it's the same old pol icy that ate away at miners standards of aring in the fifteen years after natsonalis alion. As Arthur Scarpiel, Prosident of the Yorkshire miners, said: The deal will divide miner in Yorkshire from miner in Lancashire it will divide miner in Doncaster Trom miner in Barosley; and it will divide miner from miner in Barnsley Itself.
The miners will pu to the polls twice they must reject the peo ductsity deal to be in the best sitantion autumn, to fight clichever Government is elected