From: Chris Skidmore, Yorkshire Area NUM Chairman, Higham, Barnsley.
I write in response to Jarvis Browning ‘No NUM Ballot’, TYP, March 15, and his query about ‘things being better with a ballot’? At least two National NUM conferences had voted in favour of strike action should collieries be closed other than on the grounds of exhaustion or safety, prior to the strike.
As someone involved and on strike, throughout, I would point out that the ‘ballot question’ is somewhat of a ‘red herring’, the original ‘hit list of pit closures employed a total of 3,611 men and women at the time no others were mentioned, we even had a letter from the NCB Chairman refuting the Pit Closure Programme? Taking it from another viewpoint, between August 1985 and December 1988 a number of collieries were closed in areas that demanded a ‘ballot’, a total of 15 from such areas as...
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