The 14 to 12 vote of the National Union of Mineworkers" executive to recommend nonacceptance of the Coal Board's productivity deal hus created consternation in the ruling class and amongst the Labour The NCB chief negotiator Mr N. Siddall said he was "bloody staggered'. Derek Ezra. chairman of the NCB, talked about the two sides miners. and management heading for another clash on wages Alter Gormley's references to Communist Party influence and the comments of Len Clarke, right-wing president of the Nottinghamshire miners, that *the Communists and the Marxists nave no intention of having an agreement the press gecfully jumped on the redparine bandwagon.
REJECTING The Sunday Times in a long editorial hoped that the miners would "have little difficulty in rejecting the advice of their execalive and accepting the Hoard's proposals, The Financial Times bluntly admits that: The Government's policy is to divide and rule and rejection of the deal would maintain the national cohesion and strength which the miners have built up.
Ben Ford, Labour MP. for Bradford North speaking for Labour's right wing, denounced Arthur Scargill, the Yorkshire miners' leader, He said his industrial actions are dictated by his political behefs. Ford in his witchunting diatribe ignores the fact that Scargill has the unanimous support of the recently held Yorkshire Miners" Council Scargill has correctly dencunced the social contract. Living in a capitalist society one has to apprutive to reject the productivity deal.
coate that you don't ger better wages and conditions by heig patriotic Scarpill and the other militants are absolutely correct to use industrial action to fight Labour's social contract. The political aint of the social contract is to lie the working class to the bankrupt, inflationwracked economy al Aritish capitalian It that happens then working class hing standards will be driven down by the employers and stace.
Fad Weekty 7 November 1974 The British educational system is an unholy mess. Schools are short of teachers, buildings are falling down, local authorities arating bankrupt. People are asking what is happening in cdLike all other sectors, education is being hit by inflation. Education estimates for this year allowed for a 7.5 per cent rate of inflation. In fact it has soared beyond 17 per cent.
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