NUM NEC declare strike action under Rule 41
8th March 1984
Why No Pit is Safe – The Miner, Special Edition, March 1984.
NUM press release, 8th March 1984, declaring strike action under NUM National Rule 41.
Cover of NUM National Rule book belonging to David Amos.
NUM National Rule 41: Strikes and lockouts.
NUM National Rule 43: National strike action.
The Fights On…and Heres Why – NUM Miner, Special Edition, March 1984.
Nottingham Area NUM – Minutes of a Conference of elected NUM Branch representatives, 10th March 1984.
‘No Area is safe, none will escape the MacGregor plan; Areas such as Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire, The Midlands, as well as Cokeworks, Transport Departments and the offices of clerical staff will be affected’. Source: NUM press release, 8th March 1984.
‘This Conference reaffirms its total confidence in the two Notts Area NEC members and that space be obtained in the ‘Scottish Miner’ and ‘Yorkshire Miner’ in order to express the Notts Areas contempt inflicted on the two Notts Area NEC members outside the NUM National HQ in Sheffield on Thursday, 8th March 1984′. Source: Nottingham Area NUM Minutes 1984, p.80.