Fig 1: Nottingham Area NUM HQ at Berry Hill, Mansfield, during a Delegates meeting in the early part of the 1984-85 miners strike. Photo Credit – Chad newspaper.
NUM Special Delgates Conference, 19th April 1984.
On 12th April 1984, the NUM National Executive Committee called at Special Delegates Conference (SDC) which took place at the NUM National HQ, Sheffield, on 19th April 1984. The SDC ‘called on’ all miners to join the dispute.
Fig 2: Minutes from the Nottingham Area NUM Council meeting on 20th April 1984 regarding the previous days Special Delegates Conference at Sheffield. Source – Nottingham Area NUM minutes 1984, p.148.
Fig 3: Resolution from the NUM National Delegates Conference at Sheffield on 19th April 1984. Source – David Amos collection
Fig 4: Minutes from the Nottingham Area NUM Council meeting on 20th April 1984 regarding the previous days Special Delegates Conference at Sheffield. Source – Nottingham Area NUM minutes 1984, p.150.
Fig 5: Letter sent out to Nottingham Area NUM branches following the Area Council Meeting on 20th April 1984. Source – David Amos collection
“If you think at the back of your mind that a ballot vote will lose and you are urging your men to come out on strike, I think you are cheating on your membership…for the first time since 1926 we have had confrontations between miner and miner”. Bernard Donaghy, Lancashire Area NUM, at the NUM Special Delegates Conference, 19th April 1984.
“There is only one rule, in my view, above all rules in that book, and that is when workers are involved in industrial action, you do not cross picket lines under any circumstances”. Arthur Scargill, NUM National President, winding up at the Special Delegates Conference on 19th April 1984.