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LABOR

~ Yorkshire miner Ian Ferguson called on
1,300 delegates to the B.C. Federation of
Labor convention Friday to “give so that

no miners’ family goes without at Christ-

mas; so that no miner’s child thinks that
Father Christmas has died.”

And give they did.

Ballot boxes for executive elections then
in progress were quickly turned into collec-

‘tion boxes and when the money was all

counted, the total was nearly $21,000.
And at the urging of UFAWU delegate
Elgin Neish — backed by a motion moved

by outgoing federation secretary Mike

Kramer and seconded by newly-elected
secretary Cliff Andstein — delegates voted
unanimously to instruct the federation to
match the collection dollar for dollar.

A few minutes later, IWA Local 1-85 .

delegate Nick Bos walked to the micro-
phone to pledge that his Alberni local —
long hard hit by unemployment — would
contribute an additional $1,000. UFAWU
secretary George Hewison followed with a
donation from the union of $1,000 and
CUPE B.C. Division president Owen Dyk-
stra called for a standing vote of his dele-
gates to add another-$2,000.:to the fund.

In all, some $46,000 will go to aid striking
miners.

$21,000 collected for NUM

The collection was part of a composite
resolution, unanimously endorsed by the
convention in response to Ferguson’s
address, which called on the federation to
“support actively the miners’ strike by
sending material support and messages of
solidarity to the NUM.”

It also urged the Canadian Labor Con-
gress “to make certain that no coal bound
for Britain leaves Canadian ports.”

“We're fighting a government that since
1979 has had as its objective the destruction

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IAN FERGUSON. . .Thatcher underestimated determination of strikers.

of the trade union movement,” Ferguson
told convention delegates. ““We’re fighting
not only for our own jobs but for future jobs
for miners’ sons and grandsons — and for
the future of the union.”

A 25-year veteran of the Yorkshire and
Doncaster mines and currently an executive
member of the Yorkshire NUM, Ferguson
said that the union has always taken the
position “that society owes us the right to
work for a living.

“That right is being dénied to us and to
thousands of others by the Thatcher
government — just as it is being denied to
thousands of workers in British Columbia,”
he said.

The particular significance of the miners’
strike he said, “is that Thatcher is prepared
to go to any lengths to defeat the British
miners.”

But she underestimated the determina-
tion of the NUM membership, he emphas-
ized.

Pointing to the recent offers of Christmas
bonuses to- miners if they would return to
work for four weeks, Ferguson said that the
National Coal Board “calculated that
Christmas would be the time to offer
inducements to miners”? to become scabs.
Full-page advertisements in all the national
newspapers were combined with “several
letters personally delivered to each and
every miner.”

He said that “some had accepted it” but
emphasized, “there has been no drift back

to work as the coal board hoped. There are.

still 140,000 miners on strike.

“They’ve failed in their efforts to break
the strike,” he declared.

Ferguson was given three standing ova-
tions by the convention delegates.

Citing the increasing hardship on miners
families “who have to face the prospect of

-winter with threats of having their gas and

electricity cut. off,’ he urged unionists to
donate as generously as possible and take
up the miners’ cause in their unions.

“We need money to ensure that miners
will see that others in the trade union
movement have not forgotten them,” he
said.

Donations to the British miners can be
sent to British Miners Solidarity, Van-
couver and District Labor Council, 206 - 33
East 8th Ave., Vancouver, V5T 1RS5.

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