Miners' executive to discuss NCB losses

Workers Press no. 1069, 11 May 1973 · scan page 14

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THE MINERS' union is to call a special executive mr eeting to discuss the implicatir ins of a £69m loss which the National Coal Board expects to make this financial year.

•We fear we may be faced with the same type of heavy closure programme that us in the middle 1960s, laced Joe Gormley, NUM • president.

The EC turned down a YorkROYSTON BULL shire area request that the Board's decision to close Gomersal pit should be appealed. A Yorkshire motion for strike action to prevent the closure of the St John's pit, Normanton, was withdrawn by the area without discussion. • In Newcastle upon Tyne, James Sim, a miner who was dismissed by the NCB after his mates refused to work with him, was declared unfairly dismissed by an industrial tribunal and awarded £120 compensation.