Directed Miners (Trade Union Membership)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 March 1947.

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Photo of Mr George Isaacs Mr George Isaacs , Southwark North 12:00, 11 March 1947

I understand that in some few collieries by agreement between the management and the National Union of Mineworkers, it is a condition of employment that the workers should be members of the union. Where in the past a man was directed into employment in one of these collieries and was unwilling to join the union, it was necessary to transfer him to another colliery where this condition of employment did not apply.

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