8. Glossary
ACAS
Advisory
Concilation and Arbitration Service
Area
The subdivision of the National Coal Board. "For seven years the pits in Northumberland and Durham were grouped as three Area formations but in 1974 they were
merged into the present single North East Area. " (G. L. Atkinson: 19)
ASLEF
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
bait
An expression of the North East
miners for the food they take underground. Dave Douglass: "I suppose the only equivalent in standard English is 'lunch' but workers don't eat lunch (a petty bourgeois concept) and bait is hardly the same as
dinner. " (D. Douglass 1975: 304) It usually consists of sandwiches with jam or just butter.
Baldwin, Stanley
British Conservative statesman prime minister in 1923-24 1924-29 1935-37.
CEGB
Central Electricity Generating
Board
CND
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Cook, Arthur James (1885-1931)
General Secretary of the Miners Federation of Great Britain during the miners' lock-out of 1926
DHSS
Department of Health and Social
Security
face or coal-face
The place in the mine where the coal is hewn in a coal seam; the very extremity of a coal-mine
gasey
In coal-mines methane often
pours into the passages and seams and the mine is in danger of explosion
ISTC
Iron and Steel Trades Confederation
Lodge
The local branch of the NUM
MacGregor, Ian Kinloch (b. 1912)
After spending 40 years in the USA where he headed several companies and became infamous for his anti-union policy he became non-executive director of British Leyland in 1975 in 1980 he became chief executive of the British Steel Corporation and in 1983 chairman of the NCB
MFGB
Miners Federation of Great
Britain
MMC
Monopolies and Mergers Commission
MORI
Market and Opinion Research Institute
NACODS
National Association of
Colliery Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers
NCB
National Coal Board. Renamed British Coal in 1985
NEEB
North East Electricity Board
NUM
National Union of Mineworkers
NUR
National Union of Railwaymen
NWAPC
National Women Against Pit
Closures a national organisation "bringing together all the support groups. - In August 1985 about 1000 women gathered in Sheffield for its first conference. "(A. John 1986: 93)
Pit-head
The overground area of a
colliery
Scargill, Arthur (b. 1938)
He was the son of a miner and became a miner himself at 15. In 1969 member of the Yorkshire NUM executive since 1981 president of the NUM
SEAM
Save Easington Area Mines
Spencer, George
After the 1926
miners' lock-out Spencer Labour MP set up a breakaway union the Nottinghamshire and District Miners' Industrial Union which rejoined the MFGB in 1937
Surface
The overground area of a
colliery
TGWU
Transport and General Workers Union
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, MP
At the time Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister since 1979
(re-elected in 1983 and in 1987)
TUC
Trades Union Congress
UDM
Union of Democratic Mineworkers. The breakaway union formed in 1985 in Nottinghamshire
WAPC
Women Against Pit Closures
Working Men's Club
"The
central leisure institution of the Durham mining community [. . . ][] a co-operative society for the sale and consumption of beer [. . . ]. In some respects it resembles a pub [. . . ]. Clubs are owned and controlled by their
own members and the facilities are exclusive to those who are members and their guests. " (M. Bulmer 1978 c: 31)
WSG
Women's Support Group.
