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A thousand miners at Manton Colliery were persuaded to walk out by eight pickets from Frickley Colliery near Pontefract in South Yorkshire in a dispute over the new disclipinary code of conduct produced by British Coal. Interview with Frickley Colliery NUM spokesman Paul Hinchcliffe, Frank Underwood NUM secretary at Manton Colliery and John Burrows who is the North Derbyshire NUM representative. They said that the code of conduct was a return to non union days and a 'tugging your forelock' to the bosses system. Shots of pickets outside Manton Colliery. Exterior NUM North Derbyshire headquarters and shots of national executive leaving building after a meeting. Shot of sign for Manton Colliery.
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