Mineworkers Union and Scargill

[iwp.ilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (CEP )]

    Thank You for all the responses to my previous questions.  There
    is one, however, still unanswered.  I will request British comrades
    to address it, please.

    1. In 1987 I was told by a member of the Labour Party that the
    President of the British Mineworkers Union was elected "for life"
    and that the title was, more or less, inherited by another person
    once the President retire or quit or died.

    Until now, I received four answers to this questions:

    Three stated "I don't know about it"

    One stated: "I think the practice was somehow changed in the mid
    80s"

    The person who gave me the information in 1987 told me that several
    unions in Britain still have the policy of electing Presidents for
    life.  He explained to me that that was a leftover from feudal
    times. Kind of electing or appointing a King of a sector of the
    working class.  He told me that the procedure was never changed.

    Can anybody tell me, either by private mail or in the List if this
    procedure is still in place and in which unions.  I'm particularly
    interested in the Mineworkers union.

    This is an info a friend of mine needs to complete an article he's
    writting.  Thanks.

    Comradely,
    Carlos


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