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self who threatened the Windscale workers, on strike in 1978, with court action?
' CAMPAIGN Despite the short-sighted attitude of the TUC, however, there are signs that opposition is growing in the labour movement to the leaders' short-sighted views. The Yorkshire area of the NUM - led by Arthur Scargill - has come out ag ainst the nuclear strategy and offerred an alternative based on coal. lear Alliance.
Party, la bour movement. Workers power. Last April, over 200 activists gathered at a rally in Cardiff to launch the Welsh Anti-NucPresent were representatives from anti-nuclear groups, the Ecology Plaid Cymru and the Discussion centred on government plans to site nuclear plants in North Wales. These plans would not - it was argued - bring jobs to unemployment black spots but actually replace workers in labour intensive industries.
Ernie Roberts (Vice President of Plaid Cymru) actually quoted government docum• tracks. ents to show how nuclear plants were to be used as a weapon to erode the militantcv of strong unions such as the miners or electricity Other speakers concentrated on the dangers of nuclear Jonathon Porrit Party) stressed that there was 'no such thing as the peaceful use of the atom', Rogers, Euro-MP for South Wales, Backed him up by ask. ing: "If nuclear power stations are so clean, why build them away from large urban centres - why not build them in Battersee, Whitehall or the gardens of Buckingham Palace"
Rogers went on to call for a mass campaign of civil disobedience - similar to those that have arisen on the continent -as the onlv wav to stop the governments programme in its The meeting eventually passed a motion opposing nuclear power stations in Wales - and we came duced waste - and set up a delegate conf erence for June to decide upon the structure of an ongoing