NO RETURN TO THẺ 30 MARCH STOPALL CLOSURES AND REDUNDANCIES

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workers have not given up. to People this Now the youth have been the drawn into the struggle to save jobs. Miners and steelworkers are joining with young people and to launch a protest against the bosses' plans for South Wales. In The Times on 17 March, Bill Sirs said: objection to streamlining. have always done it on the basis. wastage year after Agony But protest insufficient - the death agony of Liverpool revealed that. Only direct action unions can turn the growing sense of outrage at the Tories policies for South Wales into a have no mass movement to stop them.

The South march is a small step towards LENS.

alone plant by the trade Wales youth VEDNESDAY 9tR APRI BSC Port Talbot.

Pat Sikorski was in Wales and spoke to him about the youth march Why are you going on the march? With the redundancies here and in antern South Wales, people through, of course.

youth How do you think the closures should be fought?

The jobs issue is a big thing down here in everybody's minds, but the leaders have not put it up alongside the pay fight in this strike.

The Wales TUC started to propose the action under pressure from the miners, Youth but this was called off because of the • CO 12 BOB TAYLOR is a weighman at What are your job prospects:

South straight away. against unthe pIocess September there'| be nothing lett in Section , especially for the young that's if the closures go weighman, union the Murrav TUC, and the other If the closures go through I'll be out I work on the quality control end of were told • or October that there wit be job losses on our section due to a modernisation programme.

There are three jobs on my section:

, furnace recorder and mill recorder plus one floating spare. I was the last floating spare to be appointed with no meal-time relief. The union has not fought to replace the jobs.

An arrangement was reached with mama cemen •LEE • strike, under which the jobs on our section would be taken over by a computer system leaving only the manual jobs.

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Annio Powell, Mayor of Rhondda Further Details: S. Wales Youth March Against Mount Pleasant. Swansea.

Chaddersley Terrace i'll be redundant within three months'