defeat. We will lose our self-respect.
It looks like the national execuuve or isie Is running down the strike until the final betrayal. Money has been cutback for flying pickets to go to places like thé docks.
Locally, the strike committee is cutting down on pickets, food, and transport. This assumes the strike will be Over, evel exe inquiry ee to before inquiry results This is bloody ridiculous. Dockers are prepared to strike we expect them to support us hen they see us withdrawing pickets from the docks?
Action The dockers action snows that we are not fighting the jobs issue alone.
we shouldn't misunderwhat happened when the voted calls L strike action on jobs. In the frst fortnight of our strike the oars couldn't wait to come out with us.
Then the Wales TUC kept acialist Ch де 3 Ареї 1980 Works, Port Talbot to stay out whatever the results of the inquiry.
will soon be out of a job.
week and voted to stay out.
and begging Moors.
low the only prospect these workers have is a dole queue of our union officials are saying. the loss of jobs - — before it's too late. WE HAD a mass meeting in Port Talbot at the end of last week. Of the thousand craft members present, 950 voted We won't return to work until the jobs question is settled. At the mass meeting the proposer of the motion against a return to work looked round and said: 'If we go back now, half of you The National Union of Blastfurnacemen in Port Talbot has already said there will be no return without a settlement on the jobs issue. The ISTC in the hot-sheet section had a meeting last The staff unions have also met and taken the same position - they are not prepared to accept the results of the inquiry Eve accept the inquiry we don't stand a chance of keep jobs. It'll be no good going cap-in-hand later on, scrap We have to draw the lessons of Shotton, Corby, and East If these plants had come out on strike the minute they were threatened with closures things would be different today. But It's no good askine for tine to absorb the iob losses, as som We have to fight now against They have said to the re-elated if you sell us short executive will never in the strike Monday's. meeting we should set up a committee This should have representa tives from all the steel unions affected by closures, such as the NUM, transport, and the docks.
We must also make links with Port Talbot. If alvidea among ourselves.
must learn tragedies and Ebbw Vale.
RAY DAVIES Struggle 'We've been all over the place We've been Hadfields and Sheerness. In Stockbridge we have a lot of working maustry, so tnere snould be e lot of us out picketing.
SUE the omen who emer importance involving women in the strike: 'When before, I was at home feeling isolated. I wasn't aware wial was going on. so 1 salc to myself, why don't Change NOT ONE of them turned round and said: "Can you make the sausages for te. Crane COmI about through us all working together on the strike.'