Unity moves between Welsh miners and steelworkers

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Socialist Challenge 27 November 1980 'THE rumoured closure of a steel plant in South Wales would be devastating for Welsh pits,' said a miners' leader last week..

This was the Don Hayward, administrative otticer, to representatives of the Llanwern steel action group.

Earlier this year, the British Steel Corporation stopped WASA ROKN• COC Cllo or••o steel plant. A cut of almost a third in coking coal followed.

These are the harsh facts behind the unity now building up between The joint lobby of the TUC held this month was just a start. underway C••ll meetings, demonstrations, newsletters.

Miners and steelworkers are both campaigning for national industrial action against pit and steel closures.

message given by South Wales NUM ried out.

pits are axed. the of president production are shut.

and miners in Wales. and against Firefighters Talks are more joint and Ten Welsh pits are threatened with closure in the next 12 months, with a job loss of 7,600. The South Wales NUM executive has a clear mandate from miners for strike action as soon as these threats are carYorkshire NUM executive is campaigning for the same response from its members if the eight Yorkshire Arthur Scargill, Yorkshire NUM estimates that 25,000 pit jobs could disappear in Britain in the next two and a half years as 50 pits Waterworkers in Wales are planning strike action for a 35-hour week Tory restraint. civi servants are joining their English and Scottish sisters and brothers in strike action to break the 6 per cent pay norm.

Despite setbacks earlier this year, workers are rebuilding their confidence to take on the Tories with united industrial action. action against closures