ROGER TOVEY, blast
furnace worker, Llanwern: for here is the future of WHAT we are fighting the commuuulty South Wales and the people of South Wales must take the lead in that fight whilst canvassing support other That's why the strike on January is important.
People are nervous about taking on the government but British or Weish industry from the effects of this crisis challenging the dictates of the drive for profit.
The ruling class has shown how Clever It IS at dividing labour movement in the fight against redundancies in the Corby and Shotton remained isolated so they lost the battle.
The Welsh TUC is demanding a stay of execution for the steel plants, investigation into our only The Llanwern steel.
subsidised steel. co-operation won't operate unless CLULUHIL without of foreign workers.
steel industry Tories who defend jobs as backward, against change.
the BSC rather than on of the pits that could close weapons our numbers and our organisation.
workforce young and it wants to produce We must press to subsidise either steel or coal like they are doing in other EEC countries, and load British Steel plants fully and restrict the import of My personal opinion is that with & Labour government you only get the same medicine as the Tories in smaller doses.
As long as political poweris in the hands of the business and financial institutions there's no going find to solve the problems of the steel industry - for instance, micro-technology. A shorter working week will winto pree morens and allowed we change the and politicall and an investigatiot into imports and import controls. It conia ena wo Isolaung brusn sucer workers and miners by demanding job protection for them at the expense This plays into the hands of the portray the struggle to insular, Tariff barriers encourage brush workers to place their future alongside British bosses workers other om the USA countries.
The Tories are serying the interests of capitalism worldwide assault on our living standards and rights.
The British labour movement has to break with its nationalist traditions to resist this assault.
Workers in Britain and internationally have no interest in opposing the introduction of new technology as long as these changes can be used to improve conditions. Labour, capital, produces the profits out of which these changes are financed, so why on earth should workers accept any SCOTCHC all? changes could be used to shorten the working week, through worksharing, rather than to make redundancies. Ruthless When Welsh miners argue for a subsidy it should be based on this argument, to defend workers' living standards and jobs, not to protect British bosses' profits.
miners could widen their support if they used these arguments because it shows how a united assault on Tory unemployment policies could begin. It's not just Welsh workers who face the workers throughout Britain and the wester world The common interests of workers - for a decent living standard and a shorter working pitted against the ruthless drive of capitalism to sack workers as soon as profits fall. Regional, national and international solidarity is the key, not protectionism. their Steelworker RAY DAVIES, steelworker, Llanwern:
YOUR strike is about th - dignity of the steelworl ers and justice.-Two years ago we gave 5 per cent our income back to the nation when we accepted less than the going rate. Last year we accepted 8 per cent when everyone else was getting 15 per cent.
We've given management co-operation, even to losing 40,000 jobs, but we're nọt going to go on our knee and grovel. BSC seems to hav the opinion that we're a weak force because we've co-operat. ed in the past.
Now we've been forced to fight back. This is why the strike is about justice and thi digrity of the steelworket, If we win on pay we'll be in a position tolfight to keep the steel industry in South Wales The government is a tragedy of monumental proportions as far as the people of South Wales are concerned, and we're going to need not simply regionat but and solidarity to avoid y becoming isolated.
Docker DOCKERS at Newport quayside:
- No plckets are neede • here because none of th dockers will touch the two ships with the coal for Llanwern.
think the dockers should support the miners even if they're the only ones who are to take on the government over jobs. The miners are taking a stand and they hope everyone else will come behind them.