IF the Tory government has its way South Wales will be farced to return to the 1930s. people left Wales steel industry, which accounts for the jobs of one in ten people in Wales, an unemployment rate of 12 to 15 per cent is again being predicted.
and Cuts in steel mean cuts in mining, rail transport, throuch engineering firms.
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Then, half a milion search of Today, with the rundown in the small This is why the labour movement in Wales is preparing to take on the January, TUC have the largest concentration of steel workers in the British Isles. The normally co-operative steel workers have been trodden are just flex their muscles in striking to defend their standard of thousand SUIKEIS reported on Monday to mount mass pickets on the private steel plants al The stand of the steel workers over miners, railwayworkers After a decade of lost battles to save Ebbw Vale, East Moors, Shotton and Corby the Tories are hoping that will for "cut. and coal But in attacking the steel industry in South Wales the Tories have come an and VALERIE They know tha united led by steelworkers and demanding that jobs come first will stand a good chance success. The labour movement should back them to the hilt in their fight to But George Wright, Secretary of Trades Union Congress, says that he is not in favour of no redundancies': cuts are 'because modern industry demands change'. He also strongly urges the government to look, into import controls as a long tern solution to the problem of Welst We think that his views are fathe Closures in steel and mines are du economi recession and the massive technica that are underway It is not possible to protec