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Socialist Challenge 10 January 1980 P Africa Ireland and nor for the are beili irring involved in more ALL OUT 21 JANUARY should subsidise our coal. first step to total closure.
Steel at Llanwern.
alone last year!
A LICTE we want 10 - 66 The British Steel Corporation is importing coal from the USA at a rate of £10 a tonne cheaper than South Wales coal. If this continues then many collieries in South Wales may close. What we're saying is that as all coal industries in other countries are subsidised - in Germany it's 29 times more than our coal industry — so the government South Wales produces the best coking coal in the world. We're members of the EEC and our industries should get the same subsidies as other EEC countries. Just before Christmas the government and BSC decided to cut back at Port Talbot and Llanwern steelworks. At least 15,000 redundancies are expected. The steelworkers action is understandable with the insulting offer of 2 per cent, but I'm of the opinion that the offer was designed to take the minds of the unions off jobs. Partial closure of the steel mills now is the The two ships in Newport Docks are being blacked by dockers. They contain coal produced in America by scab unions [many American miners are on the dolel. The NCB has recently agreed to allow five million extra tonnes of coalinto South Wales through Newport Docks to besold to the Electricity Board, but the unions have not agreed to allow the coking coal in these particular ships to be imported by BSC to produce BSC are quite happy to see 10,000 tonnes of Welsh coal going to the floor each week. In fact they're making new contracts for cheap foreign. coal so I can see all of the coal we produce going to the floor. We're only asking for £33 million to subsidise our coal to make it competitive and the Tories refuse to do it. Yet BSC paid out £138 million in interest rates This is the biggest issue ever faced by South Wales. The National Union of Railwaymen handles 35 million tons of freight for mining. The Coal Board spends £55 million a year on purchasing goods. Small engineers, hauliers, coal merchants will lose their jobs. £500,000 in rates to Newport. Every Welsh family will be affected think it will become a national issue in mining — coal imports can close pits in Kent, Durham, Staffordshire and Northumberland.
Margaret Thatcher wouldn't get four votes here if she stood in an election. How can she spend £9,000 million on armaments and refuse us £33 million to protect jobs? Either we sit back and take it or we stand up and be counted. We're taking strike action and we're calling for a national delegațe conference in the NUM. about 30,000. We're fighting for the younger generation, redundancies mean selling jobs. We're going to strike and picket where - the Tories are going to have to put 30,000 miners in jail # they think they can stop us. The difference between the situation here and the situation in the steel community in Corby is that everyone is involved. — dockers, miners and railwayworkers — and we're going to win.
. Llanwern pays : were 107,000 miners in South Wales. Today there are voluntary