The pits that will close | IMGpapers 1980

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1936: CYMPARC vlllagers pray for miners on a stay-down strike.

town fights for its future L'sion of Miners.

remaining two collieries Forking, I'se Merthyt and T:

closed down. Dai Coity Davies is the Corapersation Secretary of the Sonth Fistes Nationa The National Coa Board tas told is which collieries in oct area are ilkely to be ciosed dont.

It will mean the closure of the collieries in the Valley and the Aberdare Valley. Thos _ Penrhiwceiber ste.

izLE IxTE collieries in the Rhondia. Tse all te In the next valley to the Rhondda the Ogror, there is only one colliery, the Windham and Western. This is to be there employment for the miners. I be closed. in the Lynth alley, sy will be closed. In the Liynfi Valley John's and Coegnant are on the list for closure. Possible closures also extend to the Eastern Valleys, Monmouthshire, the Rhymney Valleys and the Western Valleys. Forty pits are open now, we Супоп BH nationalised, there wier:

Now there are forty.

The trading estates in female workers Our boys nave struggled to build their homes. Trans port costs out of the valleys are bigh Treforest and Bridgend are fully staffed, mainly with Fi hese valleys are going to be derelict if the cuts go through.

The Welsh executive of the National Union of Miners is committed to strike action against these cuts.