MASSIVE 10,000 demonstrated in Port Talbot, Thursday support striking steelworkersg As well as the strikers themselves there were miners. ral and transport workers, delegations from the Labour Party and Сутги, workers and building workers. The whole area came to a stop for the morning.
The 200,000 who took part in the Wales general strike on 28 February show the depth of the feeling about Tory plans to lengthen dole queues in: Wales. Support for all-out indetinite strike action against steel closures on March overwhelming. question now being asked is: what is the British TUC up to?
Slow ine answer nasn t Deen sow coming. The leaders of the TUC are. running round trying to get 10 March Cilen off. the CUSY Congress House they do not welcome the UI US DCCL thousands of people against the Tory government.
Wales ..the had to But as General _bakke George Guy Platitudes But The little time for such sentiments.
our families believe platitudes', he said.
in world of catastrophe to constitution.' of hundreds of workers strike Their attitude was summed up at chelast meeting of the TUC general concil. Some members said that the "take the reins' and control the militancy shown in Wales.
Council member was reported to have remarked, 'If they take the reins they will have to ride the bloody horse. They can't take it back to the stable.
at the Port Talbot rally Emlyn Williams of the South Wales National Union of Mineworkers had *When the right to work and right to bring up is threatened I don't day •ELME and 'As far as I'm concerned we should not be channelled into a cul-de-sac by the constitution of this or that part of the movement. When it comes to a Shell the THE Tories' "entition to fob losses in Wales is a body called the Welsh Devele ment Agency. A further grant bO EWDA ofg $48 million bäs just been announced. But that's a drop in the ocean.
Two ye rs ago the WDA was given £12 lion to cover the johs lot in s eel clostres at Ebbw Vale and E Moor in Cardiff.
A5 many were planned. Bu these, it was estimated, anly offer a KUH OSN As it is, t of these factories bave to be buit. In Cardiff, ever ere these plants do operate те яге jobs for only 1,100 workers. On these figures, an ig inflation into account, tt st grant to the WDA wil BrOVide & MOxHAOM of only 8,000 On 27 February the Welsh TUC meets. The miners shoutd take their arguments about the future of Wales to every steelworker; every docker, every railwayworker and lorry driver in Wales.
George Wright, Secretary of the Wales TUC, must not be allowed to back down on 10 March as he did on 21 Januarv. the pressure of the British TUC and refused to call an indetinite generai strike in Wales. Fighting Catastrophes need to be organised against. For the would mean fighting for a national meeting of strike committees to ward off any sell-out attempt. For all trade unionists in Wales it means insisting tnal tere de no backtráckmng on te demands for a general strike, and for spreading beyond DOLOCS Socialist Challenge supporters will campaigning labour movement for both the British anolehearted backing to the stand of the Welsh miners on 10 March for a general STEKE offensive. The feeling is there. So let's organise it.
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