IT IS unlikely that the miners in South Wales will wait until 10 March the date set for the Welsh general strike - to begin all-out action over jobs.
South Wales NUM is to hold a special area conference on 20 February to consider whether to begin strike action on Monday next, February.
The reason for the conference is a decision by the Port Talbot strike committee that there should be no return to work at the steel plant until they are given job security.
Conference Last weekend the Llanwern strike committee urged that jobs should be made an issue in the steel strike. This nor means it is likely conference will the recommendation from their executive tat a South Wales should begin on 25 February.
Twenty thousand steelworkers at Port Talbot and Llanwern redundancy in the cutbacks proposed by the Steel Corporation, would lead to the loss of 15-16,000 jobs in the local coal industry We've been pressurised by our own members to press action, says Don Hayward, South Wales NUM's administration officer. 'Our task is to join the steelworkers. We can't wait until 10 March.
This determination to ensure that in action over jobs is coupled with the present steel strike will be bad news for the TUC, which has been doing its best to delay general strike in Wales.
Decimation Having already postponement from the original date mid-January, secretary Len Murray persuading his counterpart Wales TUC George Wright, that the problem of the decimation of jobs and communities should be left to negotiations with the government.
Last week's hint by Sir Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the government might be willing to speak to the TUB about the steel corporation's plans was greeted by Len Murray with the announcement that he took such moves seriously Murray Wales TUC to call off its conference scheduled for 27 February, at which plans for the general strike are to be discussed.
their action on 25 February, Murray and the Wales TUC leadership will have their time cut out trying to restrain other workers from joining •We will be calling on all other unions to back the action by the steelworkers and miners', says Don Haywood.
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