five or even ten years.
They experienced where the famous conditions were not nearly so bad.
memories of those days of devastation.
Wales they stand to suffer more than most.
THE efforts of the Tory government, which determined that those workers least able to defend themselves will pay most for the economic crisis, combined with those of the British Steel Corporation, which wants to make a quick ouck Taller unan save oos, are driving Welsh workers to the wall.
Twelve thousand steel jobs were due to go in South Wales by 31 March, but the angry response from Welsh workers has stay execution until August. Related But it doesn't stop at 12,000 steel jobs. Every job lost in steel will probably mean two three other jobs lost in related industry in South Wales. Even officials in the government's Welsh Office reckon that the steel cuts will lead to the loss of 50,000 jobs.
There are already 92,000 unemployed in Wales, and this could easily be swollen 125,000 by the end of the year.
Unemployment scale death for communities of south wales. The twin steel towns, fifty miles apart, OI Port Talbot Llanwern. dic particularly threatened.
Llanwern is a real steel town - it is only there because the steel plant is there. Like many of the steel towns in England — IN the 1930s there were men and women in the Rhondda in South Wales who were unemployed for hunger, poverty, humiliation that flows from them. Even in Jarrow, "30s hunger marches started, Older people in South Wales still weep at their Now the conditions of the '30s threaten to return to South Wales. As the crisis hits British industry all sections of the working class suffer, but in South Corby, for example — it was buit as a direct answer to the unemployment of the '30s.
Many workers Llanwern with the promise that at there was employment and prosperity.
But the Tories and don't care what people think about their lives: Quiet Port Talbot has been a steel or iron town for three hundred years, our now it too laces Ine slow death imposed by the crisis.
The people of these towns are not prepared to just sit quiet anu lel u nappen. ine. move towards a Welsh general strike earlier this •Cal militancy with which the people of South Wales are meeting the threat of unemployment.
The weak-kneed leadership of Len Murray and the TUC ensured that LETS came to nothing.
'natural wastage'
more youth without a future.
of South marching through the valleys to demand that deprived of a future.
workers not to sell jobs that the next generation of workers will need. They will be lending their energy and willingness to fight to the struggle communities of South Wales. They will 4CU0O closures and redundancies.
The march officially backed by the South Wales Mineworkers? execute. Dy National Union moved lo and by the Port Talbot strike stable wallice the march will be swelled by BSC apprentice who stand to suffer on the basis of 'last in first out?, and school students who want Jobs they • education.
Alliance This link unions South Wales is a step to the fighting alliance that can turn back the Tories' offensive and reveals the demand a workers' solution to the crisis.
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