ON Wednesday 9 April, the final leg of the South Youth March Unemployment will set Pontypridd, following the River Taff down through Taff Vale until it passes Transport House, headquarters the TUC in Cardiff.
In the build up to the march, have distributed to young people along the route of the march. explains why young people should uncertain terms, be there:
ooo sanders are comna fo get the hot end of the poker they leave school. Redundancies in SuCC Industry will mean less mining jobs as demand for drops; shop choloyment disappear Inere Will money to buy luxury commodities; eventually, much industry in South Wales will go...
Lots of school students that we spoke to read the tront of the shoulders. T'm shruthered", said shrugged one, I'll just stay on at school and then go to college." But the leaflet, produced by Cardiff Revolution Group, points out the hitch in this •Less jobs means that people stay on at school into sixth university and college; this means competition ICWCI successiul applications And as education spending is being future isn't very bright for anyone.
Pontypridd itself, people nodded their support when we told them that the march was coming through their town. Cafe owners and record shop assistants agreed to advertise the march customers, young and old.
newsagent's said inside all the music press! Even the YMCA warden said that she'd give some out at the Friday night dance.
the schools as well. It's a steep climb up school, under the railway and across the bus station. The retired miner who had offered to show us the way walked slowly his laboured breathing telling of years spent in the pits.
Wales 'The. lories. pushine a too against • nave a bloody out their hands if they're not careful.' The driver which ferries students back up into the valleys was just as enthusiastic. the He let us on the bus to leave leaflets on the seats for after school.
when school came everyone wanted to know what was been coming, going on. wich the film County about. interested to find out that the South water NUM Executive and Port Talbot strike committee were supporting Mal Cu when more impressed when we told them that it most of the work for it.
Lots of people said that they'd coal tell their friends about it. No one WilL said anything against the march.
unemployment and the steel strike was most cleariv expressed wnen went Io leaflet Splottland.
The local school was opposite the GN factory, strikers from Llanwern were down picketing the factory. They more ted ur with standing salta an hend privet overal sailed hundred workers working after voting to return to work two weeks ago.
But they still gave a rousing response to our news about youth march. As one of them said, We're fighting for our kids' jobs as well as our own'.
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Wales will be showing that they're fighting too, for their jobs and for their parents' jobs the march can show schoo students, apprentices and youth on The dole that there possibilities of getting together to tignt for what they need That's the sharpest plus for supporting the YOUL through the valleys this Easter. The youth march is really going to stir things South Wales. We want to jog the TUC into doing something about redundancies. As the leafiet savs 'This is the beginning, not the end!' See you on the march.
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