AGAINST UNEMP 19135 ran hunger marcher, spoke at the LTES south wales NC oturn ICK OUT ES TOP Br GENERAL STRIKE Michael Davies, Treorchy is 18 I'VE been out of work for about a year now. I did do a labouring job for about 6 months with a local builder, but I had to have an operation so I lost the job. Lots of my Treorchy. They've closed pits round our way and there's no other work We've got a sort of regional aid grant, and they built some factories but most of them are empty term - things like biscuit manufacturing, not like the pits. I think the way to end unemployment is to cut hours and share out the work. And I think older people should retire earlier so the youth can get jobs.
Martin Morgan is a school student from Pentre in the Rhondda Valley I CAME on the march out of interest really. I can't stop unemployment myself but I'll do anything I can to help - like going on demonstrations asking the unions to take action. If I can't get a job, in say 6 months after I leave school, then I'll probably have to join the forces Tracy Jones is 15 and a school student from Port Talbot.
I'M marching because I don't agree with what the Tories are doing. I want to go to Art College when I leave school but I don't think there's much chance of that.
Dawn is a school student in Port Talbot. She's 16.
I'M marching because I'm leaving school and I won't be able to get a job. demonstrate and build a united front against the Tory cuts in education and in everything else. My father's a miner and he thinks we should have a everybody should have been on strike in solidarity with the steel workers. But now the IST executive has sold them out. They betrayed the workers.
it for four months.
trouble with the friends are unemployed in families.
beat us up ones nave to go school to bust up their club.
We've got to against the Tories. He says They were sold out. Anthony. Blenmen, Bute Town, Cardiff, 15 I CAME on the march because there's no jobs Those that work round our way are mostly on the docks. My old man is a merchant seaman but I don't want to do that because I'd have to get my afro cut.
If you are in the merchant navy you have to sign on a pool when you haven't got a ship. You can claim cole. oecause h you do uncy lake you off the pool. At the moment there are 300 people on it in Cardiff. My old man was on Texaco oil tankers, but when he came home they sold his ship so he had to leave. Nov he's been on the poo without work for two months. Last year he was on We thought it was great them throwing the police out of St Paul's in Bristol. Some people from Bute Town went down there. We got a lot of Everyone I know has been in nick. The majority of Nobody down there is ecause there are so many mixed some places in Cardiff we can't go, because people are racist and they try to But Bute Town is great — it's not dead like th valleys. There's always something music, people dancing and that. many fights because the women run And the women in Bute Town are very big, and they are very strict. But if anybody starts trouble we can look after ourselves.
Alison is 15 from Cardiff I'M marching because it's a good way of showing that there is opposition to the Tories' policies. The Tories' cuts are making things worse for unemployed people. So I'm marching to say the Paul Ford from Bute Town is 15 and still at I'VE come on the march to help kick Maggie out. I nate tne tories and nate Maggie. everyone roune our way votes Labour and wants the Tories out.
I thought Bristol was great. Standing up for themselves against the police. I hate the police. We just get picked on by them, especially if we go break into this or that lady's house and they shove us back over the bridge to the docks, so l can understand why they took them on after they tried Joe is at school in Treorchy I'M coming on the march because when I leave school all 1 face is the dole. I've got no job prospects in Treorchy. I think it would have helped if the steelworkers had had more support. They should have got their 20 per cent with no strings Socialist Challenge 10 April 1980
'STUDENTS unions have got to have the courage to decide functions of NUS are and conversely what they are not. At the moment NUS does too many things, organises the primary too many SM gathering. The unemployment, particulars)
are on the agenda.
The Left Alliance can see the storm clouds government attacks. on overseas students. the decline in the real value or the grant redundancies, • youth further restrictions on access to women working class youth, cuts, attacks on student union autonomy and the local campaigns for disaffiliation are a clear indicanon or tne major snowdowns tna
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