Total stoppage in South Wales | IMGpapers 1980

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CLOSE THATCHER NOT THE PITS and Barry Wilkins 'WE ALL want this to be a repeat 1974 - the start of a movement to out the Tories.

That's the shared view of Price, and John McCann colliery, Maesteg in South Wales.

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Wales Monday:

Troops he said, the Brynlliw-Morlais pit near WICH threatened by the South Wales NUM was obliged to bring forward its area conference to last Monunanimousiv to orine out all 26,000 South Wales miners the next morning Emlyn Williams, South miners oresiden old his area conference o There is no roor Our dirt thar go back to work before the closure threat is lifted.

might be used, but We have to fight and fight hard even if fighting Coal emolovmen else in South Wales.

South Glynneath jobs; nia in Gwen The 2,885, threat withdrawn'