action and in and fight.
The possibility of immediate strike action very slim. An energetic public campaign is what's needed to the pit. And first we've got to get out the facts about the preSPenthiwceiher colliery. conditions Penrhiwceiber Lodge Committee (personal capacity)
Hearing that the pit is to close, people assume the coal there is exhausted or geologically unsafe to mine. If this was the case then the NUM would also be for closure.
The truth is that there are at least 30 years of seams that can easily be mined. The conditions of these seams, in the Coal Roards own words, good' and 'very good. Sc it is clearly a political decision, not an economic one, that has decided the future of Penrhiwceiber. The NUM is in full support of the lodge committee's decision to face of financial infight. The case will now go to national for their consideration.
We will go into review procedure with an extremely good argument for the retention of the col liery. But without outside upport this will fall on th leaf ears of Coal Boar management.
To bring to bear the pressure we need, we have o organise all the strength that was there in the strike That means support from women Against Closures, the support committees and so on. Once these forces organised the campaign can take off, with leafletting, petitions, meetings demonstrations.
Everything we can use in fact as against Hobart House.
That campaign is only just Bettie have to conground.
centrate fire first on the Valley. Once the valley organises, we cal take the campaign to the rest of the labour movement across Europe. in Britain
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THE MEMBERSHIP of Penrhiweeiber lodge NUM have voted overwhelmingly, by two to one, to fight to save their colliery. Even after 12 months of bitter
ducements from management in the form of redun- dancy pay, they are still people prepared to stand