are supporting their union. THE STRIKE is about pit closures and or come re We want shut of him. saw what he did to steel workers British Leyland before that.
We want to stop. pit closures because British deep-mined Coal the cheapest in the world. It's cheaper to keep pits open than put people on the dole We believe we've got a future. Mathieg ors ironic MacGregor wants to tell miners of 21 younger that they haven't. But the strike's 00 I really Started ye we've still got to get Not and Leicestershire out Young miners are playing a big role a role nobody believed they'd play. But now it's come to fighting, they're fighting hard. They've realised that survival is at stake.
In my pit the youth are out picketing On the whole, the pickets going out are relatively young They believe if they don't SPEAKERS INCLUDE ACRE LANE SW2 YOUNG MINERS have been prominent on the picket lines during the dispute, despite speculation that they would not favour industrial action to protect their jobs and their future. STUART BOR. THWICK, of Conisborough pit near Doncaster is the first youth representative in any Yorkshire pit He told Socialist Action why so many young miners strike they'll be on the dole. And the youth in Notts have started to come out too The problem they're threatened with the union isn't backing lem up If we were on the dole it would make Thatcher's life easier. If everybody is under her : thumb they're easier to handle. Her calling for a ballot is the best reason for not having one you know then there must be something wrong with it.
Why should we have a ballot when two-thirds of the British mining industry is out? It's up to us to ge the rest out. Nobody star ding in their little corner with a little piece of paper and a pencil is telling me l can't have my job back at the the majority don't majority want a ballot. It's onlv thi minority who do. If we don't strike, if we don't icket, if we don't suppo le union now — we'll a be on the dole.
South London Labour Movement RALLY THE Wednesday