AS IT becomes clearer that this could be a very long strike, committees are being set up across the coalfield to organise hardship relief and soup kitchens.
In a an act of material solidarity Mid Glamorgan and Gwent County Councils are keeping schools open six days a week auring the holidays to provide Sanke children.
councillor Len Jones an NUM official at Maerdy said:
"The strike is beginning to bite and many families are coming to me unable to meet mortgage and hire purchase repayments because their savings are gone. It's beginning to get o it save WHere some miners and their families are feeling real hardship'.
Over a thousand suDPort Tabor hast Proday Talbot with NUR AUEW delegations prominent.
At the rally Ray Powell MP for Ogmore pledged the support of the local But NUM leader Terry Thomas asked Ray Powell Shadow Welsh Minister, Ted Rowlands, to take back the Parliamentary Party asking the shadow cabinet backbench MPs to bring their support behind the strike.
Derek Gregory NUPE attacked HenDers H ales TLC who have their heads in the sand over the strike. NUPE proposing the Wales TUC conference calling for them organise solidarity inaction with the NUM.
Anger at police activities continues. Last week five miners (wm colliery were rested for distributing boscene. sellous or inciting literature' on a Vottingham housing totalt The leaflet question consists of a quote about scabs from Jack London's book Revolution.
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