AS THE MINERS' strike goes into its tenth week support committees across South Wales. Now virtually every lodge has a women's committee.
picketing.
Foods, Swansea Hirwaun small mining community not far trom Aberdare, where the Tower colliery is the chief employer. Women there have been doing about 110 food parcels a week.
One of them Barbara Taylor, explained: 'We're irving to make sure that everyone gets eggs child meat. egg per give out SOlIC parcels without either.' But this isn't all they're doing. 1 welve the women came to Labour terence Swansea and spoke at a Labour Briefing social and to the conference.
At a social in Hirwaun organised by the lodge club women explained: 'We've got lo get rid of that Thatcher. She's no TOT people. She's tried to grab back everything WC VC gained. And Neil Kinnock will have to get off the fence if he's going to be of any use to us.
Last week women from Maesteg were picketing, the Margan entrance to the Port stcciwolk.. Women Hirwaun went up to the Point of Ayr or Point of Shame it is known attempt to stop the 60-odd still colliers WIlU al c working At Point of Ayr the received trom HOLICHI the police: 'Welsh slags' monkeys' were the taunts.
One man told us that our mouths made up for our said Barbara Tavlor. But despite this women will be going back.
are springing At first these were seen as simply providing a WeeK special women's picket is planned women health workers.
The local leadership of the NUM has backed the women, * we president of the food parcels the South tomas. vice president Wales NUM, was asked what hethe unhe women joining pickets: 'I'm all for it', he said, 'We couldn't survive without the support of the women.' Hopefully the NUM backing will be extensed and we'll see more women on NUM platforms. sexism on picket lines and demonstrations MUSL publicly challenged. In Mansfield were chanting the rughy song: 'Get your tits out for the boys. This is hardly the way to win women's support for the strike The Tories want to weaken and divide us. If the strike is to be won it is vital that the NUM does not play into their hands.
MacGregor watch out! The women's army is marLAST Saturday the convoy to Kent. South East London organised a 'food convoy for the Kent miners. Women from the local unemployed centre had been centrally involved in getting the food collecTricia, one of the Kent miners' wives, explained how, on the Friday before, she had been involved with women from the local urea in going into the local Coop to spend £2500 on food. In the end 500 vehicles were involved in
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welfare service, but now many of the women are ac- tively spreading the strike and getting involved in
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