solidarity with the miners.
a day's pay to total 24 hour stoppages.
Among those to strike for the day were engineering union members from the giant Port Talbot steelworks. Their solidariwas enthusiastically recerved braking miners who have had bitter battles on the Port laibot picket line because of scabbing by the main steel union in the plant.
Railway unions blocked all coal movement into the Llanwern steelworks and dockers from Cardiff, Barry and Newport struck for the day.
Seafarers from the SS Mallin нете the following their rerusal to touch Ils cargo of imported coal.
Tinge were joined back contingent black seafarers from the Geest ships docked at the Cardiff port.
varment workers Irom Ebbw Vale joined workers trom the hoover plant in Merthyr Tydfil in CARDIFF city centre rang with the confident chant: 'We will win, we will win, we will win', as 10,000 workers marched on the 13 June Wales TUC day of In defiance of the T C general council, which declared the event unconstitutional, 250,000 Welsh workers took action on the day - from donations of La 24 hour strike.
By far the biggest and most colourtul came striking uniform. They were returning the solid support of miners given in the 1982 Ancilliary domestic staff from all the major hospitals in South Wales walked out for the day.
But pride of place went to the striking miners and EnCH Visiting miners from Leicester and Derovshire held their ban. ners high with those of all lodges the South Wales coal field. Banner after banner followed from the miner's wivesaction groups which are springing up across South Wales.
Speakers, Tony Benn and NUPE leader Rodney Bickerstaffe caught the MOOC defiance when they attacked the TUC central councl Bickerstaife declared: 'We NGA down anc that's why we're here 1oday. I don't care about the constitutional niceties the TUC. You were right to call this action today' Benn backed this by remarking that 'You don't take astand permission 10 have to ask Vigorous applause greed the morrise ene Harry Harris, GMBATU secretary that his conterence had voted to donate £1000 day to miners' strike funds. fighting spirit of the mar- Summing the ch, South Wales miners president Emlyn Williams stated: 'We will not be moved. I here is no ques tion but that we are going The closure plan is to win. dead and now the miners charter has to be resurrected.
As far as the miners are concerned ere witoe no compromise. Victory will oc tillal.
Socialist Action 22 June 1984