volvement portant for women to organise. THE MAIN reason velallt involved In the miners wives support committee was concern about getting the families fed. But I also wanted to back the men on strike. It the men hadn't had that hacking they wille lave been driven back to work, which a few were beginn. ing to do.
We started a mother WedK ISOAION Women sitting at home worrving about the bills piling up and how to make the money go further. We made jokes about these things it relieved the tension.
Since then we've been Gul leat etting door door and collecting food. Women also speak at meetings which they have done HICVC before. Some of the women in the SUVOIU group work in the kitchen feeding the flying pickets who have stayed at Bold and Sutton Manor pits.
woher tave picketing only once so far, but we intend to do so again..
We have been in touch with women from other support groups locally, and now we have regula meetings with other loca groups. We have had a lot support Hemaes Greenham support groups. And we've been supported by women from LORRAINE JOHNSON is the wife of a miner at Bold colliery in Lancashire. Her involvement in the Bold miners wives support committee is her first inin political activity. She told CATH POTTER what the group is doing and why it's imthe Partv women's sections, Women must organised S0 that the things they are doing have more effect. They must organise to get support for the policies they believe in of women men. So women should have theil say and the right to decide Ol wilal lacy wall.
In the support group the way we organise. We just get on with it, and WHAT YOU CAN DO: • Publicity -branches, march and publicise it.
especially WOMCT sending messages of support. • Money the is needed now.
tion.
to: 'Women Against Pit SI 2EX.
Socialist Action 27 July 1984