THE MEDIA NCB's back to work campaign total farce, but the backing it receives shows the urgent need of the government bosses to bring the miners' to an end.
In South wales organisation calling itself the Nationwide Miners Wives Back Work Movement has been active with a poster campaign. whit shows a donkey with Arthur scarojll's head.
But the movement is a failure. In the last week one man has been trying to cross the picket line in beowas, anu a meeling has been organised to pickelling stop him.
Abertillery pit was one of the last to come out on strike in South Wales, and a meeting of 250 was held to discuss a return to work, but only 12 miners voted for it.
Penrhiwceiber NUM The national organiser of the so-called 'nationwide movement' is a woman called Irene Kent. Last week the Echo revealed that she had been invo ved in break. ing a strike at the Cowley Oxford in (al 1974.
At that time her husband working Cowley. After the strike he left and immediate The down at Betteshangar was organised against his attempts to work.
Irene denies she has any big business backing and says she has built the movement over phone. She explained who appear on television or are in the papers with anti-strike sentiments'.
Her counterpart South Wales Sjaelberg from Beddau, who nas rerused lo appear in public without a representative of the sun newspaper.
Miners' supporters in South Wales are asking yuts tions.
How did Irene's husband get a job in the pits after leaving SUUI Cowley? How does Irene get the phone numbers of people the television ог papers'? will she pay her phone bill?
Who is paying for th poster campaign across the country? And who is paying to send outletters to every miner suggesting they return to work! THE ISTC'S STRIKE breaking at Hunterston Ravenscraig has highlighted the weaknesses of the Scottish trade union leaderships' strategy for the miners strike. TONY SOUTHALL looks at some of the lessons.
ed the first of the series of regional days of action in support of the miners. There was a mixed response but with strong support from public sector workers. All in all however it got solidarity action off to a good start and held escalate.
Large sections of the trade union movement in Scotland understood that the miners could not win alone that the stakes in the struggle involved the entire working But since that time the lack of a national lead coming out of the TUC has been accompanied by Scotland. reat deal of retoric but few proposals for sufficient action to bring the strike to speedy conclusion. The original deal negotiated by tne scotusn Num leader ship over Ravenscraig unincluded Arthur and Ann Scargill numerous Scottish trade union and Labour spokespersons. Boycott What is needed is not a march of unionists through Glasgow shopping centre, no matter what its value but stopping that scab coal getting to its destination Imoortant work has beer done in Glasgow raising £3.000 a week for • support for the miners. But mas pickets, actions to cut off Ravenscraig, and the decision to boycott coal are what is needed to win.
The Scottish dockers taking the lead in solidarity that can win. Now they have to have ef fective backing