RAIL WORKSHOPS THREE RAILWORKERS from HANDS OFF HANDS C RAIL RA WORKSI WORKSHOPS my members is at its ING MINERS members feel let down by WEDNESDAY 24 Ocford. The picket was by the support committees in Oxford the Thames Valley area.
After some pressure the sourn TUC miners' committee has backed the picket, and has considered plans picket Tilbury power station.
Since the NUM the dispute, picketed Didcot, one of the largest coal-fired power stations in southern England, quickly stopped all rail deliveries of coal.
However, recent weeks deliveries of oil have been going into the power годс :30-40 tankers a day. The station has been converted to burn oil and is now running 50-50.
for most of the summer, and was estimated to have only two weeks of coal supply working full capacity. The oil tankers which are unmarked non-union essential to keep the station running.
Oxford East Labour Party The NUM picket, miners Merthyr Vale, has so far been only token due to the distance from mining areas. But the South Wales Nur area executive decided to step up the pressure by calling mass picket and ap local movement.
A further aim of the picket is to put pressure on power station workers not to handle scab fuei in line with TUC policy.
There is an enthusiastic response the picket the Oxford labour coor dinated through the Ox. ford Council miners' support Thousands of leaflets icce were ACHES Ted transport organised.
Students starting col lege have been mobilised • last week over 300 at tended a miners' meeting University Labour Club and support groups are now established the Poly other university colleges.
College Student Union has not only organised transport for it own students, but has paid for an extra coach to bring South Wales miners to the picket.
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tober marked the first mass picket of Didcot power station near Ox-
called by South Wales NUM and backed