Delegations of miners women against closures Scotland.
North South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, South Wales and South Staffordshire took the meeting.
Coln ofLancashire come out first included:
10TL Lorraine Lancashire, Wales, alongside Action colnuiltee Kipp Dawson a up the message which Walle o1 the discussion: 'We've learned how to walk and we're not going to crawl again.' The second session dealt with the lessons of the strike. It was introduced by THERE ARE only thirstriking in Leicesterhire - and a magnificent thirty they are too. I've got 100 members in the NUR, and 60 of them are involved in the action.
We've forged with the striking miners. So you've got just 90 men holding production of 2500 working miners.
Roy Butlin, Coalville NUR Our depot in birated We move 135,000 tons a week to three power stations, including Didcot which has been switched off the national grid since June.
They're getting frustrated with us, because we're surrounded by working churning out all this coal and won't shift it.
You're all longing for power cuts. vou can't wait for them to start. If they break Coa vile they can shift coal by rail, it will put back the power cuts until after Christmas.
But I must say a word about the lorries. There's not much can about them, but it's got to be a condition of the settlement of the mutters dispute that all the coal that was on the railway, comes back to the railway.
And if it doesn't come back on the railway at the nd of this disput if my the tonnage that we carKent NUM, Ross Socialist ALON internarally.
explaining his CICH tionalism.
brought Peoples' being sell Nigel Beyan of NUM explained tour Holland.
Denmark, Italy the solidarity final there on behalf of Revolutionary Communist League of The meeting singing of the Iniernanonete.
Bold NUM was by unionists Jule.
It raised ILL ried, then the NUM needn't ask us for support again.
And I'll finish with this. There's decl miners dismissed in this dispute. it's the NUM's position that their reinstatement is part of the Ann Jones, Johnson on the left of • Lodge women's support group, speaking at the rally; Lorraine the platform AcTion E When our few started going into work at Bold some of the women went down to the picket LICS And we joined in. We had to, because we saw at first hand the terrible way the police were treating the miners on the picket fine. abuse and the insults.
about politics through this strike and l m not gorg back to the kitchen sink after it finishes. I'm going to join the Labour Party - just as SOUl as 1 get enough time to go to a meeting! Phil Sutcliffe, Kent NUM work movement. we're nearly into the winter.
know there have women, but I'm not missing it out without the women backing their men, tor Jobs and for leir communities are fighting for the whole working class. WE'VE GOT very few scabs in Kent despite the big fuss they whipped up around the 'back to work' movement, and there were mass pickets waiting for them at every pit.
There were six went in at Betteshanger, there were 26 went through at Tilmanstone and that number is now down to 18, and there were none at Snowdown. That's the truth about the back to But they haven't got them working, because from when the scabs started going through the picket lines, the NACODS men have come out on strike. Not just because we picketted them out, but in protest against the police harassment, not just on the picket lines but in the communities.
They picked on us in the spring, believing that the strike would only last a few weeks. But they miscalculated badly, because we've lasted the spring, and the summer and the autumn. And now But we couldn't have lasted this long - and I already been tributes to the — we couldn't have kept up our morale or stayed so united But I'm not paying them tribute just as women but as women who are fighting women who It's been said that the women's activity in this strike is changing lives. It's certainly changing mine. My wife, Kay, is very active in the strike. If you go in our local strike headquarters you'll find all the phone numbers on the wall, but you won't find mine. It'd down as Kay Sutclitfe, not as me.
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