ABLRTILLERY WOMEN time is the dispute.
Margaret hypocritical use of David Wilkie's death to 'imniore miners to show their abhorrence bv 'flooding' back to work has comfailed.
Willy hundred, on NCB figures, returned last Monday and that is a figure inflated upwards. At the same Lime an unprecedented legal attack has seen a bla tant lorv stooge installed to run the union over the heads of the membership lis democratically elected executive.
big turn out on Come THE WOMEN AGAINST Pit Closures rally and march this Saturday will mark another crucial stage in building a national organisation of women in support of the NUM. The miners' wives have made the miners' union understand that the participation and involvement of women strengthens the entire movement. The demonstration comes too at a critical Saturday will provide an important boost lo ine miners. addition led organised by women and children presents an entirely different image to the media's current lying camDalell polllay miners as violent thugs.
Such march will highlight the hypocrisy of government wio nave conced mers șocial security payments USL before Christmas, after mining communities have lived on a pittance for nine months in their fight to save their jobs and their communities.
It will show the con fidence power working class women who have discovered strength during onsoute a power that will not quickly disappear.
If women can sustain the commitment they have during the long months of this strike, then it's about time the rest of the trade union movement followed sull. come to carall on o December and show the support for the NUM and the new women's move.
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Dear Socialist Action, Please find enclosed my poem. If you print it, will you not put my full name or address. anyone interested they could write to me c/o you.
The reason is my job could be in jeopardy, and I need this job. I support two striking miners.
One a single lad who receives no money at all;
a wife and my baby grand daughter aged received £9.50 per week -now reduced by the plus a 16 year old son.
i love mv sons and am proud to support them I will continue to man stalls attend meetings man soup kitchens, picket, sew, speak, visit pits, laugh and grieve with them all until there is work and peace in the coalfields.
1 am member Women Against Pit Closures and the local defence call artil. member of my union's 1921 of their this your 9776), Man MAERDY SOLIDARITA WIVES1S THE TO SEE SAVE THE PITS
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