CARDIFF | Socialist Action 1983

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WITH LWU weeks' of coal steel negotiations continuing British managethe ElecPhoto: PAUL HIGHFIELD ing that the but ad mitting industrial biting in Wales. wale travelling inCIs country, the only pit still operating.

The scale of picketing activities, including arrests and heavy fines, together with mounting hardship, is stretching the resources the South Wales NUM. But support committee activity and food collection is growing to meet these needs. The idea of support committees Nas met resistance from the South Wales Labour Party leaderships who have argued that the existing trades council structures are sufficient.

In Cardiff, local trade union and Labour Party activists have set up a supcommittee in the DULL seventh week of the strike, with the backing of the NUM Rhondda Joint Lodges. holds open working vee ns rom the local TUC head quarters. Its main work so far has been to organise NUM tours to factory gate and union metings.

The money is pouring