Urgent: funds Dawdon pit | Socialist Action 1983

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on strike.

sustain the miners and their families.

Dawdon pit has not so tar been 'twinned' with any movement organisation. It is sand wiched between the larger Easington Colliery other pits such as Vane Tempest and Monkwearmouth, and the lodge officials feel that it has been forgotten by the solidarity movement.

The Welfare Committee can Only manage to provide two meals a week on Tuesdays Thursdays. Singe miners WIll nọt receiving social securitv have fend for themselves the rest of the week, and the lodge officials are spending a lot of their time visiting single miners to ensure they are alright.

Alan also explained that 30 per cent of children at the local school did not turn up for the first day of term because they had no ade@mate footwear. Many of teasingle miners have nad their electricity croif for the last 3 weeks : When Alan visited one miner last week, he found him cooking chips for his two children over an open fire in his hearth miner has been fined f90 FOOTBALL FANS will have heard of Terry Fenwick, the Queens Park Rangers and England foorball player. His father Alan works at Dawdon pit, in Seaham, Co. Durham, where over 1700 miners are Alan is a member of the Pit Welfare Committee, set up at the start of the dispute. He spoke last week to a meeting of Langbaurgh Trades Council, ir Cleveland, about the desperate need for funds to for stealing f3 worth coal. A local security firm has their dogs on miners and children found taking coal from the heaps in the pit.

It is often said tha Thatcher trying 'starve the miners back to work' in the forgotte: pits like Dawdon, which is solidly behind the strike this is literally what wil happen unless the labour movement responds mediately Alan Fenwick and his colleagues see the next twi weeks make with Coal Board's Xmas incentive bribe be ing used to tempt miners back to work They relving on us to deliver the support so often promis• Rush all donations 10 Dawdon Advice & Distress Centre, Mount Stewart Street, , Dawdon, Seaham, Co. Durham Cheques should be made payable to 'Dawdor Advice & Distress Fund'.

- Saturday Dec. 8th.