will have on the town and what they think should be done.
next five years or so because 1 don't see any jobs being kept at all.
*If they invested about 275 milion to keep the botton od open for re-building two arnaces and two coils it would be OK Noel said that he did not think rociein coow vaie buleveu tal mse obs were on the way.
People will have to move and with Ebbe Vale having a population of 36,000 in will be dead. So will Trodegar BeynmanT a well OBLIGATION *The Labour Goverment has an oblipation to put money into the plant to keep it going. There bas boen talk of asking Benn to step in but 1 think trat dey ane bent on closure. If that happens 4,000 po down the road.
"My ideais if the men go on the dole in April then we stop the whole plant. We contact other parts of the steel industry for support and stop indefinitely until Foot comes here and does something BSC so 1 will support the Works Council in what it does to light closures.
Ray Beynon, who is secretary of the Producrar Works CouncE, was assed wis tare e augerences Detween to two works counens!
Te craft anions in my opilon wae brain washed into acoepting the BSC S oda nal proposas because there was aul expanding That was supposed to give another 3,500 jobs at Merthyr. What happened was that we were all trapped into waiting to sec what would happen JDDIT TIC TEU TOES DELIAS: LINE 23385 the Government and BSC were talking aboul.
We now know that despite the Labour Government saying dicy woukl delay any close of modication anti ther had been a review, BSC has been: ping ancad win 115 plans connuziy all the time. They promisod there would be 1000 johs here before the rundown SABE CS DECA TWO SERE SONORA in my opinion. BSC and Whitehall have bota deceitful all siong.
I don't see bow Benn car direct DOm to private industrs and not to ise nabonansed muusuy wCE DeRis that the private investor benelits and BUE 65 "Michsel Foot talks nbout en experiment in chancing Crom one industry to another, but 1 don't want lo bea Workers in Ebbw Vale told Red Weekly what effects the redundancies Noel Davies is a crane driver and a member of BISAKTA who explained: "The main closures are in the furnaces and the hotstrip mill. Al the end of April 300 will be tinishing. 1 am even more worried about the Bon Wirks Council and a member of the AUEh comtructional socton was asceu will there be support from eisewhere?
Ken Monte from Shotton Action Committee has already plodged his support. When we were at ue Steel Action Committee Meeting in Scotland thiere were 35 delegates there representing 70.000 steelworkers They unanmnous piedged support to anyone fighting redundaricies Phil Williams told Red Weekly: "A united Roy Morgan is the EPTU convenor at Whiteheads Steel Works in Newport and explained: What is happening at Ebue Vale must be scon in the ficht of the tactics of the capitalist class.
"What they are trying to do is pick off the steel works one by one. Whether they get away with that of not is determined by the militancy in the piants •epow vale snows ano real nozn, of nationalisation under the labour Governent. Its Sob has been to provide the capitalists with cheap steeL WORKERS' CONTROL 'It is not chough to simply chant nationalisation as many cE the Labour Pul bits do. Ebow Vale shoas the need to take up the light for workers' 'It is not the job of the workers to SUCES CAPITAIS SHRHE means that they chould not bu trylag to produos plans to prose how the That will only lead to workers sacking other workers "A licht must bo organised to unire or sackings. Every worker must be "Mass motings must be organised and the leaders must be responsible to thase moctings. Women are just as affocted as the men and they must be invalveu alongside the men and brought into che 'Il is pood that wives and wonien relatives of Ebbw Vale steelworkers have forned an action committee lo hight the planned closores. More than 100 momen attended their first meeting and this muse be built on and streagthoned, A FOCUS "Many industries in Newport are on short-time and that is not just steelworkers Ebbw Vale should become a focus to organise a South Wales fight hack against unemployment R. Ahsan is secretary of the TGWU branch at Crompton Parkinsons, Newport and want up to Ebtw Vale to discuss with steelworkers. He loid Red Weekly What is happening here is going to affect the whole of the valleys. By having 4,000 to 4,500 dundancies there will ne aver 8,000 people affected in the ontiying Industries which depend on the works.
/Also there will be ruin in a lot of sall businesses in the town. If you look at the South Wales area as a whois, in Nowport chere are a whote series of rodundancies and short Lino working going on bow ... 19 firms are on short time there now; 1 am ou a throo-day week mysell:
although they are prepared to fight there's a lot of apathy because there has boon no proper leadership over the yenrs Inat wiese sounoanies ause occo on the cards. The only political groups in the town up to now have been the Eabour Party and to a lesser excent Paid Cyrini HARD CORE *T think thouch that there is a land core in the town who will rake strang action ir some political lendership con be given. That action thougle won't be successful unicas we get the support of and every worker, Beyond that we must get support from the unemployed and short-time people here and throughout the ares.
*Since the 1930s chene's been no militant action up here at all, and the Labour Government thanks it can savrilice the jobs with no trouble. Also, oi courso ahat militancy there has beeo has been dir octed by the Labour Harry Itself, which B now administering the cuts.
The labou boomenca das peso con ning down steel sinde 1966 and Bens has been involved in those plans.
steelwackers force any concessions out of the Labour Goreminent Newport For tus struggie We will be bolding a meeting to try and dram militanis together to baild a united Camonie beninst redundancies and shartTwo Works Councils -One Struggle