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Socialist Organiser is not just a paper. We fight to organise workers in the struggle for a new leadership in the If you agree with what we have to say, you can help. Become a supporter of the Socialist Organiser Alliance -groups are established in most large for more information, write at once if he had this money to invest, he 'would not be prepared to invest it at Lewis Merthyr.' This investment starvation is the central issue throughout the South Wales coalfield, and it is recognised by the miners that if TM-LM is not saved, it will place up to 8 other pits in the Area under threat of immediate closure, with several more not far behind.

TM-LM is therefore the focal point in the struggle for the future of the whole coalfield — a struggle which is almost certain to be decisive for the future of the coal industry nationally.

By the weekend South Wales NUM had declarations of support from all the main unions involved in the transportation of coal - the seaman's union, the T&G and the rail unions - and NUM officials were confidently labour movement.

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WHATEVER differences there may be over the details of the waterworkers settlement, there should be no doubt about one thing; the Tory government's 'resolute approach' in trying to smash this section of the trade union movement has come badly unstuck.

Thatcher's decision to intervene and try to impose Organiser no. 122 March 1983 Page ly to use their own judgement and/or withdraw emergency cover completeDespite these local and area advances, the feeling rightly persisted among the activists that at national level the membership were helpless at the hands of the bureaucrats.