From late June British Steel started running huge convoys of scab lorries into Ravenscraig and, especially, from Port Talbot to bLlanwern/b. Miners' picketing in Port Talbot soon tailed off, and was token at Ravenscraig. b...../b The police make charges through the old people's bestate/b and parade horses and riot gear through the main street, endangering local people, young and old." From late August, a second wave of mass picketing was mounted by striking miners - not to spread b.../b
Worse, the regional NUM bureaucracies actively sought local deals with ISTC branches at the key plants of Ravenscraig in Scotland, Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire (supplied by coal from South Yorkshire), and Port Talbot and bLlanwern/b in South b.../b
The move has been proposed as an alternative to the closure of the bLlanwern/b steelworks at Newport, Gwent, where more than 1000 people work. In October more than 4000 employees at JCB, the digger maker, voted to work fewer hours, b.../b
