PLANS are now well under way for a massive North West "People's March" in solidarity with the NUM'S tight to save Parkside colliery.
The march is also a challenge to the tide of job losses and unemployment throughout the region.
The march aims to help heighten the media profile of the anti-pit closure campaign and to bolster the fighting spirit of Lancashire's 500 remaining mineworkers who continue to stand firm against British Coal.
The march will consist of several 'legs' starting on 17,18 & 19 June, coming together on 20 June - the two hundred and fiftieth day of the NUM's campaign - for a mass demonstradon and rally in the vicinity of TEN THOUSAND workers from around the country joined recent protests in support of the Timex strikers.
News reports were dominated by the May 15 Scottish TUC demonstration and the May 22 mass picket addressed by Arthur Scargill.
The 343 strikers of the Dundee factory have shown people nationwide the value of solidarity and struggle.
Support came from the Dagenham Ford plant, Rolls Royce, the Parkside pit camp in Lancashire and elsewhere to the picket, which stopped most of the scabs from enter'*Thirty-five arrests were broke a woman's arm when atlacking a peaceful demonstration later that day.
The success of the Timex strike has a special lesson for those contronted by the donothing leaders of the labour movement. Bill Jordan condemns the pickets and has threatened to expel strikers from the union.
The AEEU leader warned Arthur Scargill to stay away from Dundee, likening him to the "captain of the Titanic.
Despite the union leaders' cowardice, real support has been gained through work at the rank and file level of the union and by that of organIsed left groups. especially the Socialist Workers' Party.
While some on the left argued the success of the strike hinges on gaining the backing Leader of Titanic miners' struggle: Scargill of Willis, Jordan and Smith, the Timex strikers show the need, and the way, to tackle to Tory offensive against jobs.
MO HOTTH NOT THE MINERS MINERS t