00:05
CROWD CHANTING: “Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go...”
00:52
[VOICE 1] People have been very good, up to now. Umm, you know, I mean this has gone on a long time and overall the people in the streets, who’ve been giving, have been excellent.
01:04
[VOICE 2] And if we get anybody that's in a predicament, say, somebody've been taken into hospital, they can't afford bus fares and things like that, to go over and see ‘em, they can approach a women's support group and we can try and help ‘em. You know, that's what we are out collecting for and to help to buy the food as well, which is essential, which we got to ‘ave. In our parcels, we tried to make four pound of potatoes, a tin of corned beef, which we like to put a tin of meat in 'cause you can make a meal out of a tin of meat. We put a tin of soup in, a tin of beans a tin of peas or carrots and then if we’ve got umm, like niceties, such as fruit and Ideal milk, they put that in every week or perhaps one week it will be a two pound bag of sugar or a couple of little extras we try to put in every week for ‘em.
01:54
[VOICE 1] We've been on strike before, in umm, ‘72 and ‘74, but that was for money and it was nothing like this, nothing at all, I mean, we're not fighting for money, we’re just fighting, fighting for our jobs.
02:05
[VOICE 2] We was on the picket line in Point of Ayr, we’ve been on the picket line in Port Talbot, an’ I think we’ve been… our support group have been on, nigh on every demonstration that’s been going on around ‘ere.
02:16
[VOICE 3] In Point of Ayr [VOICES TOGETHER], we had two policemen each.
02:19
[VOICE 4] There was about forty-nine women and there was about two hundred and ninety police looking after us, and we kept them on their toes, we did, we frog marched them until in the end they had enough of us and they put us all into a half-moon, they just penned us into a half-moon, innit.
02:34
[VOICE 5] An’ I tell you what, after this strike is over and when we’ve won, which we are gonna win, which is obvious, innit, I'll be on valiums because my nerves would be shattered havin’ nothing to do! (LAUGHING) It’s true, honestly, because we’re so involved and so busy you ‘aven’t got time to sit and think about your own worries, then, innit, you just get into it and get on with it. I hope that we will keep as a group, that we can keep going even if we’re not, like say, fetching money in. I mean, you don't know, perhaps on the Christmas time or on holidays times, you know, we can get something going again, to keep the Ceiber itself alive because we've brought more to the Ceiber since we've been on strike than we've had in the last ten years ‘ere. You know, because I mean, with the carnivals, it’s not only for miners, it’s for everybody and everybody can come down there and enjoy their selves, and which they have done, they have really enjoyed their selves.
03:27
[A WOMAN ADDRESSESS THE CROWD ON STAGE] The women ‘ere today, ‘ave already shown that they are the backbone of the strike. Fighting for victory, all the way. Thatcher doesn't like it, when she blockades Nottinghamshire and women picket gets through. Thatcher doesn't like it, when she tries to starve us back and the women set up canteens. Thatcher doesn’t like it, when she tries to isolate us and finds that other workers support us. Thatcher hates our campaign, and our courage and determination. And whatever Thatcher hates, it will keep us going. [CROWD APPLAUSE]
04:13
[GROUP OF WOMEN ON SCREEN]
[WOMAN ON RIGHT OF SHOT] They’ll tell you on the telly there’s only a couple of hundred, but we know different, don’t we.
[VOICE 6] Or truer.
[INTERVIEWER] Carry on talking amongst yourselves.
[THE GROUP OF WOMEN TALKING AMONGST THEMSELVES]
Stop swearing, now.
I haven’t said a word, I’m sorry.
Kate’s been a good girl, so far.
Now say what you think of MacGregor, Barbara.
A ba***rd.
[GROUP LAUGHS]
04:34
[CHILDREN SINGING ON A BUS TO THE TUNE OF THE SONG DRUNKEN SAILOR]
What shall we do with Ian MacGregor,
What shall we do with Ian MacGregor,
What shall we do with Ian MacGregor,
Early in the morning.
Burn, burn, burn, the bugger,
Burn, burn, burn, the bugger,
Burn, burn, burn, the bugger,
Early in the morning.
05:11
[WOMEN ON THE BUS SINGING THE WELSH HYMN, CALON LÂN]
05:28
[VOICE 7] Well, I think we frightened that woman. We do say it’s a bad word but I will say her name, Maggie Thatcher, I think we've frightened ‘er 'cause she didn't think that she’d have the support of the women behind the men. She’d taken on a lot more than what she bargained for. I mean, I know that they call her an ‘Iron Lady’, so are we, iron ladies, she’s not on her own, only we’re fighting for different things.
[WOMEN ON THE BUS SINGING THE WELSH NATIONAL ANTHEM, HEN WLAD FY NHADAU]