“We realised there was a fight on, but at the end of the day we were fighting to keep the pit open, for the men to keep their jobs to support their families.
“We thought we’d need to give out food parcels, so a couple of women went out with trolleys, going round to shops and door-to-door.
“I think a couple of the men had a shock.”
After successfully organising food collection in the Maerdy area, the women were initially reluctant to co-operate when the NUM regional headquarters in Pontypridd wanted them to hand over their supplies to be distributed centrally.
She said: “We thought, what the hell, there’s no way they’re going to come up here and take over,” she recalled.
“There was quite a lot of food gathered at the miners’ hall and we thought we’d hide it. One of the shopkeepers here let us put it in the shop.
“But there was no need because all the union was trying to do was to make sure everybody got something.”
Mrs Williams said scrupulous efforts were made to ensure everybody on strike had an equal share of the food.
“We were weighing potatoes, counting tea bags - sugar was like gold dust,” she explained.
- Striking Tales: A Wife's Story, BBC News, March 9, 2004.
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