se PRS rite eacopess Communi ty tetornntien Servide haw fist Beene Ho}S ef its "Commnity Topics" entitled "1952 — 1962 Pon Years of &.C.5.C.™ (The Suropean Coal and Steel Community). It has this to say about the Coal Industry in the Common Market under ther "Coal Crisia™,
"The crisis has brought a general reorganisation of the coal indust which has so far resulted in (1) A reduction of over 25 por cent in the labour force (both underground and surface workers) since 1957, a trend which was particularly marked in 1959, when 63,000 men left industry, and in 1960, when 55,000 lefte (2) A shawp increase in productivity with the result that tho fall in pro =duction has been mich smaller than the reduction in labour forceg output per man ~shift underground in the Community as a whole roso from 1.4 tons in 1953 to over 2,1 tone in the open: months of 1 our emphasis). @ closure of a number of plts an 6 reallomwation of labour to the more productiye mines. (Since 1958 a total cf 15 mimes have been closed in Germany, 57 in Belgium, and nine in France), Earlier under the caption "Social Welfare: readaption and retraining" it said:"From 1953 to mid—1962 the High Authority approved readaption schemes invalying /30,000 workers - roughly 110,000 of them in the coal industry, end expenditure of 47 million dollars, Since the High Authority provides only 50 per cent of the total cost of readaption schomes, with the Government concerned providing an equal amount, the total allotment for readaption has been 4 million dollars, Import-nt aa readaption echems are to individual workers, thay do not provide the answer to the basic problems of reviving areas which have been mainly dspendent on minke for their livelihood and for which pit closures could mean economic and social dislocation. In these areas miners have considerable difficulty in finding alternative employment." -
| This means that whilst there was a 25 per cont reduction of labour force there has been a 50 por cent increase in productivity. The mich vaunted readaption payments amount to less than four or five months basic wages for each worker, and by no means all those displaced have received payment. "e note that less miners have received benefits in the ten years of-tho &.C.5,C.than left tho | industry in the two years 1959 and 1960. ‘Thus,tho true nature of the Commnity is clearly domonstrated, that of expediting rationalisation at the expense of the working class of Europe,