from a special correspondent Another industrial paper has joined the Voice stable. The Niners! Voice contais a wide range of articles on the situation in mining and on general political topics, The front page is taken up with items which will be invaluable for active trade unionists in the mining industry, ranging from a detailed account of the profits made by the Yorkshire section of the N.C.B. (comparing this with the level of wages) to a quotation from Frank Hodges! book on the nationalisation of the mines, written in 1920. The latter quotation shows that the basic problems facing the miners have not changed all that mch in the intervening 46 years. Of special interest is the centre-page spread on "Workers! Control in the Pita", by Ken Coates, This, living up to the usual high calibre of these
2 centre spreads, gives a detailed yet easy to read plan for the
ation of workers! control to the pits. It is bound to cause a big
when it is pinned up on dozens of notices board in the pits, institutes and canteens, The back page has articles by Joe Kenyon and Mick Weaver, and still more items about the coal industry, It is certain that this new paper will make a big impact in the coalfields. It can help the process of re-establishing the miners as part of the vanguard for militancy in the British trade union movement. Any Week reader who can help to get the paper as widely known as possible in the mining areas should write immediately to: Miners! Voice, 120, Standhill Crescent, New Lodge, Barnsley. Copies cost 9d post paid, The editors will send sample copies to any miners you suggest.