The information contained in the article on the fuel industry in this week's issue has most serious implicatiors for the whole labour movement. The mine workers have been the most loyal and devoted supporters of this, and other Labour governments. In the pioneering days, when Labour was struggling it was the miners who gave it a base. If these plans are put into effect we shall see the mining industry reduced to half its present size, and the break-up of whole mining communities. It would mean the virtual end of the Scottish and South Wales’ minefields. Is this way to repay the miners for. their loyalty to Labour. We said in February, 1966, that it is flagrantly immoral to break trust with the miners, and also it wuld be politically catastrophic. This is even more so now. There should be determined campaign against these plans. The 40 MPs who sit for mining constituencies - all Labour — should get up and be counted on this issue.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 7, No. 1, c. 5 January 1967
Piiospects for Coal
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