WHAT ThE now to name Coal Board and the Union.

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Regardless of this terrible toil, the price of mechanisation - the Coal Board, backed by its Industrial Relations Department: the N.U.M. ,ure demanding by threat and blackmail an even greater effort and sacrifice, cr else. If the choice therefore (it seems to me it is) is able bodied unemployment now, or disabled unemployment later and an earlier more painful death; then I would say SHUT THE BASTARD FITS and this is what the N.U.M. leaders should say, RIGHT OUT AND LOUD, shut the bastard pits, then see what happens. Robens, who has more than qualified to become a 'Lord', has said "pneumoconiosis is not a scourge, we can control it". How many must die before it becomes a scourge? I only hope that one day, he will 'choke! that's about the kindest thing I could wish a man that puts "economic viability' before concern for human life.