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SPECIAL OFFER TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS £1 FOR EIGHT WEEKS PAPERS INCLUDING A FREE COPY OF printed by tao end ofset radit. C ax 50 London N1 - An Autobiography by Awuntain of Desuaii Hund rols o) Ininers Htom ene tilla THEY TOILED TO DIG THE NATIONS COAL demand' in otner words. we need all the coal we can get.
Cost But the collapse of industry, low wages and poverty pensions that no one can actually afford to buy it. That 1s why thousands of old people literally freeze to death every winter.
The immediate effect of import controls against cheaper, highly subsidised foreign coal would inCVILADIy De a TISE in the cost of coal to working class families. Next would come the inevitable reraliation.
Countries finding their coal sales Britain stop harriers •CIC! similar against products. should reject the idea that British miners jobs can safeguarded at the expense of foreign miners workers in other sectors of British industry.
The bosses wouldn't hesitate to use import controls to divide the working class. Closures in the steel industry would be blamed on 'expensive British coal' and the workers who mine il. What chance then of a fighting alliance between miners and steel workers?
Solidarity And in any future coal cirike why chond Be man or French miners show the SaTLC •SONTERIE they did in 1972 and 1974 when they refused to scab on the tionality, not class.
Import controls imply that a Weish miner more Thatcher or Derek Ezra than with an American miner. It is Thatcher and Ezra who threaten miners johs should put the blame where it really lies and call for a g ans! alternative to import controis.
We should demand a subsidy tion a qual to that Belgiun and (about twenty times the present level) financed by SCanceaOE NCB's debts to the big banks.
The stockpiles should be reduced by making coal free to old age pensioners A crash programme of uscful public works could use every ton of coal dug. Such poncis would de fend jobs and other workers ivine stam. dards by coal cheaper The bosses and hankers created the coal crisis - they should pay tor It. ImDori ConTOs On the other hand would put the burden on the very people who miners have to win to their side to fight for COCIA 1SH workers of all countries.
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