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IN BRITAINS FUTURE SUBSIDISE DUR COAI NOW MINERS. FIGHT ANY FURTHER JOB LOSSES Miners lobby executive for fight against job loss MINERS FIGHT IN POLIC MINERS- FIGHT ANY FURTHER JOB LOSSES MINERS- FIGH ANY FURTHER* JOB LOSSES THE Tories are out to smash the miners.
The Coal Board claims that their decision to close up to 50 pits with the loss of 30,000 jobs is due to the cash limits imposed on the industry.
The real reason is that the Tories think that this is their best chance to defeat the miners.
There is no sound economic reason for closing 50 pits.
The recent World Coal Study estimated that the coal trade will double or treble by the year 2000. The only good reason for shutting a pit anywhere in the world is if it contains no more coal.
Future Coal is now the fuel of the future. Oil prices have quadrupled 9BS atomic power faces development costs and political opposition.
So the Tories have been preparing for a confiners. The Steel Cor miners. poration and the Central Electricity Generating Board have been deliberately switching away fis a record 31. There is record million tons stockpiled.
four-day week for miners and retirement at 55.
The miners' struggle and livelihood to and livelihood whole ctories of 172 and the victories of '74 behind them, many are aware that their strike can • be an all-out fight to kick out the Tories.
Boycott Already the rail and road transport workers in South Wales, together with the seafarers, have picuget complete boycott of the movement other areas strike this support must spicau lo every part of the country.
The national unions should make the support otticial. There should be repeat the shameful delays by transport union officials during the steel strike to give Clear written instruc tions to their members.
The solidarity that steelworkers could offer would be boycott coal and turn the 'cripple alliance into a fighting triple alliance.
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