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Kinneil miners let down Scotland on the Kinneil workers. While pledging 'full support' for Kinnei and saying that there would be a stoppage of the Scottish coalfield if asked for by Kinneil', he did not call for official action in Scotland.

Kinnel was left to carry the can. As a result miners at other pits were uncertain what the official response was going to be, and some crossed the Kinwas able to build on this neil picket lines confusion to swing the delegate conference against action.

Now the NCB will turn its attention to other Scottish pits which are also 'uneconomic' as a result of the recession. The next test will be in South Wales if the money is not provid ed for investment. Miners cannot afford any further hesitancy. The call for action needs to be loud and clear. And it will have to be fought for.

Part of that fight will be to halt the runsteel, where another 5,000 Jobs are to go on top of the 10,000 already announced.

The line of 'action if necessary' to defend jobs put by the Scottish Triple Alliance is not enough Action only necessary and vital and that mea

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KINNEIL PIT