The growth of al -bitrary policing throughout this strike combined with the Tory attacks on democratic rights bodes ill for the future if the miners are not victorious.
'Who tells them to hate working men? When they say they are simply following orders to rub their boots down our shins and hit us with such venom WInO gives lnese Five miners and a child died because police actions explain the miners furiously.
These young people, far from being the thugs, bully boys that the Sun DUCECOLO which side they are on - have chosen becoming modern heroes and erones or use cass courage through these bit- 'The tale your ter times will live on and shall never die. But he comes to radicalli different conclusions about closures, for he also quantifies CUS the government of redundancy ment benefit, and loss of tax revenue Of the 166 pits in the British coalfield he conchoes alone one would cost less to close down than to keen open Even the pits whose threatened closure precipurely economic grounds, the report argues. Under present conditions or mass unemployment, any savEeper miner per Governmen Herrington Cortonwood Bullcliffe Wood OILS tune with the NCB's task of increasing profitability would have imposed substantial losses on the rest of society as well as on the miners concerned 'In no sense, then, can these be labelled runeconomicts "unprofitable"
from the point of view of society,' argues Andrew Glyn. • The report is available from book shops or from Turnaround Distribution, 27 Horsell Road, London NS IXL £1.50 (including p&p). For more DUCE information contact Andrew Glyn on 0865-249431 or 248019.
Present level of So to close pil closed cost to subsidy to keel means net loss