Britain Facing Coal Crisis
LONDON, July 7. Britain is moving towards the most severe coal crisis since 1947. The present situation is “calamitous” and there is nothing much that can be done about it, was the tenor of speeches at the Blackpool conference of the National Union of Mineworkers. Two union leaders—the general secretary, Mr Arthur Horner, and the new president, Mr W. E. Jones—went further than the National Coal Board and the Fuel and Power Ministry have already gone in predicting a major winter coal shortage. Mr Horner referred to the “calamitous situation which now faces this nation with respect to coal supplies” and to the “very, very serious” manpower position. He said that unless the industry recruited the manpower it needed it would be impossible to maintain full employment in Britain. “If the coal output falls by 5,000,000 tons a year below industrial needs there inevitably will be more than 1,000,000 unemployed in other industries,” he said.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27397, 9 July 1954, Page 11
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159Britain Facing Coal Crisis Press, Volume XC, Issue 27397, 9 July 1954, Page 11
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