Must Work To Save Labour Government
Received Tuesdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 4. The Durham Miners' Assooiation which has 125,000 members, "is coiriteT)ing mass meetings throughout the Durham coalfields, to eonsider * ways and. means of boosting coal 'production so' that the coal target set for the present year will be attaihed. Estch nteetingf , will have before' it recommendations from pit consultative committees, mak ing detailed proposals for reducing absenteeism, reeruiting more coalface workers, eliminating strikes and Vestrictive praetices, and eneouraging overtime. ' Mr. Ram Watson, seeretary oT *thc Ourham Miners' Association, and this vear's chairihan of the Labdur P-afty, 'ommenting npon this production canipaign, "said": ''By getting doWn to the problem of production oq the basis 0+' fhese ' suggestions, Durha'm miners will be giving praetical support to the Govwnment's call for rndximum cooperarion'in the countrv's desperate 'economic. plighi= They kiiow pert>ctly : well that ftfe' suecess of " the * Libbpr . Government" is* also their suecegs' The returri of a Tory Government which might" be tlie result of failur^, is un thirikable to all Durham "minfets' yyho suffered so much. uuder' past Afeory Goveriimexits,,,;- *' ' * '
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1949, Page 5
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