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Re: Should the coal mines in the UK be reopened?
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Originally Posted by PISCES
Yes, Margaret Thatcher and Arthur Scargill   |
Nothing to do with Economics and Cost of Production, then?
You may find this info from the NUM useful...
http://num.org.uk/History-NumHistory...-industry.html
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Between the years 1957 and 1963, no less than 264 collieries were closed, while the number of miners fell by nearly 30 per cent. During this six-year period, Scotland lost 39 per cent of its pits, while 30 per cent of those in South Wales, Northumberland and Durham were wiped out.
Throughout the 1060s, with a Labour Government in office from 1964, the pit closure programme accelerated; it decimated the industry. During this period, nearly 300 more pits were closed, and the total workforce slumped from over 750,000 in the late 1950s down to 320,000 by 1968
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These things happened before Thatcher or Scargill were in Office.
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