BELGIAN COAL MINES
Miners Protest At Closure MONS (Belgium),‘February 14. Angry Belgian coal miners today uprooted trees, tore up cobblestones, and halted a train in a new wave of protests against the Government plans to close uneconomic pits. They used the trees and cobblestones, together with nails and broken bottles, to block the roads between main towns in the area—the Borinage coal basin near the French frontier. Police in utility vehicles followed one convoy of striking miners heading for the region’s biggest power station, at Quarenon, to urge electricity workers to down tools.
Yesterday the police clashed with rioters who erected roadblocks' and halted all traffic on the road from Mons to Frameries. More than 6000 miners are expected to losfe their jobs under Government plans to close eight of the region’s 14 pits.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28821, 16 February 1959, Page 11
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