MINERS' MESSAGE
LIGHT FOR THE OPPRESSED IN EUROPE . (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 29. A striking and eloquent New Year message to mine-workers in Europe in which the light .of the miner's lamp and the fearless, untiring work of miners' rescue parties are evoked as pledges of hope for those who are dppressed under Nazi tyranny comes from the miners of the Durham coal-, fields "on behalf of every miner at\ home in Britain." To fellow-workers on the Continent they say: "Whatever the toll- to be paid, whatever the sacrifice involved, we face it cheerfully in the realisation that there can be no hope for mankind so long as the Nazis exist. The barbarian gangsters who enslaved you will never succeed against people whose long history has been one of struggle, endurance, and triumph in the long travel to liberty and freedom. Today, when to you the future may sesm dark as night, we assure you that the gleam that lightens our path and gives us faith shall give you nope and confidence to overthrow despotism and tyranny."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 6
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178MINERS' MESSAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 6
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