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Britain this week was a country beset by a crisis on top of a crisis. The nation's 270,000 coal miners walked off the job at the start of the week, and Prime Minister Edward Heath launched a three-week election campaign to fight for his political life. For Britons, the prospect for the lingering weeks of winter was for more sacrifices, as the nation headed toward a divisive election and potentially disastrous coal shortages. While no one was predicting that they would not find the resilience to weather this latest avalanche of troubles, there was no question...
Stark Choice. The first word that Heath had decided to cut short his five-year term, which expires in June 1975, and seek a vote of confidence was received last week by Queen Elizabeth on the royal yacht Britannia, lying at anchor in Auckland's Waitemata Harbor. The Prime Minister requested Her Majesty to dissolve Parliament and grant permission for a general election to be held Feb. 28. The Queen quickly cabled her ritual assent and returned to her royal tour of New Zealand...
That night, in a television address, Heath pictured the issues confronting Britain as a stark choice between economic survival and the inflationary wage demands of union militants. "The election," he declared, "gives you, the people, the chance to say to the miners and to everyone else who wields similar power, 'Times are hard, we are all in the same boat, and if you sink us now, we will all drown...
...Heath's claim that the central issue of the campaign is whether the elected government or the trade unions will run the country is another clear distortion of the issues. As things stand now, the miners are only trying to win a decent living wage for themselves. The government is trying to bail itself out of its own failure by denying the miners what they deserve...
...British electorate understands the real issues in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Edward Heath should find himself out of office after February 28. If for no other reason beside self-interest, the majority of the electorate would be less than reasonable if it accepts Heath's attempt to break the back of the inflation by breaking the back of the working class. If the voters do accept Heath's faulty analysis of the issues involved in this campaign, and if they place ultimate responsibility for Britain's recession with the miners instead of where it belongs, they will find themselves with...