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Still, the rhetoric flows in this election campaign as Heath tries to pin the blame for England's economic crisis on the miners. The theme of Heath's Conservative Party campaign is "Who runs the country, the elected government or militant trade unions?" Heath, following the lead of Nixon and Joe McCarthy, is trying to pass the whole thing off as a communist plot in hopes that the tide of public opinion will be turned against the strikers...
...mine union governing council's twenty-seven members are communists. But communists do not have numerical control of the union and the strike has the explicit support of most of the non-communist members of the governing council. When Heath requested that the miners delay the strike until after the parliamentary elections, the council voted 20 to 6 to reject Heath's proposal...
...time they spend in the bowels of the British earth, working to supply the nation with critical fossil fuel. They are not paid for the time it takes them to travel up and down the mine shafts. The miners are demanding an average $20-a-week pay hike, but Heath is willing to give them no more than a $6-a-week raise...
...Heath's rationale for this parsimony is that he's trying to hold the line on Britain's spiraling inflation. Heath, like Nixon in the United States, has clearly been managing his economic problems at the expense of the working classes. Heath has been determined to hold down wages, but his determination has wavered when it comes to prices. The miners, traditionally a union of radical pluck, have rejected Heath's line that the business of the nation is business and have pressed on with their demands despite Heath's vilification...
...anticipation of the government's inability to outlast the miners, Heath has been trying to break the back of the strike with the weight of public opinion. Using propaganda tactics and predictions of doom if the miners get their way, Heath is skirting the economic issues behind the strike and trying to make it politically unfeasible for the miners to persist in their demands. Heath hopes to have Britons looking for reds under their beds with his charges that communists have infiltrated Britain's trade union's. His claim that the choice to be made in this election is "between...