Some 30 members of the House of Commons are onetime coal miners; they know the labor problems of the mines firsthand. Among the ablest of them is Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan of Ebbw Vale (pronounced Ebba Vale).
Last week, when ex-Miner Bevan stood up in the House to talk about coal, he went as accurately and painfully as a dentist's drill to the sorest spot in the British Government's war-labor policy.
To a skeptical House, Secretary of Mines David R. Grenfell had announced that the Government hoped to be mining all the coal it needed by the end of next winter. As it...
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