This headline on the ‘Finance, Industry and Commerce! paze of the Sheffield Telegraph (Ausust 18) ecncerned statements made by Mr. Joe Kenyon, Yorkshire Organiser of the National Council of Labour Colleges, about the danger of coal face workers having to retire early because of mental pressure resulting from increased mechanisation in the pits. A fcrmer miner himself, Mr. Kenyon said: "I am sure there is going to be an incidence of mental illness among miners because of the drive for more production. Lord Robens has called for an extra 15 minutes a shift but work is already intensified. The problem will be when the fellows break under the strain and this will result im more absenteeism as well as men having to leave the face for other wrk." (But of course it was only last month that Comrade Robens said: "The miners have no better friend than Alfie Robens.")
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