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...Arthur Horner himself, with a grimness he almost seemed to relish, told 50,000 of his men at Morpeth last week: "We shall be five million tons short of our requirements by the end of 1947." Mrs. Ivy Lee, a young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...
...would Arthur Horner use his vast power in Britain's economic crisis? Arthur Horner's first loyalty is not to his country or his town, to his King or his father. Arthur Horner is a Communist...
...Preacher. When Arthur Horner was born in Merthyr 53 years ago, Britain was mighty and coal was at the core of her might. Old Jim Horner raised his son to fear God. Young Arthur forgot much of what old Jim taught him, but Arthur never forgot that coal meant power...
...Then Jim Horner's money ran out. Arthur had to quit his religious studies, take a job in the coal pits. But he kept preaching. His sermons became tinged with socialism, and gradually only socialism remained. The mine owners fired him and he was blacklisted in all the Welsh mines. When World War I broke out, he refused to bear arms in what he called "an imperialist and anti-working-class...
...Year's Eve 1918, he left his father's house and took the mountain path up Aberdare. He walked all night and all day into the New Year till he saw the little mining town of Maerdy in the valley below. It was there that Arthur Horner's vindictive rise to power began...