On the other hand the colliers in Lancashire have been as solid for Labour as are those in Wales and Scotland. Where coal-mining and shipbuilding are the chief industries and the workers about half as well off as they were before the war, the only complaint about the candidates has been that they were too mild. In some of the towns on the northeast coast a communist would have stood almost as much chance as in Motherwell.
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