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Coal miners demand Gorbachev's resignation

Strike threatens to cripple industry
MOSCOW. Mar 6: Soviet coal miners on Tuesday intensified a strike’ which threatens to cripple the country's industry. but Prime Minister Valchtin Pavlov said their demands were "unjustified", reports. Reuter.
The miners are pressing for better pay and conditions and the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Pavlov said a drop in production throughout the economy of five percent since the beginning of the year made a nonsense of an increase of up to 150 per cent demanded by some strikers.
"In my opinion many people who know nothing about this arc trying to stir things up.” Pavlov told Soviet Television.
"If we now rock the econ-■—omy, then we rock the plant -ing of crops and you know what that means. It means come spring there will be no bread." he said.
An earlier report said: President Mikhail Gorbachev said that Soviet industrial and food production had declined since the beginning of the year and tough decisions were needed to halt the economy's continuing tailspin.
He told Soviet Television after the first major meeting of his new cabinet that an agreement between Moscow and the Soviet Republics had failed to provide consumers with the food they needed.
The crisis ts for the moment worsening. The situation at enterprises and commerce is such that all these issues have become urgent and require intervention and specific decisions", said Gorvachcv. looking hesitant and visible tired.
For the first two months of 1991 food production was lower than set down tn the agreement and people of course feel this and see it empty shop shelves.
A cabinet statement carried by the official Tass news agency said both production and national income, the chief indicator of Soviet economic performance, had fallen slntc the beginning of the year.
These problems have been particularly compounded by the fall tn the extraction and supply of oil to domestic and foreign markets, tt said In addition its price on world markets.is falling sharply.
lie statement said further falls in production could not be tolerated and blamed the difficulties on a breakdown tn "economic links”- a failure to implement traditional planning and supply objectives.
The smaller republics it said, were suffering most. as larger republics were conchid Ing trade agreements.