Information about the numbers retrained by employers is not available.
As several have said, these changes affect not only elderly people, but younger people, both men and women, who must be retrained for alternative employment.
In the new atmosphere of changing techniques in industry, a man may have to be retrained three times in the course of his working life.
It is not easy for people of that age to be retrained.
The longer the pits are kept going, the larger will be the number of those who will not be able to be retrained.
It is no good thinking that miners cannot adapt themselves and be retrained.
They will have to be trained and retrained between one employment and another.
Men will have to become used to the idea of being retrained from time to time during their working lives.
