Alex Eadie, who has died aged 91, was for 32 years a miner and miners' agent who went, as he said himself, "from the coalface to the House". An MP for 26 years, he championed the coal industry during a long period of decline from the late 1960s until the miners' strike of the Margaret Thatcher era.
Alex Eadie
MP and miner;
Born June 23, 1920;: Died January 26, 2012
Alex Eadie, who has died aged 91, was for 32 years a miner and miners' agent who went, as he said himself, "from the coalface to the House". An MP for 26 years, he championed the coal industry during a long period of decline from the late 1960s until the miners' strike of the Margaret Thatcher era.
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