Hans Berger, chairman of the coal miners union, addresses thousands of coalminers in Bonn, March 11, during angry protests against government plans to reduce subsidies for hard coal mining. Chancellor Helmut Kohl cancelled a last attempt to reach a compromise with the miners. In rear are L-R are Oskar Lafontaine, chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Joschka Fischer, parliamentary leader of the Greens party and Rudolf Scharping, parliamentary leader of the SPD.

GERMANY MINERS