German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (R) gestures whilst Werner Mueller, CEO of German hard coal corporation Ruhrkohle AG, looks on following Schroeder's key-note speech at a workers' council meeting in the western German hard coal mining town of Kamp-Lintfort April 17, 2005. The leader Schroeder's Social Democrats stepped up his assault on business on Sunday as the party seeks to mobilise voters before an election in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia next month. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay WR/YH