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-------------------- Scaled-Down Polish Coal Mines Flourish --------------------

But some critics fault the sector's resistance to more reforms even as prices are declining.

By Jan Cienski Financial Times

June 12 2006

WARSAW — A couple of years ago, coal miners in the Silesia region of Poland staged a sit-in on the roof of their mine, protesting against layoffs and pit closures that had shrunk a once-prestigious industry to less than a quarter its former size.

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