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Coal: Sherman speech module (“The NUM and the British People”) [“the dispute is part of an attempt by the NUM and like-minded unions to impose their diktat on the British people”] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 1/5/18-part2 f25
Editorial comments: Undated: listed by date of speech. Read the conference speech here.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Conservatism, Economic policy - theory and process, Privatized & state industries, Leadership, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, 1984-85 coal strike