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Showing items 501 - 600 of 820. Document type: Press.
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84 Mar 15 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Flying pickets defy High Court and return to the pits” [Yorkshire picketers continue action in Nottinghamshire] |
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84 Mar 15 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Brittan condemns mob rule by miner on miner” [Home Secretary declares police have a duty to ensure non-strikers can go to work] |
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84 Mar 16 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Moderates dampen left-wing hopes of all-out pit strike; miners united by picket's death” [Hopes of national strike blasted by moderate vote; death of flying picket member] |
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84 Mar 19 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police set to match pickets man for man” [8000 officers mobilised; cost 500,000 pounds a day] |
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84 Mar 20 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Have the miners been nailed?” [“Control of the flying pickets could be a benchmark in curbing industrial disputes”] |
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84 Mar 20 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Official strike called” [Derbyshire calls strike; Skinner blames police presence] |
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84 Mar 20 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Time for a ballot” [The Times calls for a national ballot] |
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84 Mar 23 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “6,000 moderates ordered to join pit strike” [6000 Lancashire miners called out on strike; 80 percent of industry at standstill] |
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85 Feb 26 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Reticent Scargill arrives in Moscow” [Scargill talks with Soviet officials; refuses to say how much money donated] |
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84 Mar 27 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners’ pension fund &ldquohazarded by Scargill”; Pits dispute begin to affect industry; pickets' hide and seek with police” [Scargill imprudent in pension investments; dwindling supply of coke shuts steel works, flying pickets frustrated by police road checks] |
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84 Mar 27 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM leaders in moderate Midlands call out 13,000 men on strike” [Coalfield leaders call out strike despite vote against action] |
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84 Mar 28 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Chaos as miners choke motorway with 5mph crawl” [Miners do motorway protest] |
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84 Mar 28 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM moderates vote to force national meeting” [moderates vote to force recall of NUM executive] |
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84 Mar 31 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Labour is accused of “big lie” over police” [Home Secretary accuses Labour of shaking public confidence in the role of law and the police] |
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84 Apr 2 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unions at the abyss” (Which side will crack first in the miners’ dispute? Paul Routledge reports) |
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84 Apr 3 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Sharp exchanges in Commons over ballot on miners’ dispute; PCs on pit duty can earn £500; Royal visits likely to go ahead despite unrest in pits” [Walker condemns lack of national ballot; police at picket line can earn 500 pounds a week overtime; Royal visit to powerplants going ahead] |
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84 Apr 4 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Notts miners may yield to pickets; Scargill denial” [Nottingham union leaders tell moderates not to cross picket lines from Yorkshire; Scargill denies telling Mocow newspaper strike was the start of a class war] |
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84 Apr 5 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Notts ready to reject strike; “riot police” condemned by staff union” [Nottingham delegates to reject executive call not to cross picket lines; use of riot police criticised by police union] |
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84 Apr 6 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s strategy suffers blow in steel and pit votes; Commons set for mines debate” [Nottingham delegates reject executive's call; Commons to debate policing] |
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84 Apr 7 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police deny any phone taps on NUM officials” [Home Secretary denies hone hacking] |
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84 Apr 9 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit militants back rival strategy to relaunch dispute” [NUM leaders seek special delegate conference rather than national ballot] |
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84 Apr 10 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Emergency debate on police operation” [House of Commons to debate police action] |
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84 Apr 10 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher endorses police conduct in miners’ dispute” [Thatcher praises police] |
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84 Apr 13 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners expected to change the rules to get all-out strike” [NUM executive rejects calls for ballot; reduces voting majority necessary] |
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84 Apr 17 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Rotting coal stock claims denied” [NCB denies claims coal stocks wasting on ground] |
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84 Apr 18 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher ready to tackle total pit shutdown” [Government prepared contingency plans for national strike] |
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84 Apr 18 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scottish pledge to strike for miners” [Scottish union leaders pledge a 24 hour unlawful stoppage] |
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84 Apr 25 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill spurns MacGregor offer on closures” [Scargill rejects compromise] |
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84 Apr 26 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Ronald Butt: With friends like Scargill” [Butt article] |
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84 Apr 26 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Power station coal stocks likely to last into autumn; Labour levy planned to aid the miners” [expected life of coal stocks lengthened; Labour Party calls on members to fund strike fund] |
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84 Apr 27 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unease over Labour levy for miners” [Unease within Labour Party over subsidies] |
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84 Apr 28 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Powell critical of archbishop backing miners.” [Enoch Powell accuses Archbishop of York of hatespeech “religious bankruptcy&rdquo] |
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84 Apr 28 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “The company they keep” [Leader comment] |
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84 May 2 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Rivals clash as 6,000 rebel pitmen jeer union chiefs” [Clash between working strikers and area leaders] |
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84 May 2 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Letters to the editor” [Letters from archbishop of York and Ian Gow] |
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84 May 3 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Flying policemen versus flying pickets” [Police flown in from Hampshire] |
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84 May 4 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Convoys of coal beat the pickets” [Coal convoys getting through pickets] |
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84 May 7 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill says only 8 weeks’ coal left” |
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84 May 9 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “1,500 fail to halt coal lorries at Hunterston” [Clash with strikers and mounted police] |
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84 May 11 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police preparing clampdown on pit violence” [Police considering limits on picket numbers after violence] |
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84 Jun 12 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit package promises higher pay and output for job cuts” [NCB prepares new plan] |
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84 May 12 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher prepared for long strike” [MT emphasizes to conference long strike plans, rejects 8 week claims] |
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84 May 14 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “SDP backs working miners” [SDP critical of miners use of intimidation] |
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84 May 15 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Walker resists pressure to call coal leaders together” [many months of coal stocks, rejects negotiations] |
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84 May 17 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s wife on picket charge” [Scargill’s wife banned from picketing] |
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84 May 18 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Police teams to fight intimidation of working miners” [teams of detectives being formed] |
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84 May 18 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher defends decision of NCB to import coke” [Defends NCB importing 175,000 tonnes of coal from US] |
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84 May 19 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unions must obey law, Kinnock says” [Criticised Thatcher for intervention; unionists should not scorn legality] |
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84 May 19 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Whose Plan For Coal?” [Editorial] |
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84 May 21 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit strikers would vote to return now, mines survey indicates” [pithead polls tend towards end to strike] |
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84 May 23 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill to meet coal board” [leader and NCB to meet for first time since strike began] |
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84 May 26 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Notts miners win right-to-work orders from court” [High court confirms workers cannot be instructed to strike by their union] |
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84 May 29 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board aims at turning talks into all-out peace drive” [Two sides prepare for negotiations] |
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84 May 30 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher had secret plan to handle strike” [Government had plans for strike three years ago] |
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84 May 31 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Scargill’s arrest and pit riot shatter peace hope” [hopes for settlement fade with violence; Scargill arrested] |
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84 Jun 1 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher sees no early settlement” [Thatcher sees no prospect of settlement; insists she will not intervene] |
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84 Jun 4 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unions angry over Government’s strike vote scheme” [anger over intent to tighten law on strike ballots] |
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84 Jun 7 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “The myths mined by Mr Scargill” [Ronald Butt article] |
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84 Jun 15 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “One in 3 defiant says NCB” [limited return to work by striking miners; one in three still working however] |
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84 Jun 18 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Steelmen to defy Scargill threat” [Steel unions to reject cutting down coal supplies] |
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84 Jun 20 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher refuses to yield over Orgreave mob” [criticises mob violence at Orgreave] |
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84 Jun 22 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “MacGregor in “no victory” warning to NUM” [insists NUM will not win in letter delivered to 178,000 miners] |
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84 Jun 23 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Government backs MacGregor tactic” [government gives public support to attempt to break strike] |
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84 Jun 25 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pits strike hits growth forecast” [strike reduced GDP growth] |
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84 Jun 28 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Steelmen defy Scargill” [Llanwern steel workers reject Scargill call to halt protection] |
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84 Jun 30 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “No accord between NUM and steelmen” [no agreement on coal supplies to steelworks] |
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84 Jul 2 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Ministers step up attacks on pit violence” [government condemns intimidation] |
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84 Jul 3 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Steel unions snub miners and pledge to keep up output; Coal Board says 2,000 men volunteer for redundancy” [Steel unions reject sympathetic action; 2000 accept redundancy] |
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84 Jul 4 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Lorry drivers defy union advice” [lorry drivers ignore calls to strike] |
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84 Jul 4 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 1)] |
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84 Jul 5 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 2)] |
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84 Jul 5 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Benn told: stop licking Scargill’s boots” [Benn questioned in Commons over support for Scargill and not steel leader] |
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84 Jul 6 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Help the miners beat Scargill” [David Hart article] |
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84 Jul 6 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 3)] |
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84 Jul 7 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 4)] |
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84 Jul 10 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Dock strike starts today as pit talks fail again; MacGregor in appeal to NUM” [Dock strike over supply of coal; appeal to accept settlement] |
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84 Jul 11 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners set to defy court over militant meeting” [miners leaders ignore high court ruling] |
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84 Jul 11 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB advert in Times” [How the miners have been misled (part 5)] |
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84 Jul 14 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NUM faces more legal action” [NUM faces legal action over plans to introduce “courts” for rebel action] |
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84 Jul 16 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board dismay over talks” [dismay over militant tone during negotiations] |
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84 Jul 17 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Crisis talks bring in 14 ministers” [MISC 101 secret meeting] |
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84 Jul 18 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “NCB closes ranks on “final offer” to miners” [NCB supports MacGregor's no surrender policy] |
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84 Jul 20 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher makes Falklands link - Attack on enemy within” [coverage of “enemy within&rdquo speech] |
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84 Jul 20 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “There IS A War On” [Times leader article] |
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84 Jul 23 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Pit talks halted for board's campaign” [NCB halts talks during back-to-work campaign] |
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84 Jul 25 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Working miners in secret campaign for a return to pits” [dissident pitmen tour coal fields in attempt to end strike] |
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84 Jul 27 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Labour MP seeks pit strike ballot” [MP calls for national ballot] |
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84 Jul 27 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board’s offer rejected, strike may be stepped up” [miner leaders reject NCB offer] |
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84 Jul 30 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Unions seek TUC campaign to defeat Thatcher” [industrial action campaign proposed to bring down government] |
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84 Aug 1 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Seizure of NUM funds start today” [confiscation of funds to pay fines] |
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84 Aug 1 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher onslaught on Kinnock reunites Tories” [Thatcher speech re-establishes authority] |
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84 Aug 3 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “MacGregor ready to withdraw “final” pit offer” [failure of back-to-work campaign; MacGregor expected to withdraw offer] |
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84 Aug 3 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Thatcher softens tone on mines” [PM sees no reason for strike continuing; inflation expected to reduce once ended] |
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84 Aug 6 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Coal board refuses to grant permits for private sector mining” [NCB doesn’t grant private open-cast permits] |
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84 Aug 6 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Rail unions to ask TUC for blockade to support miners” [attempt to seek halt to movement of coke, coal and iron] |
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84 Aug 8 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Rebels seek order for secret ballot on miners’ strike” [High court to be asked to enforce national ballot] |
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84 Aug 9 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Union coordinated picket violence, says police chief” [police blames NUM for violence] |
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84 Aug 11 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “National docks strike threatened as union tries to stop coal ship; secret committee attacks NUM” [breakdown in NUM/Steel talks; secret Lancashire working miner group criticises NUM] |
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84 Aug 11 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Miners to ask TUC for total support as funds run out” [NUM appeals to TUC for funds] |
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84 Aug 14 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Coal: “Drift back at Bilston Glen heartens NCB” [increasing return to work] |
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