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1982 Sep 9 - 1983 May 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1092
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 7)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 330
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82 Sep 9 Thu Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“Coal Industry”) [pay talks, power station endurance] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 9 Thu Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Mineworkers’ Wage Negotiations”) [“If the miners accepted such an offer it would be a significant blow to Scargill”] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 9 Thu Coal: Vereker minute to MT (“Miners’ Pay”) [NCB-NUM negotiations] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 10 Fri Coal: No.10 record of conversation (“Coal Industry”) [NUM-NCB pay talks] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 14 Tue Coal: Scholar minute to MT (NCB negotiating strategy) [media reports] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 16 Thu Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“NUM Wage Negotiations”) [“whether it is better to allow the pay offer to the miners to be presented as higher than it is”] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 23 Thu Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“NCB’s EFL for 1983/84”) [proposed increase] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 24 Fri Coal: Lawson minute to Howe (“NUM Wage Negotiations”) [“request to all colleagues to maintain the lowest possible profile on all this”] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 27 Mon Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Miners’ Pay”) [“satisfactory degree of confusion about the figures”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 14 Thu Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“The Miners”) [“they have no genuine pay grievance”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 19 Tue Coal: Ingham minute to Vereker (“The Miners - Government Publicity”) [“we are letting Scargill get away with too much”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 22 Fri Coal: Scholar minute to MT (“Miners’ Strike Ballot”) [government preparedness] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 22 Fri Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“The Miners”) [“miners are at their highest level in relation to average earnings”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 25 Mon Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Questions: The Miners”) [should accept pay offer] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 26 Tue Coal: Vereker minute to Butler (“The Miners”) [power station endurance] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 27 Wed Coal: Ingham minute to MT (“Presentation - Protectionism: Coal”) [“we need to ensure that we do not get a rash of silly protectionist stories”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 27 Wed Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“Industrial action in the coal industry”) [miners’ ballot, Ministers’ policy] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 27 Wed Coal: Vereker minute to MT (“Preparation for a Miners’ Strike”) [“Far better to give the miners the impression that we can cope very well”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 28 Thu Coal: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on possible miners’ strike) [“the police would face a major task in handling mass picketing”] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 1 Mon Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Industrial action in the coal industry”) [“continue to plan against the possibility of trouble next year”] [declassified 2013]