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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 Oct 27 We Major Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“Industrial action in the coal industry”) [miners’ ballot, Ministers’ policy] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 1 Mo Major Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Industrial action in the coal industry”) [“continue to plan against the possibility of trouble next year”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [withstanding a coal strike] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 22 We Major Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“There is no intervention which it would be useful for the Prime Minister to make”] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 23 Su Major Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“the need for substantial pit closures is not in dispute”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [assistance to NCB] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“The South Wales NUM Strike Demand”) [“it is by no means certain that, if a strike were to start, it would ‘spread like wildfire’”] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 21 Fr Major Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [aid to NCB] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 21 Fr Major Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“NCB Pit Closures”) [developments at Snowdown and in South Wales] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 18 Fr Major Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“NCB Pit Closures”) [NUM ballot likely] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 10 Fr Major Coal: No.10 record of conversation (“Coal Industry”) [NUM-NCB pay talks] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 14 Tu Major Coal: Scholar minute to MT (NCB negotiating strategy) [media reports] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 22 Fr Major Coal: Scholar minute to MT (“Miners’ Strike Ballot”) [government preparedness] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Coal: Scholar minute to Lawson PS (“Power Station Endurance”) [action to be taken] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 3 Th Major Coal: Scholar minute to King PS (“Asfordby”) [application to mine] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 7 Mo Major Coal: Scholar note to MT (Asfordby decision) [no announcement while strike threatened] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 17 Th Major Coal: Owen minute to Scholar (“National Coal Board Objectives”) [“opportunity to propose more ambitious objectives”] [declassified 2013]
83 May 10 Tu Major Coal: Scholar note to MT (pit closures) [NCB plans postponed] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 9 Th Major 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 24 Fr Major Coal: Lawson minute to Howe (“NUM Wage Negotiations”) [“request to all colleagues to maintain the lowest possible profile on all this”] [declassified 2013]