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PREM19/1579
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 16)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 382
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85 Jan 21 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 21 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mo Major Coal: NCB record of conversation (NCB-NUM Representatives) [miners' strike: NCB and NUM consider potential resumption of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mo Major Coal: Wybrew minute to Redwood (“Coal Dispute”) [statistics on striking miners and coal production: 'The picture is encouraging...'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mo Major Coal: Turnbull note to MT (call from Irene McGibbon of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign) [concern about NCB-NUM talks: 'working miners will be sold short'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mo Major Coal: Hatfield minute to Butler (reports on the strike: follow-up actions) ['I can confirm that those responsible for producing these reports are well seized of the need to be alert to the opportunities for follow-up action'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 22 Tu Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 22 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 22 Tu Major Coal: NCB press release (“‘Think Again’ Call to Miners Leaders”) ['we do not want another round of talks in which the NUM yet again persist with their one impossible demand'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 We Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 23 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 We Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 24 Th Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 24 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 24 Th Major Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Gregson) [“Coal Dispute”: NCB-NUM talks; NUM’s 'position still fell a long way short of what was needed for a satisfactory settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 24 Th Major Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Sequestrators’ Action”) [sequestration of NUM funds: interference by the Luxembourg Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 24 Th Major Coal: NUM Secretary Heathfield letter to NCB Director of Industrial Relations Ned Smith (miners' strike: NUM willing to negotiate with NCB) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 25 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 4th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Coal: Redwood minute to MT (“The Coal Dispute”) [future of the coal industry and resolution of the miners' strike: 'Let’s not snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal - Millstone or Miracle?”) [future of the coal industry: 'The immediate human costs of [re-structuring the industry] would be large, but so would the corresponding gains in competitiveness'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Coal: No.10 Duty Clerk note to Turnbull (views of “Miners’ Wives Back to Work Campaign” on NUM-NCB talks) ['there should not be a rushed settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014]