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1985 Jan 21 - 1985 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 382
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85 Feb 21 Thu Coal: Walker statement (NCB talks with TUC Representatives; MT talks with TUC; NUM rejection of TUC-NCB proposals) ['I deplore that the generous and reasonable offers now available to miners continue to be rejected by the NUM executive'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tue Coal: Walker letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (response to Heathfield's question: whether NACODS agreement is available to NUM) ['this agreement was available to the NUM...[but was] rejected by the NUM'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 28 Thu Coal: Walker press statement ('final offer' to NUM on negotiated settlement of coal dispute) [settlement proposed by the TUC and NCB 'will provide miners with the greatest influence they have ever had on the future of any individual colliery'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mon 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 24 Thu 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 25 Fri 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]
85 Jan 25 Fri Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Welsh Secretary attending MISC101) [will press to attend regularly in the future] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 11 Mon Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Colliery Review Procedure”) [Department of Energy proposals on procedure for review and closure of pits] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Industry Bill”) [options for introduction of legislation] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fri Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) [disagreement between Walker and Chancellor of the Exchequer over timing and content of Bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 19 Tue Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-TUC Representatives-Ministers and various others) [miners' strike: options for settlement of coal dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mon 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 22 Tue 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 24 Thu Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Sequestrators’ Action”) [sequestration of NUM funds: interference by the Luxembourg Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 24 Thu 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 Fri Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Luxembourg: NUM Receivership”) [talks with Luxembourg Ambassador over apparent Luxembourg intervention in sequestration of NUM funds: 'the [Luxembourg] government’s concern was not to intervene politically'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fri Coal: NCB representative Spanton letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (miners' strike: NUM-NCB negotiations) ['essential to draft the parameters of the discussion at an informal meeting'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Thu Coal: Office of the Chief Secretary letter to No.10 (“Coal Strike and Spring Supplementary Estimates”) [costs of the coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 4 Mon Coal: MT letter to Pauline Linton of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign (miners' strike: NCB-NUM talks) [MT addressing Linton's concerns: 'there can be no fudging of the central issue, and no betrayal of the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 5 Tue Coal: Henry Steel letter to Butler (“NUM: Sequestrators”) [update on proceedings in Dublin; concern about disclosure of HMG and Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrators] [declassified Dec 2014]