End of the Welsh miners’ conference and retirement of Mick McGahey

Title

End of the Welsh miners’ conference and retirement of Mick McGahey

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

10 Jul 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:03:11

Description

Report looking back at the week’s conference of Welsh miners: division over the 6-day week, ballots on strike action; the retirement of NUM Vice-President Mick McGahey. McGahey speaks about the inevitability of conflict, NUM President Arthur Scargill talks about the strike over miners who lost their jobs, and McGahey speaks again about his time in the mining industry. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Arthur Scargill; Mick McGahey

Keywords

Trade unions; Labour disputes; Arthur Scargill; Mick McGahey; Conferences; NUM; Coal industry; Wales; Coal miners; Working time; Retirement; British Coal; NUM Wales

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