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  1. Sir Robert Haslam of British Coal on a 6-day working week (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Sir Robert Haslam, Chairman of British Coal, on what will happen if miners vote against a 6-day working week. Interview covers how the Welsh NUM will react, other unions that have shown interest, whether the...

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  2. Arthur Scargill on pit closures and the 6-day week (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Gereral Secretary of the NUM, Arthur Scargill talks about how the 6-day week is a disaster for miners and for the British people. He says there will be pit closures, not enough jobs for all the miners, and...

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  3. NUM Welsh delegates’ conference (1987)

    Genre
    Speech

    Coverage of the NUM Welsh delegates’ conference. NUM General Secretary Peter Heathfield, Welsh leader Terry Thomas and NUM President Arthur Scargill make speeches. Heathfield speaks about the need for...

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  4. Welsh miners’ conference and the 6-day week (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    On the 6-day week. NUM General Secretary Peter Heathfield talks about rejecting the proposal; delegate John Connen(?) talks about the human reasons for rejecting it; Leicestershire’s Jack Jones says that...

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  5. Sir Robert Haslam on the 6-day week (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Sir Robert Haslam, Chairman of British Coal, talks about the 6-day week and the possibility of using non-NUM labour to keep open the Margam pit, in South Wales. Female interviewer not identified.

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  6. Arthur Scargill on non-NUM miners at Margam pit (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    NUM President Arthur Scargill on how the use of non-NUM miners at Margam pit could provoke a bloody reaction - he says it would make Wapping (i.e. the printers’ dispute) seem like a Sunday School picnic....

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  7. Arthur Scargill at Welsh miners’ conference, on disciplinary code (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    NUM President Arthur Scargill, speaking from the Welsh miners’ conference, on how the British Coal Board’s code is not acceptable, the miners sacked during a dispute, and the unfair treatment of sacked...

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  8. British Coal and reaction to the 6-day week (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on the Welsh miners and reaction to the 6-day week and to British Coal’s plan to consider non-NUM miners for the running of the Margam pit. NUM President Arthur Scargill says this would be a bloody...

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  9. Neil Greatrex on UDM working Margam pit if NUM won’t (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Neil Greatrex, leader of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, on National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) President, Arthur Scargill’s claim that if other unions take over at Margam pit, there will be violence....

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  10. End of the Welsh miners’ conference and retirement of Mick McGahey (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    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...

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