U.K. COAL STRIKE
Welsh mines stop work (N.Z.P.A. -Reuter—CopurlehU LONDON, November 9. Nearly one half of Britain’s 285,000 coalminers are expected to be on unofficial strike this week to support demands for higher pay. Miners from South Wales, one of the country’s major coalmining areas, voted last night to stop work today, and will join other miners in Northern England and Scotland who refuse to accept the Government-owned National Coal Board’s latest pay offer.
The 38,000 Welsh miners announced their decision as union leaders warned the nation of “untold hardship to miners and the general public.”
More than 100 pits will be shut down today, and the National Union of Mineworkers will be urged to back the stoppages at a meeting later this week. As more mines close, a weekly coal loss of up to two million tons is expected. Britain’s Central Electricity Generating Board said last night that it has coal stocks for only six weeks of an average winter.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 19
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