Miners to vote
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LONDON, February 22.
Britain’s 280,000 coalminers were expected to vote overwhelmingly tomorrow in favour of ending a six-week strike that crippled the nation’s industnal and domestic life, the Associated Press reported. The miners will vote in a secret ballot whether to accept or reject pay increases averaging 20 per cent which were awarded last week by a Government-backed inquiry into Britain’s most damaging labour dispute since the 1926 General Strike.
Local leaders in eight different parts of the country gave strong backing yesterday to acceptance of the settlement, as recommended
by the National Union of Mineworkers.
Even in areas like Yorkshire and Kent, where the strikers were most militant, only a handful raised their voices against the deal. With a massive “yes” vote likely to eme-ge when the results of the full-scale ballot are declared, probably on Friday, the way seemed clear for a return to work next Monday.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32848, 23 February 1972, Page 17
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156Miners to vote Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32848, 23 February 1972, Page 17
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