Miners consider tougher stand
NZPA-Reuter Sheffield The leaders of Britain’s coalminers decided yesterday to call a national conference to consider ways of tightening a strike that has E'ysed two-thirds of the industry since March. The National Union of Mineworkers’ said that the conference of union delegates would be held in private in Sheffield, northern England, on Monday and would be followed by five rallies throughout Britain to explain the position to members.
Another round of peace talks on the strike by threequarters of Britain’s 180,000 miners collapsed on Thursday. The British Secretary for Energy, Mr Peter Walker, condemned the union’s leader, Mr Arthur Scargill,
yesterday for refusing to budge on his demand that no pit should be closed on economic grounds. Britain is still awaiting official confirmation that Moscow has imposed a fuel embargo against London in support of the striking coalminers.
An embargo could seriously affect relations, according to informed diplomatic sources.
The British Embassy has asked the Soviet authorities for clarification that Moscow‘would send no more coal or oil to Britain as a gesture of support for the coalminers.
Diplomatic sources said that it was still not clear if the trade union chief who made the announcement was outlining an official Government act
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