[44] Note of meeting between Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Employment and General Secretary, TUC, 15 February 1972, PREM 15/985, PRO. The coal industry had huge strategic importance in terms of power generation and domestic heating. The 1972 Miners Strike.
The NUM had instructed the union's white-collar section (COSA) to stay at work to handle wages for the week in hand and to process tax rebates.
[86] Secret Service, ‘Influence of Subversive Organisations in the NUM and the Miners’ Strike', 24 February 1972, PREM 15/986, PRO. A detailed and informative account of the successful nationwide strike of UK miners in 1972, written as an academic paper by Jim Phillips. The request was ignored. coal; Jim Phillips; mining; NUM; UK; Scotland; PDFs; strikes; Share. The miners potentially had immense … The NUM ballot resulted in a 96.5% majority to end the strike. 1972 and 1974 Miners' Strikes. [107] Duncan Dee, SHHD, ‘Miners’ Strike: Longannet Power Station, Further Minute', 14 February 1972, HH 56/96, NAS.
The strike also showed the country how important coal was to the country's economy.By 1973 however, the miners had moved from first in the industrial wages league to eighteenth. The strike began on 9 January 1972 and ended on 28 February 1972, when the miners returned to work. There were two major unofficial strikes in the pits, in 1969 and 1970, before the 1972 official miners’ strike, which was itself characterised by a high level of militant rank-and-file activity, more or less independent of the union leadership.
One might say that, having been led into radical activity, the miners were led out of it: a bit of an overstatement, because in part it was the miners who pushed the low-level buraucrats into action, but they certainly could have done more if enough of them had wanted to (they had the country in the palm of their hands, after all).The events at Saltley showed to the State that its forces were not adequately organised. [61] Note of meeting between Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Employment and General Secretary, TUC, 15 February 1972, PREM 15/985, PRO.
The NUM organised a ban on overtime; the NCB employed privately contracted labour whilst rearranging shifts. Instrumental in that process was the 1972 miners’ strike which represented the first national action by the National Union of Mineworkers since 1926. [38] Sir Dennis Barnes, Minute of Meeting at DTI, 13 January 1972, LAB 77/84, PRO. The building workers’ strike in 1972 was turned into a national strike by unofficial … The 1972 UK miners' strike was a major strike involving a dispute over pay between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Conservative Edward Heath government of the United Kingdom.
[69] Kelly to Hole, 13 January 1972 and A. H. M. Mitchell, Note on Energy position, 11 January 1972; both in HH 56/75, NAS. [31] ‘Election, UK President, 1971’, William McLean, Secretary, NUM Scotland, to Branch Secretaries and Delegates, 14 June 1971, Acc. 1972: Miners' strike turns off the lights Many homes and businesses will be without electricity for up to nine hours a day from today, the Central Electricity Generating Board has announced. The victory came through a certain autonomous content of struggle, though it has to be said much of it came down to low-level NUM organisation on the part of the leftist, often CP, bureaucrats. The 1972 UK miners' strike was a major strike involving a dispute over pay between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Conservative Edward Heath government of the United Kingdom.