Word: ashington
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...They are often good union men who support the campaign, but they say they just cannot go on." So explained Matt Hall, financial secretary of a National Union of Mineworkers local in Ashington, in the north of England, as more than half the country's 186,064 striking colliers went back to work last week. The number of returning miners was the largest since the stoppage began a year ago. On Sunday the N.U.M. leadership made it official: a special conference of union delegates, meeting in London, voted to end the most violent and divisive walkout in Britain since...
...pleasure to come back to W ashington ... but it is a great relief not to have to assume the duties of an office. . . . I suppose you are interested in what I have been doing while I have been away. . . . I have done a little writing that'you can read if you want to?I have read some of your writing [laughter]. And of course I have done a little fishing. I think I have caught 200 speckled trout this spring...
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