Word: coal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revealed that Arthur Scargill, the militantly Marxist leader of the miners, had made several secret visits to the Soviet embassy in London, apparently in an effort to win greater Soviet support. The Soviets, however, appear to have stopped short of granting one Scargill request - to halt their coal and oil exports to Britain...
...whether or not fresh Soviet financial help is forthcoming, the tide in the bitter coal strike is turning against the union. In the past three weeks, more than 13,000 striking miners have quit the picket lines. Compared with the early days of the strike, when only 40,000 of the nation's 189,000 N.U.M. members were working, more than 63,000 are now back at their jobs, according to the government's National Coal Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer...
...want to leave it at that. Even though Scargill claimed last week that the embargo was continuing, the Kremlin was noticeably silent on the subject. Though Britain sees no possibility of a cutoff, it still wants no talk about any thing that could threaten the large quantities of Polish coal that it needs in order to help keep its power stations running this winter. And Moscow is highly sensitive to charges that it uses energy for blackmail. Embargo or no, the fact that the Soviets made the threat gives West European governments good reason to recall the Reagan Administration...
Meanwhile, the coal board has reminded strikers of the prospects of up to $1,764 in wages and back holiday pay by Christmas for miners who return to work by the beginning of this week. For striking miners who have lost an average $7,500 each, the reminder was a shrewd ploy. In contrast to the 200 miners a week who had been returning to their pits by late October, more than 7,000 men have returned over the past two weeks...
...date the conflict has cost 60 million tons in lost coal production. And with some 125,000 miners still out, the strike is far from over. In Yorkshire last week, strikers overturned and wrecked automobiles, hurled gasoline bombs at a police car and a police station for the first time. Thirty-five policemen were injured and 45 strikers arrested...