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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...
...bloody confrontation between militants of the 180,000-member National Union of Mineworkers and the state-owned National Coal Board entered its 36th week, the most disruptive labor unrest the country has witnessed since the General Strike of 1926 was no longer just a power struggle between miners and mine managers over the issue of unproductive collieries. Instead, with economic losses mounting and with television providing scenes of charging mounted police and rock-throwing strikers, the dispute had become a national trauma...
...most observers of the long-running strike, the psychological advantage appeared to be tilting toward the coal board. One reason was the disclosure late last month that the N.U.M. had sought financial assistance from, of all sources, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Last week in London, Scargill unabashedly made a similar appeal for assistance at the Soviet embassy. TASS said that Soviet miners have contributed half a million pounds to the British miners' union. The strike was also weakened by last month's decision of the smaller mine safety supervisors' union not to join the N.U.M. walkout...
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...