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...Athabaska region. In addition, the company is mining coal in Illinois, digging uranium ore in Wyoming, and producing fuel rods in Seattle for nuclear power plants...
...work hours, including plants owned by Chrysler in Belvidere, Ill., American Motors in Kenosha, Wis., and General Electric in Louisville. Unable to get carcasses, meat-packing plants from Colorado to Illinois shut down, further reducing supplies and setting the scene for additional retail-price hikes. In West Virginia, five coal mines were closed for lack of fuel. Fearful drivers for oil companies refused to take their trucks out, and service stations in many cities closed...
...strike last Sunday long after it became clear that Heath would not come close to meeting their demands for a 28-per-cent wage increase. Before going on strike the miners pressed their demands by refusing to work overtime. That job action reduced production in the nationalized coal industry by nearly 40 per cent, throwing an already faltering economy even further out of whack. Heath's enactment of a three-day work week was more a reaction to the miners' slowdown than to anything else...
...present difficulties, Heath found himself in dire political straits. Once the miners announced their intention to strike, he had no choice but to dissolve parliament and call for new elections--the first in Britain since 1970. What with oil shortages, I.R.A. terror bombings in London and the reduced coal production, Britons had a pretty dreary Christmas this year. Heath tried to inspire the electorate with speeches reminiscent of Churchill's inflated World War II rhetoric, but only with the barest success. The coal miners's strike now threatens England with a depression unparalleled in the last 40 years, and that...
...coal miners' firm stand in the face of Conservative Party opposition is not without historical precedent. Throughout the 1920s the coal mines were consistently the scene of conflict between labor and management. Between 1921 and 1924 the industry prospered and the workers received a reasonable pay increase through the influence of Ramsey MacDonald's first Labor government. When foreign competition lowered industry profits, management decided to recoup its losses by cutting workers' wages. The solution was completely unacceptable to the miners, and despite intervention by a newly elected Conservative government, the miners walked off the job. The government's position...