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...gasogene, trying to ignore the chill worrying my old Jezail bullet wound. It was not a very keen period for the world's first consulting detective; like all Englishmen, he only worked a three-day week. We could get little fuel, and warmed ourselves by burning pictures of coal from newsmagazine accounts of the miners' strike. Suddenly there came peremptory knocking at the door of our humble rooms at 221-B Baker Street. In strode an American visitor, whom I shall call the Secretary of Hope...
...fuel sources will take care of another 20%. To fill the remaining 40% gap, the nation faces two likely choices. It can import much more oil and gas-and pay heavily in terms both of balance of payments and political dependence on foreign countries. Or it can turn to coal, which now provides 20% of U.S. energy -and pay heavily for developing this rich but problem-ridden resource. Right now, the betting is on coal...
...action. The trainmen have said they will stage another one-day strike this week if the National Railways Board does not resume negotiations. To help cope with the crisis, Prime Minister Heath last week created a new Department of Energy with sweeping powers over offshore oil, coal, gas, electricity and nuclear energy. He named his closest adviser, Lord Carrington, the outgoing Secretary of Defense, to head...
Basically, Britain's present state is not so much an energy crisis as a breakdown in industrial relations. The 270,000 coal miners have refused to work overtime until they get a settlement giving them basic increases of $18 to $22 on weekly wages ranging from $57 to $83; the Heath government has offered an increase of $5 to $6 a week. Anything more, said Heath, would exceed the 11% limit of his Phase III counter-inflation plan, plus cause other unions to demand similar boosts...
...Raymond Brookes, chairman of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd. engineering group, is one of a growing number of industrial leaders who feel that the time has come for Heath to settle with the miners: "I've been down three coal mines in my life, and each time I've said, 'If I had to work there, I'd want paying to go to work and paying again when I'd done it.' " If opposition within Heath's own party continues to grow, he may find himself fighting not just the miners...