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...plans of its own, including a new centralized intelligence unit and mobile police flying squads. It was also considering whether to revive the old Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act of 1875 in order to impose long prison sentences on disruptive pickets. In a television interview, Prime Minister Edward Heath talked of asking Parliament to deny Social Security benefits to wives and children of strikers...
...least in its essentials, now appears destined to be repeated in Britain, although the denouement this time may be even more traumatic. The current dispute began last November when the country's 247,000 coal miners refused to work overtime until they received substantial wage increases. Then Heath declared a state of emergency, cut power to industry and businesses by 25%, and put the country on a three-day work week to conserve fuel. Last week the miners lashed back by calling for a vote to strike...
...million British workers. If the government would relax its Stage III anti-inflation guidelines for the miners, said the T.U.C., other unions would refrain from using it as a precedent for demanding raises above the 10% guideline limit. But after a perfunctory meeting with the T.U.C. last week. Heath flatly rejected the compromise...
...walkout could come as early as Feb. 10. Said Arthur Scargill, 36, the Yorkshire Mineworkers leader: "I think the fight will go on and become one of the most bitter, bloody battles in the history of the trade union movement." The problem was that there remained serious doubts whether Heath had done everything possible to avoid the showdown. TIME has learned, for example, that the miners are still ready to settle for an amount halfway between the wage increase they are seeking (which the government says is 30%) and the government's offer of a 16% increase...
...hardening of positions followed a week of vacillation by Heath's government. First the Energy Department raised the specter of sewage flowing in the streets as a result of power shortages (sewage pumps are electrically powered), then it announced that fuel supplies were ample enough to go back to a four-or five-day week. That possibility has now been withdrawn in the face of a strike. Then Heath was undecided whether or not to call for an immediate election. That, too, has been abandoned at least for the time being, probably because the Tories fear that they might...