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...Heath had earned his most serious problem in one respect by his unbending resistance to the miners' demands during the first four weeks of the strike. They had asked for a 25% catch-up raise over their minimum pay range of $36.80 to $78 a week, far beyond the 8% national wage guideline that Heath was determined to hold. But the miners' well-justified grievances (see box, following page) had won them wide public sympathy, and their determination matched Heath's own. As the coal supplies of power stations ran down, the government belatedly acted, won emergency...
...whole country would be in ruins within a few weeks, and nobody really wants that." But whatever the miners do, the power cutback will continue for at least another week while coal stockpiles are built up again. Whether the strike has had a more lasting effect on Ted Heath's political career remains to be seen. It certainly upset the popular notion that while Labor has a heart, the Conservatives are the ones who can run a country. The strike made it seem to many Britons that the Tories were not doing that particularly well...
...common dedication to left-wing politics. But never before have they been able to force their will upon the nation. When the men first threatened to strike, said Tom Nicholson, the secretary of the Easington branch of the miners' union, "it was just the miners versus Heath. Now it's the trade unions against the Tory government. It's getting back to 'them...
...deprived them of reward for their increased productivity, and their income declined from $17 to $19 a day in 1954 to about $13 today. In relation to other basic tradesmen in Britain, the miners dropped from third place in wages to twelfth in ten years. Ever since the Heath government came to power two years ago, the miners' wages have not kept up with increases in taxes, rents and social service contributions-let alone the rising cost of food and other goods...
...Thatcher dismisses her critics easily: "People who resort to personal attacks usually do so because their arguments are so weak. I will not be hounded. I will never be driven anywhere against my will." Though her critics may be numerous, Prime Minister Edward Heath is not one of them. He recently rejected a demand for her resignation and said that her regime had been "a period of remarkable achievement...