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410:, was set up by the government in February 1972, as the strike was drawing to a close. It reported a week later. It recommended pay increases of between £4.50 and £6 per week. Lord Wilberforce defended the increases, which represented a 27% pay rise, by saying that "we know of no other job in which there is such a combination of danger, health hazard, discomfort in working conditions, social inconvenience and community isolation." Mine workers held out for an extra £1 per week, but eventually settled for a package of "fringe benefits" worth a total of £10 million. 278:(NCB), and he introduced a policy concentrating on the most productive pits. During his ten-year tenure, productivity increased by 70%, but with far fewer pits and a much reduced workforce. In 1956, 700,000 men produced 207 million tons of coal; by 1971, fewer than 290,000 workers were producing 133 million tons at 292 collieries. Despite this, the NCB's coal activities were still running at a loss in 1970, putting pressure on the board to hold down pay increases. 258:. Miners' wages had not kept pace with those of other industrial workers since 1960. The strike began on 9 January 1972 and ended on 28 February 1972, when the miners returned to work. The strike was called by the National Executive Committee of the NUM and ended when the miners accepted an improved pay offer in a ballot. It was the first time since 1926 that British miners had been on official strike, but there had been a widespread 338:, Freddie Matthews, was killed by a lorry while he was picketing on 3 February 1972, and a huge crowd attended his funeral. The non-union lorry driver had mounted the pavement to pass the picket line and struck Matthews in the process. In the aftermath of the death, the picketing in the Doncaster area became more violent, with clashes reported with the NACODS members at Markham Main and 285:
of the United Kingdom had broken down. In 1960, according to one study, "miners, of whom there were still half a million in 1960, enjoyed historically unprecedented standards of living." According to another study, while the real net income of an average miner in 1957 with a wife and two children was
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were also contacted to provide off-duty staff and volunteer groups to cater for the coal convoys. The role of the volunteers was to drive in convoys to break the picketlines blocking the supply of coal to the Scottish power plants. The plans were never put into place because the dispute was brought
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The strike lasted seven weeks, with NUM leaders agreeing to a pay deal on 19 February, which the union claimed to have wrung about 15 extra pay concessions from the Coal Board - over and above the Wilberforce inquiry recommendations. Rank-and-file NUM miners agreed to the pay offer on 25 February,
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During the 1950s, the wages of miners went up from a prewar position of 84th to near the top in the league table of the wages earned by industrial workers, and by 1960, miners' wages were 7.4% above the average pay of workers in manufacturing industries. During the 1960s, however, their pay fell
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The strike was characterised by the miners sending flying pickets to other industrial sites to persuade other workers to strike in solidarity, which led to railway workers' refusing to transport coal and power station workers' refusing to handle coal.
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The result was characterised as a "victory for violence" by the Conservative Cabinet at the time, in reference to some clashes between miners and police and to some throwing of stones and bottles at lorries trying to pass the pickets.
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Ackers, Peter, and Jonathan Payne. "Before the storm: The experience of nationalization and the prospects for industrial relations partnership in the British coal industry, 1947-1972-rethinking the militant narrative."
308:, did not strike. Following some confrontations with NUM pickets, the National Coal Board adopted a policy of giving leave on full pay to any members of NACODS who faced aggressive intimidation on the way to work. 1078:
Hughes, Rosaleen Anne. "‘Governing in hard times’: the Heath government and civil emergencies–the 1972 and the 1974 miners’ strikes" (phD dissertation, Queen Mary University of London; 2012.)
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During a parliamentary debate on the strike in its second week, both Labour and Conservative MPs praised the miners for the forbearance shown during the mass pit closures in the 1960s.
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It was the first time since 1926 that British miners had officially gone on strike (although there had been unofficial strikes, as recently as 1969).
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returning to work on 28 February, which officially ended the strike. The pay concessions from the Coal Board came more than a week after the
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approximately 22% above that of his male counterpart in manufacturing, that fell to approximately 2% below the manufacturing figure in 1969.
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in the Yorkshire coalfield." He threatened to "advocate violence" if an immediate government statement were not made on Matthews's death.
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A volunteer force was planned in Scotland to break the miners' pickets during the strike. After release of government papers under the
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Competition from cheap oil imports arrived in the late 1950s and the coal industry began to suffer from increasing losses. In 1960
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Phillips, Jim. "Industrial relations, historical contingencies and political economy: Britain in the 1960s and 1970s."
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The inadequacy of the government's response to the strike provoked re-evaluation of emergency planning. The
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behind other workers, and by 1970 miners were earning 3.1% less than the average worker in manufacturing.
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base was to be used for the unit. They were to have between 400 and 600 trucks and drivers.
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and were later joined by thousands of workers from other industries in Birmingham.
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was declared on 9 February, after the weather had turned cold unexpectedly and
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The History of the British Coal Industry, 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry
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The strike occurred because wage negotiations between the NUM and the
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Index

UK miners' strike (1972)
UK miners' strikes
Strike action
flying pickets
Civil disobedience
Battle of Saltley Gate
State of emergency
COBR
National Union of Mineworkers
British Government
National Coal Board
Joe Gormley
Arthur Scargill
Sam Bullough
Edward Heath
Derek Ezra
police officers
National Union of Mineworkers
Edward Heath
United Kingdom
unofficial strike in 1969
Alf Robens
National Coal Board
National Coal Board
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers
state of emergency
voltage
national grid
Hatfield
Doncaster

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