Scope and Contents Typescript copy of a letter from Ronald Waterhouse, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, to the Secretary of the Miners' Federation [Arthur Cook], stating that in order to help settle the coal dispute, the Government had made a conditional offer to the Federation of setting up a National Arbitration Tribunal to review any settlement under which miners were asked to work more than seven hours. Waterhouse goes on to say that the Federation had rejected this offer once, and that the...

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Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC on increasing French, Belgian, and particularly, German coal production, to prevent mass unrest in western Europe that winter.

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Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he fully agrees with Truman's proposal [on the threatened coal famine in Europe]. Accompanied by explanatory note.

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Reports and correspondence between Gridley, John Eaton Griffith [Chairman of the European Coal Organisation] and John Taylor [British Commercial Counsellor, Prague] on Gridley's visit to Prague to try and persuade the Czechs to join the European Coal Organisation.

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Letters and telegrams from Gridley to John Eaton Griffith [Chairman of the European Coal Organisation] and Sir Nigel Ronald [Assistant Under-Secretary, Foreign Office] and telegrams between the Foreign Office and British Embassy in Warsaw on Gridley's visit to Warsaw and a coal convention at Katowice to help persuade the Poles to join the European Coal Organisation.

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Reports by Gridley on his visit to Warsaw and a coal convention at Katowice to help persuade the Poles to join the European Coal Organisation. Includes lists of ECO contracts with other Eastern European countries and reports on Polish coal production.

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Briefings and arrangements for a visit to the Northern region, Tyneside and Sunderland, including the Swan Hunter shipyard, Tyneside and Woodhorn Colliery Museum and Blyth Valley civic centre [Northumberland]. Also includes rough notes of a meeting with the British Labour Group on the first anniversary of the European elections.

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Mainly National Coal Board photographs from NK’s visit to the mine at Tondu [Wales], 1985, also including a visit to Metrolite Industries, Wigan [Lancashire] and Sheffield Information Technology Centre [Yorkshire].