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Notes of a conference between the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and representatives of the Mining Association and Miners' Federation on the report of the Royal Commission on the coal industry, on subjects including: recruitment and labour, and ending subsidies for the industry; requests by the Association and Federation for clarification on the report, particularly on whether the industry was to be reorganised; recommendations of the report.Typescript transcribed from shorthand notes.

Scope and Contents Typescript copy of a letter from Arthur Cook, Secretary of the Federation, to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, on the final decision of the Miners' Federation on the coal dispute, informing Baldwin that the miners had voted to reject the Government's terms for a settlement, by 460,806 votes to 313,200. Cook forwards the resolution passed by the Federation Conference recommending all districts to immediately open negotiations with the local mine owners with a view to finding an agreement,...

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Note of a meeting between representatives of the Miners' Federation and Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland [Minister of Labour], on the settlement of the coal dispute, particularly the loss of benefits to striking miners.

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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].