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Sir Robert Haslam on the 6-day week (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir Robert Haslam, Chairman of British Coal, talks about the 6-day week and the possibility of using non-NUM labour to keep open the Margam pit, in South Wales. Female interviewer not identified.
Arthur Scargill on non-NUM miners at Margam pit (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
NUM President Arthur Scargill on how the use of non-NUM miners at Margam pit could provoke a bloody reaction - he says it would make Wapping (i.e. the printers’ dispute) seem like a Sunday School picnic....
TGWU conference - one member, one vote (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
TGWU conference delegate Kevin Coyne(?) speaks against the one member, one vote system; General Secretary Ron Todd speaks in favour of it. Male reporter not identified.
Arthur Scargill at Welsh miners’ conference, on disciplinary code (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
NUM President Arthur Scargill, speaking from the Welsh miners’ conference, on how the British Coal Board’s code is not acceptable, the miners sacked during a dispute, and the unfair treatment of sacked...
British Coal and reaction to the 6-day week (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the Welsh miners and reaction to the 6-day week and to British Coal’s plan to consider non-NUM miners for the running of the Margam pit. NUM President Arthur Scargill says this would be a bloody...
Neil Greatrex on UDM working Margam pit if NUM won’t (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Neil Greatrex, leader of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, on National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) President, Arthur Scargill’s claim that if other unions take over at Margam pit, there will be violence....
End of the Welsh miners’ conference and retirement of Mick McGahey (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report looking back at the week’s conference of Welsh miners: division over the 6-day week, ballots on strike action; the retirement of NUM Vice-President Mick McGahey. McGahey speaks about the...
Colin Brown on BT service levels (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Colin Brown, BT’s Director of Corporate Planning, on how they are doing all they can to provide a modern telephone service. He talks about prices, service, the modernisation programme, the...
Bob Reid on British Rail job cuts and the future (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with British Rail Chairman, Robert (Bob) Basil Reid on job cuts and the future. He talks about where the cuts will be, why they are happening, whether queues will increase because of the cuts, the...
Funeral march for IRA men (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special; Speech
Report on the illegal funeral march in Andersonstown to comemorate the IRA men who died in the hunger strike six years ago and the eight IRA men killed in the SAS shoot out in Loughgall. Includes actuality...