New peace moves will made today to end the miners’ and power engineers’ pay rows as Britain enters Day Two of a State of Emergency. Coal Board chiefs will put a three-point offer to union leaders of 270,000 miners this morning .

1. Output bonuses of up to 3 1/3% on work now pay later basis.

2. A threshold agree ment linked to the retail prices index.

3. A reshuffle of the current £44 million offer to give a bigger benefit to the lower paid.

Leaders of 18,000 power engineers who are banning out-of-hours repairs to back their demand for higher payments, are talking with the Electricity Council to explore ways of securing a vetoed agreement giving higher overtime pay inside the rules of Stage Three. The outcome of the talks will be considered at a formal meeting between the two sides next Tuesday.