Coal stocks frozen by Scots pickets
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Thousands of miners have moved in every coalfield to picket power stations and solid-fuel way to being ive days of the leaders should be mobilizing the whole working class for MINERS in Scotland won the battle of the power unions means that fuel supplies in the East of Scotland are at a standstill.
Engineer drivers in ASLEF are in the front ranks of official support.
Leslie McNaught, secretary of the Scottish divisional council of ASLEr, told me: 'We have been told by our executive to give the miners maximum support. We are interpreting this as meaning that no coal is to be moved.' on picket Both men are married with families. Mr Shaw has eight children and has worked in the pits since he left school.
Pickets who saw the incident chased after the lorry which drove away • rapidly without stopping.
They said it was the driver's second attempt to cross the picket line — he had already made an unsuccessful bid to enter the plant on Tuesday.
A six-man deputation from the National Union of Mineworkers headed by full-time official Jack Lee from Barnsley and area councilman Arthur Scargill later saw union representatives at the Coalite plant.
George Morral, Transport and General Workers' Union secretary, assured the delegation that lorries with non-union drivers would not be loaded by his members at the plant.
Union members have been refusing to cross the miners' picket line.