Scott's workers face a bitter prospect

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Scott workers last August.

LO Gormley. Recently Alex Ferry, societaly of Lue Engineering Unions Con: ederation, informed the miners' union executive that the Scott's had been terminated since he end of July, was totally unofficial and should not he supported.

Scott's workers now ae spec. even more bitter than the Arctic conditions ot the Doncaster picket line. They approach ine court hearing being =rought by boss Arthur Snipe, under the Tories' :981 Act, blacking camin the pits under severe attack.

It is a bitter irony and an ominous bolter to le future that all this took place as ine newly elecied miners' president, Arthur Stargill, Ilauc likening 1981 and the fight against Tebbit to 1971 and he fight against Heath's Industrial Relations Bill.

The record shows that Scargill has ignored the Scott's dispute moment the picket started in Doncaster.

An open commitment :rom Scargill, giving the tall backing of the whole Yorkshire area NUM for blacking and for regular delegations to Socialist Challenge 7 December 1981 paged.: There has been a vicious twist to the knife that was plunged into the backs of the Laurence picket lines would have transformed the situation and Torced Snipe negotiate from a position pit leaderships are now completely exposed their area managements who are threatening large scale lay offs if blacking Conculues In this situation and with massive fines or even Scott's workers, and especially the strike leaders named, do not feel they can defy the High Court inmunction Even support trom Labour MP' has been sabotaged by the engineering union's head office. They have put enormous on their sored MPs, especially following the defeat of the Scott's appeal the recently recalled National Committee. top of this, the MP's have been mesmensco that, with the House of Commons Spending, the matter is 'subjudice'.

apparently has prevented them raising the the House of Commons or coming on the picket line.

It is a step in the right direction that Michael Meacher and Charles Morris have pledged to get one hundred signatures for an