'I AM THE NUM,' said Herbert Brewer, the receiver appointed last Friday to run the NUM. wasn't joking. The court order which installed him not only gives him control of the union's funds, but the power to intervene in any decision with financial tions right down to whether or not a phone call can be made.
By this decision the courts have tried to rule that Arthur Scargill is no longer president of the National Union of Mineworkers and the executive no longer in effective control of the union.
There is only one other where the law has dealt in such a way with a trade union: in the 1950s, when the executive of the electricians' union was removed for alleged ballot rigging.
The entire egal miners is a pure political contrivance. Foulstone and Taylor, began court proceeaings on Ine grounds lal Dranci meetings has not been held regularly and the area elections not held on time.
The judge declare the And he unofficial implica- personally being fined beginning of October.
Scargill's fine anonymous donor. mains unpaid.
Foulstone got
situation to say the strike is unofficial court can nold past but all case against ine courts ballot or a return to work.
Yorkshire.
trustees of ruling class interests?
used this technicality entire Yorkshire strike An injunction was granted instructing the national executive to stop urging members not to cross picket lines. The union's refusal to obey led to the £200,000 fine and to Arthur Scargill £1000 at the was paid by re For this Taylor and their sequestration Sequestration means that as long as the union is in contempt — bv refusing the onto its money, security against further contempt. Furthermore it must accept not merely all future decisions the including demands for has pushed the courts into the open. After this blatant attack, who can doubt the role of the courts as
Socialist Action 7 December 1984