[: As firemen faced a hristmas on strike…]
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Whatever the outcome of this Wednesday's court hearing on pit productivity deals-and it virtually certain to be another rebuff for those supporting democratic decisions within the NUM-Arthur Scargil and his Stalinist allies have done miners nothing but harm by taking to the courts.
In seeking to involve the law and the bourgeois state in the internal affairs of the NUM, Scargill is not only abandoning the vital independence of the workers' movement, but also diverting from the pay struggle.
Biased in PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Scargill effects of two years of wage controls and the prospect of a third that has driven miners action, while others to take this decision'.
Those delegates who wanted 'immediate action' on wages held the correct position.
Left-talking
Bitterness at the endless delays and left blather on wages by Mclahey and other left-talking Executive mem bers bubbled over last week in Solsgirth colliery, Fife, where miners were driven into a reactionary strike demanding an incentive scheme.
Every day wasted in the courts, every day without a clear programme of action on the pay claim will add strength to NCB and right wing propaganda for incentives.
Already Scargill, McGahey