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Third round for the Reads

9th February 1985
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

GLOUCESTERSHIRE haulier! George and Richard Read an entering their third round cr legal action to prevent blacking of their lorries in South Wales.

The Reads have alread) successfully taken out injunc lions against the South Wales National Union of Mineworker( and the Transport and Genera Workers' Union because the blacked their lorries on tht South Wales coal convoy am at the Cardiff docks.

This time the Reads art preparing to take action agains the blacking of their lorries b) NUM members at a privately owned smokeless fuel plant.

The NUM workers at tht Maxiheat smokeless fuel plan at Llantrisant in Glamorgan art sticking to a blacklist of haulier: which have crossed pocke As a result, the Reads hay( been blacked since the sum mer. Despite negotiations will Road Haulage Association am Advisory, Conciliation and Arbi tration Service assistance, talk! are continuing with the Soutt Wales NUM to resolve tht problem.

But George Read told Ct. that he expected to be "goinl with an injunction in the nex few weeks".

He said that their lorries which had been collectin smokeless fuel from the plan for 15 years, were now blackec • March 14 and 15 have beei set by Sheriff T. F. Russell a Kilmarnock Sheriff Court for thi hearing of the appeal by Yuil and Dodds of Strathavei against the ban imposed by thi Kilmarnock and Loudoui District Council against use o certain roads within the Distric (CM, January 12).

The matter arose when coa was being carried by road fron Hunterston to Ravenscraig.


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