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A LIST of hauliers which have crossed miners' picket lines has been distributed to some local authorities and trade unions in the hope that they will black the use of them, the National Union of Mineworkers has confirmed.
An NUM spokesman told CM that the list has been circulated in North East England, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Humberside, South Wales, the Mid lands and Lancashire. The response from councils and trade unions on not using the blacked hauliers has been "patchy" but generally good, she added.
The list was compiled by members of the public who had spotted hauliers crossing picket lines.
But three prominent coal hauliers — HazeIls Haulage of Newport, and Richard Read and George Read of the Forest of Dean — are not on the national list.
But union sources suggest the Reads would be unlikely to appear because of the successful injunction which they have taken out against Transport and General Workers' Union blacking and South Wales NUM obstruction.
Transport and General Workers Union Scottish regio nal secretary Hugh Wyper told
CM that he had a local list from the NUM of around 30 to 40
hauliers which had crossed miners' picket lines. He said that they were mainly English.
He admitted that with many of the firms named but without addresses it was difficult for local authorities and trade unions to work from the list anyway.