Dispute resolution on the supply of coal in 1970-1980-s (on the example of the Kemerovo state arbitrage)

This paper handles an activity of Kemerovo State arbitration court which worked under settlement of a dispute about coal delivery in 1970 - 1980. Local arbitral authority objectively revealed shortcomings of economic management, which had not any proxy in making decisions in economic sphere. The key industry of Kuzbass was coal industry, so the considerable part of disputes in arbitration court contained coal delivery. There were more than thousand recipients' actions a year about coal misleading. The reasons for such situation in arbitral's judgment were loading of coal without weighting and mala fide public individual. At last at the end of 1970 -1980 shorts of coal delivery run up to 20 - 40% of shipped weight and disputes of such questions contains nearly a half of similar dispute on underdelivery. Arbitral awards gave positive but temporal effect. Coal-mining enterprises delivered bills to consumers to pay nearly 30 thousand tons of coal which consumers had not received. Given explanations concerning coal shortage modified from "blowing" to stealing. These tones of coal were used for "auxiliaries" or simply disappeared. The task solution of safe coal delivery was not solved in that economic system. Our research revealed that the number of actions depended on seasons. On the example of coal industry arbitrage practice in 1970-1980 years, showed that plan-based economy was characterized by producer dictation and his factual irresponsibility, imperfection technology of energy resource shipment, "shadow" activity. Generalized analytic information of arbitration court was given to public prosecutor's office, leading party bodies and ministry but these departments had not undertook any real actions to normalize the situation. The taken actions gave only temporary result.

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