New attacks on pickets

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Eldon Square Site, Haymarket, 9am, march to Crown Court, Market St.

Further details from: Eddie Brady, 86 Benwell Lane, Newcastle 15(0632 32365)

Photo: RAY SMITH (FL)

One of the solidarity demonstrations during the Eidon Square strike SCAFFOLDERS 82I4 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE UNiTY » STRENGTH! HOTEIS workers. MASS PICKET assault on police.

27 August. Another eleven pickets have been arrested. This time it's at Cammell Laird shipyards in Birkenhead, Merseyside, where 200 construction workers have been in occupation or on strike for-six The arrests came last Thursday and Friday when police charged the picket lines to make way for two coaches of Wimpey's building The picketing workers had originally occupied the site in February after it was announced that their employer, Peter Lind and Simon Limited, had lost the contract. The men demanded that they should be allowed to keep their jobs whoever won the contract They only moved out of occupation a few weeks back following a High Court injunction.

Because they demanded the right to work eleven of them now face charges, including With 7,000 building workers unemployed in Liverpool alone, the Trades Council has called for a mass picket on The concerted attack on picketing, occupations and other forms of workers struggles will intensify as the economic crisis deepens.

But the TUC has no policy to defend pickets. Once again this year's TUC will simply pass a motion from the Engineering Section of the AUEW calling on the General Council to 'use the full strength of the British trade union movement to secure the release of Des Warr The same happened last year, and despite countless resolutions and delegations to the Home Secretary, Ricky Tomlinson remained in prison till paroled, while Des Warren is con tinually harassed by the prison authorities. Why? Because the General Council did not attempt a single serious mobilisation of the "full strength' of the trade unions.

More Shrewsburys are now in the making The ten pickets arrested at McAlpine's site at Eldon Square in Newcastle last January are at last being brought to trial on 1 Sep tember. Eldon Square was the first major attack on pickets since the infamous Shrews bury trials.

Since then there have been major attacks on printworkers pickets in Peterborough, an on journalists picketing the offices of the

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