Eight building workers, five of whom will reappear among the Shrewsbury 24 at the Crown Court there in October, have been on trial in Mold, North Wales, over the last ten days. The men ure charged with causing an affray, intimidation, and damage to property when picketing the Brenng Bay dam site during last year's building strike.
The court is of course supposed to be seen as neutral, but the judge and prosecution have so tar had a hard time in trying to maintain this Tic tion. The defence seemed a bit scepFurther indications of the class nature of the law came out when the prosecution charged that the pickets To Bone to brom Day WILDESC intention of intimidating the workers there to stop work. Not so, replied the defence: the Brenig Bay workers had already agreed to strike but had gone back to work after being misinformed that the strike was over. But, said Mr Drake, QC, It was not necessary under the law on intimidation to prove any violence, simply that the presence and conduct of the accused caused workers to stop against Pompidou's Communist Leagu