Demonstrators picket Glasgow Council meeting last Thursday demanding the dropping of all charges against the arrested anti-fascist militants The Labour Council now stands alone before the City's labour movement. Dick Dynes, the Labour boss and architect of January's military strike-breaking against the Council's dustcart drivers, has tried to cover up his complicity by whining about "the law and morality of politics" "impartiality' and 'free speech'. But Dynes. impartiality' does not explain why the Council has maintained a secret ban on the letting of halls to Clann na h'Eireann for the last year On Thursday 29 May, 300 people picketed the Council Chamber demanding a ban on all future hall-lets to fascists. All major union district committees, the Scottish NUM, and the Clydeside Confederation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Unions (180,000 members) were represented among the 29 organisations which put their case before the Council.
An IMG leaflet was distributed and several hundred copies were paign. taken by trade union delegations for distribution in their workplaces.
•A trade union workers' enquiry •The disbanding of the police •The expulsion of the Dynes clique from the Labour Party and the Council Labour group.
The Glasgow Trades Council and many other labour organisations have offered legal and financial assistance to the defendants, and the Trades Council is holding a meeting this week to co-ordinate a united defence campaign. The miners of Polkemmet colliery have called for a one day strike of all Scottish miners when their branch president and Scottish NUM vice-president David Bolton goes on trial. Discussions are also taking place among Glasgow transport workers for similar action when T&GWU District Secretary Hugh Wyper appears in court.
The Glasgow IMG, which org anised a picket outside the first hearing on 26 May, is playing a leading part in the defence camThousands of copies of the IMG leaflet are being distributed throughout Glasgow this week, and factory gate meetings are being organised to build the benefit rally on the eve of the first court appear ance for the remaining 13 defendant on 10 June