Mold trials end - no convictions

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Another four building workers have been acquitted of intimidation in the trials of pickets at Mold Crown Court. This brings to twelve the number who have appeared and been cleared on major charges arising out of picketing during last year's strike.

What was intended as a softening up process for the Shrewsbury 24 tral due to start in October, has therefore turned into something of • disaster for the ruling class. Seven of those acquitted will also he appearing in the Shrewsbury trial.

However the struggle in defence of picketing is by no means over. As one of those tried at Mold, shop steward George Murray, said after his acquittal, I consider these trials a witch-hunt against picketing in geneSUBSCRIBE!

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NAME. ral. They have started with the hamJets and villages of North Wales, but the real attack will be on the big battalions like the dockers and miIn particular, there is still an urgent need to build for a major national response to coincide with the opening of the trial of the Shrewibury 24. Encouraging reports are coming In about the setting up of local defence committees to fight the case. Liverpool Trades Council has decided to set one up. as has Stirling & District Trades Council following a circular on the case sent to all trade union branches by local members or the International Marxist Group. In • letter announcing a meeting on 14 August to set up a defence committee, Trades Council secretary Harry MeGhie says that, We would ask PICKETS GET MORE all branches to be represented by as many people as they wish as the defence committee will attempt to be as broadly based as possible. The question wasalso raised at a TUC summer school of 100 trade unionists in York last week after a group of them had attended a meeting on the case addressed by an IMG speaker One of them, a member of the construction union UCATT, told the meeting how a defence committee bad been set up in Portsmouth, and following discussion all those present asked to he put in touch with the main defence committee. They aiso asked local IMG members to produce a short leaflet on the which could be distribuled to the other workers on the course, and next day raised the bssue with Len