picketing.
at Adwest...
THE STRIKE at the Adwest plant in Reading is at a critical stage. Fiftyeight workers - many of them women and Asian -are fighting for reinstatement. Police action against pickets has not only anticipated Prior's law, it has gone beyond it.
• They have denied the workers any right to picket.
The courts: have backed them up win conviculons and fines for the first of the 26 arrested at the last mass picket, which was held on 14 July.
..and Brixton By Geoffrey Sheridan D-DAY approaches for Phil Cordell and Richard Cleverley, the Civil Service union activists who have upset the establishment by such ungentlemanly pursuits as participating in a Parliamentary lobby on behalf of their CPSA branch.
Both face dismissal, and will appear before the Civil Service Appeal Board on 13 and 14 August.
Support for their reinstatement unprecedented the Service.:
Unofficial strike action at the DrIXIOn benefit office, where both are employed, is now in its fifth week. 2110 …over £7.000 has been raised to mount the defence campaign.
None of this is thanks to the CPSA leadership, which has put out a circular denouncue cac unollidar strike The police, too, are doing suffered great loss recently with the death of ting Sree Lekha Kazi.
cious for some time after a road accident at Easter.
was indicative of the wat against she fought for black peo ple.
In her home town of three-year-old Oldham her defiant recerd wwas equal to none; from encouraging black workers to challenge racism in the mills, to setting up Asian women's