The conference will be held on Saturday, 22 September, in Liverpool. Delegates will be welcome from all trade union bodies - trades councils, shop stewards and local Shrewsbury defence committees.
for the Shrewsbury 24. In the chair is London building worker Lou Lewis.
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NAME_ The trial of six of the 24 defendants, all charged under the conspiracy laws, will open in Shrewsbury on 3 October.
The Liverpool Trades Council decision represents an important step forward Bill Jones of the Defence Committee speaking at a meeting in London's Conbury defence committees, and many other trade union bodies across the country as possible are represented there.
Further details and credentials can be obtained from: Simon Fraser, Secretary, Liverpool Trades Council, 33 Hatton Gardens, Liverpool L3 2AA. tel. 051-236 1778. perfectly clear what were his activities during these events.
An article appearing in the Workers' Press of 22 August by Editor Alex Mitchell, contains a number of serious insinuations, damaging to the reputation of any so cialist.
These are that the only evidence that the fire-bombings in London were operations of the Provisional IRA, was statement that I received from the Irish Republican Publicity Bureau. and that the authenticity of this statement was GOUDITU!.
The article further alleged that the above would be used as an excuse ror a police round-up of Irish Republicans in Britain.
The real situation is as follows: At 2.55 p.m. on Sunday, 19 August, I received a statement from the IRPB stating that the Provisional IRA accepted responsibility for a number of fire-bombings in London's West End.
Being satisfied that this statement came from the Provisional Republican movement. | next checked the claims con tained within that statement.
This I did, as would any journalist, by ringing the Press Office at New Scotland Yard. This course of action was also necessary to safeguard myself against a possible charge of being 'an accessory after the fact.' The long-drawn out saga then began; with the Yard's Press Office attempting to play down the story so as to protect the multi-million pound turn over of London's West End in the midst of a major summer shopping spree. On Radio London on Monday, I chal lenged the authorities to explain why they still denied political signifi cance of the bombings At 5.00 p.m. that evening. Yard contacted me to state that they WIShed TO interview me. Mr. Mitchel should be aware that the actual choice before me when faced with a 'request of this nature was either to go with my SolIcitor under his protection or to be hauled in without this protection and held incommunicado for several hours I told them that I had received the state ment, the contents of that statement, and i described my attempts to get from the Police Press Office a statement as to whether inere nad been any tire-Doma found in London.
At no time did I give the police any infor mation could denT source. other than that contained in the statement from the /RPB Mr. Mitchell in his article makes the further outrageous claim that I 'identified the voice on the phone which gave me the IRPB statement. Mr. Mitchell should pro duce the source of this alleged statement The last important factual point to be dealt with is this. Was the statement from the /RPB genuine? According to the Irish Press of 22 August, the authenticity of the statement is now confirmed.
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International Marxist cribed to IMG militant, Gery Lawless. These reports have created some con fusion. We print the following statement by comrade Lawless in order to make