Portsmouth conference votes for picket pool

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Tamoax strike in Sentember showed need for picket pool Portsmouth and Havant Trades Councils sponsored a conference on picketing and the Shrewsbury trials last weekend.

Attended by some 40 delegates, it was addressed by Jack Dunn, Area Secretary of the Kent NUM, Paul Davidson, one of the Birmingham 5, Frank Judd, local Labour MP. and a representative from une lecal department or tne fuc Fi conTerence unanimously passed a resolution from the Lee Park branch of the AUEW for strike action should any of the Shrewsbury 24 be jailed. It was agreed that the local Shrewsbury Def ence Committee should organise factory meetings and circulate a regular bulletin. Shop stewards committees will send delegates to the defence conmittee. It was also decided, especially in lignt or the police attacks on pickets during the recent Tampax strike, that a picketing pool should be created.

The conference also agreed on the need for an action committee against Phase 3. Its first job will be to conduct solidarity work for the miners, arrange for accommodation tor miners Tying pickets and win more backward sections of workers locally to their support.

It remains for the Trades Councils to ratify the decisions.