these paring its manoeusre and forge action to take. THREE YEARS, TWO YEARS and NINE MONTHS IN PRISON -are the savage sentenocs handed down on picket leaders Des Warren, Eric Tomlinson, and John M. Jones in the first of the Shrewsbury trials on Wednesday. The working class is already pre reply to this brutal attack. The Liverpool Trades Council has called a one-day aren strike for today. The London Shrewsbury Defence Committee has call- trinis. ed on London building worken Only to stop today, und they will he joined by London dockers. The dockers have ulso announced their willingness to lake part in an indefinite stoppage in the new year if the building workers give them a lead. The London Defence Committee is meeting upain next Friday to decide what further These vicious sentences will touch called on off a wave of indignation throughout the labour movement. Even the foreman of the jury which convicted the Shrewsbury defen dants was moved to stand up in open court and denounce sentenoes as "disgusting'. The crucial question over the next ten days will be how to turn this indignation into a mass, organBed morement which can overturn the sentences, und stop these La movement of the sort which freed the Pentonville can free these men. One-day strikes will not be enough, What is needed is definite commitments from all sections of the labour movement, but especially from building workers, for indefinite stoppages from | Janeary. The London dockers picketing the Home Office on Wednesday building workers give them a lead. Yet the Communist Party rejected demands at London Defence Committee that very same evening for indefinite stoppage of the bullding trade in the new year. But this * precisely what every organised section of workers is waiting for!
The Executives, and all repional bodies, of UCATT and T&G must call for indefinite stoppages in the new year. But militants must not wait on these two unions, Shrews bury defence committees and all rank-and-tile trade. union bodies must use the next l0 days to hold as many factory gate meetings as possible to get convenors and shop stewards meetings to pledge industrial action for the new year The Tories have conducted a vicious provocation at Shrewsbury - Turn Shrewabury into the spark which is needed to set the whole working class ablaze!