In the forefront of the light to delend picketing is the recently formed Sheffield & Rotherham Committee for the Defence of the Shrewsbury 24. For last Friday's demonstration in Shrewsbury it mobilised over 30 mutants, including four stewards from Firth Brown, two delegates from Davey United, and five representatives from building sites in the ures. Since a handful of building workers in the area took the initiative in setting up TAC COmBEETC, EE HAS DECO SCLEYC JO raising money for the 24. On May Day it collected 44 towards the defence. It has raised donations from trades councils, shop stewards committees and the issue ATTENTIVENESENTS RENATISI of the AUEW. The Committee clearly understands the need to continue helping the defence fund, in view of the reluctance or tne trade aron barcaucracy 10 engage in any activity on Shrewsbury. In order to deepen and extend the campaign, the Committee is planning to org unise a Conference on Repression and Picketing for late June. One of the ComBULLE BOCEEDELUELES ARTIL conference would be centred on Shrewsbury but would discuss the whole issue of state repression and what mean ures could be taken against it', The Committee hopes to get speakers from among the Shrewsbury 24, miners, deckers and other groups of workers who have first-hand experience of the problem. Further details will be published in tuture issues of Red Weekly.
Red Weekly 25 May 1973 Page 4 UCA