NUM branches, Area Councils, and the National Executive, This is the way to free the Shrewsbury lads and delend the right to picket. STRIKE FOLLOWS SACKING He told Wednesday's meeting: Since I was elected convenor l've met consider. able hostility from every manager, In July last year we learned I was being investigafed by management, who were compelin a dossier on my movaments."
Barnett, a momber of the Barking & Degenham Shrewsbury Defence Committee, considers that the management is Student picket lines at Essex University, supported by trades unionists, are turning back all goods from the campus. This action, decided by a mass meeting of 300 students on Wednesday, is being taken in resp onse to the sentencing of the first of 32 students charged with participating in the occupation last term in support of the grants campaign.
While some of the victimised students are on as many as 19 charges, the first student to be dealt with had only one, and he was sentenced to expulsion. The sentence was suspended, provided he takes no future part in any 'undesirable" activities.
When this was announced, Ibe Students' Union decided to with draw the students sitting in on the disciplinary hearings, and to stop all goods entering the carapus, The Union is demanding that all charges are dropped.
Support for this demand has come from memhers of the T&GWU and ASTMS on the campus. The Secretary of Colchester Trades Council has also given the students his support and he is to approach other members of the council for theirs, The university administration has reacted sharply to this mounting pressure on its disciplinary powers. In an effort to turn campus workers International week. verdicts! Name against the students, shop and canteen staff, who are providing a reduced service because of the effectiveness of the pickets, The administration is now threatening to close down the whole campus.
What now shows every sign of being a militant challenge to the trials is in marked contrust to what happened with they began last The Broad-Left-based Students Union executive at first felt that it was sufficient to have three student representatives watching the bearings. When the first guilty! verdict was announced, the executive proposed a 24-hour occupation of the vicechancellor's suite - calling on the judges to explain the logic of their In an amendment, IMG members called for: No victimisation, end the trials, and that a warning be issued that the occupation would only be the beginming if others were found guilty. This was passed, and when the sentence became known on Monday, the student body proved it was prepared to mount a real offensive agailst the trials,
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