IMGpapers 1968–75

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Police invade IMG offices

Red Weekly No. 45, 29 March 1974 · p. 1 of the scan · 428 words

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Trade union leaders, backed by a chorus from the capitalist press. have given Labour's budget a warm welcome.

count on a good response from the mass of working people for carrying out their cconomic policy, and TGWU leader Jack Jones has described Labour's brew as 'a very good sociatist budget."

crats, eager to stampede their membership into a wage deal with the Isbour Government, and avoid the prospect of strugde.

Certainly, the sugar costing s TUC general secretary Len Murray has said that Labour can now All of this is just wishful day-dreaming on the part of the union bureauIn their third raid within twebre months, Coventry police forced their way into the bouse at 27 Paynes Lane, which contains the Coventry IMG office, at 1,00 um last Saturday IMG member Paul Shevlin, who - lives in the bouse, was thrown back against the wall by the invaders four plainclotbes men and four uniformed policemen with two dogswho then proceeded to ransack che building. Cushions were torn off the sofa, bedding thrown off the bed, cupboards emptied, and their contents left strewn over the floor, No reason was ghen for the raid, and when challenged, no warrant was produced. After 30 minutes spent wrecking thi house the police left, taking with chem s quantity of books and pamphlets, which they then left strewn along the pavement for several hundred yards.

Coventry ING offices after police 'visit" - without a warrant.

It seems that the jelephone at 27 Paynes Lane was tapped, as 5bertin was told that a call he made shortly befoce 1.00 am had been the signal for the raid.

This is only the latest in a long record of harassment directed against the ING in Coventry, including surveillance of the premises, and the following of individuals. Palice have taken the names of JNG mumbers and others distributing leallets about the Corentry Seven, and the Shrewsbury 24. A building worker who had been given copies of the latter was followed home, and the police burst into his hoese and removed the leaflets. Earlier this your an Enland Revenue investigation into 27 Paynes Lane was ordered, on the grounds diat it was a "Marxist H.Q. Offices"

In April Dis year four plainclothes men raided the premises, and took away a large quantity of papers and documents, including passports and personal docum ents. Again, last September, three plain booed the four occuponts. On buth these socasions the police produced warnets No chargos were made as a result of thes raids.

On this latest occosion the police did

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