Leaving the court - from 3nd left to right, accuned building workers Phil Beyer, Graham Stevenson, Pred Aralie, Paul Davidson, and Six hundred people demonstrated outside the court when the fist building workers and three ATV camcramen accused of conspiracy to trespass after the occupation of a "Jump" labour agency in February appeared before Birmingham mapistrates on Monday, There was an unexpected turn in the case when the accused were merely instead of being committed for trial tenanted to appear in the Crown Court as anticipated. Apparently the prosecution are unwilling to proceed further with the PICKETS GET MORE case until they know the result of an appeal currently before the House of Lords over the occupation of the Sierra Leone High Commission last year, when "conspiracy to treapass charges were also used.
This further remand also holds advantages for the ruling class in that 23 July is right in the middle of the "industrial fortnight', when all the major factories in the area are closed for the holidays, It is hoped to mount a substantial picket of building workers then, but obviously the tum out will not compare with MonNAME ....
Photo: Chris Davies (Report) day's, when delegations included Birmingham, Coventry and Stoke Trades Councils, UCATT Midland Region, Post Office Engineering Union, Rover Shop Stewards Committee, Chrysler (Ryton), as well as the International Marxist Group, I.S., etc. speakers after the hearing was Pote Among the Carter, chairman of the Birmingham building workers shop stewards" committee, who stressed the need not just to mobilise in support of those workers but to link the case to others of a similar nature taking place, in particular that of the Shrewsbury 24 probably not as bad as it seeme: More valuable alties are likely to be the Leed! Rans & File Teecher group, who are deme nding active support from Leeds NUT and an inqury into conditions at the The trial of another man charged after the police raids in Coventry on 13 April was postponed on Monday after the court was fold that one of the main prosecution witnesses, a Detective Chief Inspector, had gone on a camping holiday and could not be traced. The case, where Timothy Canry is charged with the illegal possession of 100 rounds of 0.22 ammunition, was therefore conveniently postponed so as to coincide with the Coventry industrial holiday, and also transferred away from Warwick to Worcester Crown Court. Meanwhile one of the Patrick Burke, has been granted bail again after an application to a judge in Chambers. Burke, the last to be arrested, had pro viously been out on bail until the com mittel procedings. Five of the athers had their bail applications refused seventh is stilt to be heard. and Coventry Prisoners Defence Committee can be contacted at: 27 Paynes Lane, Hillfieks, Coventry. (0203 589911. People's Demouracy leader Michael Farrell, sentenced to eight months in jail fat 'causing a breach of the peace' during a march through Belfast last February, had his appeal turned down on Tuesdey, The torm of eight months is no accident -anything longer would have allowed Farrell to chim political prisoner status.
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