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Scotland and Yorkshire, as well as Newcastle.
Only a few demonstrators were allowed into the public gallery as all ten defendants were committed to the Crown Court for trial on E50 bail.
BIGGEST TRIAL This is the bigest single trial of pickets since the Strewsbury 24. McAlpines, who wete instrumental in getting the Shrews bary lads sent down, ase abso the major employers on the Eldon Square site. Scuff olders have only recently been unionised on Tyneude, and the outcome of the trial and the cigh teen week-oid scaffolders strike at Fidon Square will be crucial for effective union organisation in the area.
This attack on pickets is just the latest (and the bigpest) move in the bosses offensive aguinst picketing since the Lahour Government came to office. A successful campaign to pot the charges apainst the New castle Ten' dropped could be the DARING! REALLY HOW EXCITING NO MORE SHREWSBURYS' was the shout that went up from 200 scaffoldes and other militants demonstrating outside Newcastle Magistrates Court on Monday, 10 March. Inside 10 pickets, dragged off the Eldon Square picket line by police in late January, were facing commital proceedings on various Contingents joined the demonstration from the Barking and Dagenham Shrewsbury Defence Committee and the Wigan Building Workers Action Committee, along with militants of the International Marxist Group from turning point in citorts to get strike action to Free die Shrewsbury Two Meanwhile the Fidon Square strike committee have advised scaffolders th roughout Tyneside, whe have heen out in support over the past seven weeks, to re tum to work. An official spoksman for the strike committee issued a statement that read, in part "Pickets will semain al Eldon Square IF any foom of scab labour is brought in from any area to work any where in the porth cast these men will be called upon again. At the time of writing it is not yet clear what this will mean for the strupee, but the scaffolders have been under intense pressure in the past weeks from the Transport and General Worker Union officials who have done all in their power to broak the strike. Only an aquiry 15 promised, in place of the scaffoldors" carlier determination that there would be Tyneside, including the men at Eldon 5qWOMEN'S YEAR concerning your 90T421 601R linas.
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