hold its final rally in Trafalgar Square, as the Secretary of State for the Environment, Wir Crosland, has again turned down down their application without explanation. A picket of his offices on Wednesday 26 March was therefore arranged at short notice by TOM supporters. The demo, this Sunday, will start at Clerkenwell Green at 1.00 p.m. LAST WEEK two very different came out of the Labour Party.
The Prime Minister, Harold Wils on, in anmouncing the date for the elections to the Constitutional Convention, had this to say: "The Convention will be elected by the people Icing the date of the Convention, satements on the stuation in Ircland Wilson was very careful not to mention those fateful words power sharing, for every single one of the faccions of the loyalist CUDC has rejected this concept. Indeed, Paisley has declared that the ourcome of the Convention will he No UPS statement that: All members of the community have the same right to freedom under the law. All bear the saine responsibility to maintain the Jaw. In other words all participants in the solution that comes from the Convention must take responsibility for the entry of the RUC into the lifel tive dockers were goaled -they were seleased only in response to the thrust of a gen aral strika. Now the Shrewsbury pickets languish in prison.
The Incitement to Diseffaction Act is a threar to Teen speech; It who denies sold. ien the right to receive information themselves and engage in political discussion. Thi gonepiracy laws are horrendous norinet rules of widence can be ignored when conspiracy charges are brought and those fond guilty con actually be imprisoned for The use of the British ariny in Northern triland sgeines the working clae of both communities can be sean as a preview of how it may be used this side of the Irish Sea All trade unionists should remember that if troops are brought in to break stills and are given leaflets urging them not to serve in this way those leafleter too could find themselves charged with Incitement to Disaffection So the case of the 14 now facing conspiracy wharges is very much the business of the labour movemont. We therefore linge all our follow trade unionists to campaign in every possible way, on the shop floor and at brench, district regional and national level, tor the immodiate dropping of these iniquitous cherges and the abolition of the conspiracy laws and Inchement to Disaffection Act.
We should be glad to hear from any trade unionists who wish in any way to supp ort the Defend she 14 Campaign.
Solidarity, poace and froedom Bit Hetherington John Hyatt (defandant. NUJ Frank Keeley Paul Seed *defendant, NUS)
Bab Thomas Gweye Williare (defendant, NALGOI (defendant, NALGO)
(defendant, TOWU) (defendant, NALGOI len defendant, TGWU)