IMG militants rally in Piccatilly after a successful occupation ol the French Tourist Office on Saturday Speakers at the demonstration will include official representatives from work'. And on the charge of causing an affray, the prosecution only bed to show that the accused were present, adding to the numbers and encouraging a show of force: It was this same Mr Drake who opened by saying how anxious he was to make it cleur that the case did not involve an attack on the right to picket!
Interestingly cough, be then proceeded to follow all this up with an attack on the adion committees formed during the strike to organise Flying pickets etc. These bodies, be complained, were not part of the union". And, the Building Workers Charter, some ot whose militants played a leading role in them, was 'not a trade union movement, not run by trade union officials. Mr Drake seems to bave a lot in common with the UCATT and TaG leaders, who have refused to linance the defence of their own members and