ming up. He judged that the Glasgow police have the right to decide that the intention of any demonstration has changed from its original purpose From this, he concluded that the police then have tne right to arrest en masse any persons associated with the demonstration.
In his summing up on the second trial, Wilson spelt out exactly what this attack means. His ruling was that picketing unrelated to industrial disputes is illegal. If unchallenged, this ruling will set a precedent in Scots law. The intention is that the repressive decision on picketing passed in the High Court last year against the Prebble's pickets in London should now be brought to bear on the Scottish labour movement.
Meanwhile, a travelling circus of fascist provocateurs and police thugs continue to lie their way through the court. The Glasgow Trades Council has issued a statement in which it had no qualms about saying of the first trial: The police evidence was clearly proved to be lies.' A startling case in point is that of Peter Porteous, the only person accused who has so far been acquitted. Two Support Unit (Glasgow SPG) cops claimed to have arrested him in the crowd. But witnesses and photographs proved that Porteous was arrested twenty minutes earlier, on the opposite side of the road, by Chief Superintendent Dunford, the director of the police riot, assisted by Blackburn fascist George Hughes Dunford had denied in court having anything to do with Porteous' arrest The "Not Proven' verdict on Porteous indicates the truth about the whole frame-up - the police evidence, from top officers to the ranks, is through the trials on the quiet; and exposing the background of NF witnesses.
This material is now being pro:
duced in the form of tact-sheets for circulation throughout the Glasgow On the basis of this material, the IMG intends to cut through the press silence on the trials and equip workers with the facts-necessary to build solidarity with the defendants and unity against the attack on the right to picket and demonstrate.
PROSECUTION In particular, campaigns are being launched against two of the prosecu tion witnesses. One of these, William Fay, a Labour Councillor, is fronting for right-wing District Council boss Dick Dynes, whose clique gave the fascists their hall and the police the go-ahead for their attack. The other is Glasgow NF chairman Richard Montague, a clerk in the District Cour cil's collecting department, whom NALGO members have the misfortune to number in their ranks Fact-sheets Nos. 1 and 2 are available from James MacAllister, 18 Carrington Street, Glasgow; and money for the Defence Fund should be rushed to: Trades Council Defence Fund, Glasgow Trades Council, 83 Carlton Place, Glasgow G5. With 63 of the 76 anti-fascists stil to be sentenced, fines already total E310: several thousand pounds will be required to cover fines, lawyers and appeal costs.
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In the first of the mass trials of anti-fascist pickets in Glasgow, Sheriff- Principal Lord Wilson made clear the purpose of the frame-up in his sum-