Victory | IMGpapers 1968

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at Eldon Square A 'shambles, a charade and bloody diabolical'. No, not the words of the ten Eldon Square pickets -finally brought to trial in September after being arrested in January - but those of the police. In this particular match the pickets won an amazing ten-nil victory. After a retrial last week the final defendant, found not guilty of assaulting a policeman.

The Newcastle police have now announced that they are going to hold an enquiry into allegations of police brutality. But as members of the Tyneside Trade Unions 'Eldon Square Pickets' Defence Committee have pointed out, with the police proven wrong in so many cases already, surely what's needed is a workers' enquiry into the affair.

The task now is to extend the successful Tyne side campaign to the fight to free Des Warren and defend the Glasgow and Cammell Laird pickets who