which was sometime around April/May 1973, we have been harassed by gangs of white youths living in and around estate. On this estate there are only four coloured families and all of them suffer from the same kind of treatment.
*For about two and a half years we have our windows. The kitchen is still boarded up as ine giass was broken a lew months ago. The director of housing refuses to do anything about it (it's a council house).
*The front bedroom downstairs has a cracked window and is still boarded This is my daughter's room and she suffers from asthma. The downstairs front door has also got a crack in it. and the windows in the drawing room have also been broken. All the windows have been broken.
'On 12 October more stones were thrown windows were broken again. looked out and saw three white boys passing. We asked them where they going and where they had come from. They said that they were coming from the club. What can you do when they are always lying?
manacer was amae or anomer occ it to the police, but they do nothing. council have a verv bad attitude towards us and are not helpful at all. There dampness in the rooms and the wallpaper doesn't stay on.
*There are cracks in most of the walls and the wind comes through them. tiles have come off because the white boys throw all sorts of rubbish on the roof. The concil doesn't even repair our windows. We pay £8 a week rent.
•On 16 November a boy whom we knew came io ine iront garc. narWas doolI midnight. He was with anther white boy and I went out and asked him what he was doing. He started geting very angry and called me a "black bastard"
*A few months ago A.P., who lives in the house behind my back garden, threw stone at the back top bedroom window and broke it. These white youths never leave us alone. They have also thrown a burning tyre in our garden and burned the hedge. have written "Black Bastards Get Out" in large letters.
'We have made complaints to the police but they don't care. My sons and daughters come home beaten up. I'm fed up and want to leave this country. Why do people treat us like this? I don't trust anybody - the council, the police, no-one." We pamphlet were OUT NOW! Price 20p 32 pages packed with facts and arguments against the racist threat. Order now trom Red Books, 182 Pentonville Road, Londen N1. Enquiries for bulk orders to Reloc Ltd, 97, Caledonian Road, London, N1.
ne rool A.Y. of West Drayton: •We moved into our house in March this усаг. Alter two or inree days hung clothes on the washing line. In the evening wnen she went out to collect the clothes she found some were torn and some were rolled in the dirt.
We also found a letter demanding we pav £5 a week if we had any intention of staying in the house. All this was reported to the police in West Drayton. One police officer came round, registered our complaint and went away. *Ten days later gangs of white youths broke six window panes in the top bedThey room. We called the police. another police man came and registered our complaint, DUL DO acron was laken. windows broken again two days consecuavery aner unc Donecinan canic *Two weeks later anther incident occurred. My mother and sister were sitting outside when a gang of appeared and threw a bottle. Luckily it missed my mother and sister. •We complained to the police but they wenT Daya aLonce.
£82.32.
else have her gas cut off.
On 16 September 17 September Mr Pelister the houses to disconnect the pipe.
Ms O.
HEV mOUlCE Mass action and the building of black self-defence is the way to counter racist attacks received quarterly bills of about £25. After the reading in July 1976 the company wrote to say inar iney nad underesumarca D. £112.32 and that amount was now due.
Pro une hounslow showroom in July to say that she could not She entered into ar agreement to pay in instalments. She paid E30 immediately, leaving her a bill of On 14 September she received a visit from a debt collector, Mr Pelister, who said she must pay the full amount immediately or she went to the gas showroom and paid the bill by cheque. On re-appeared, asking for permission to read the meter While she was in the kitchen, Pelister used the opportunity to find out how the gas pipe driving a taxi. ran into the house and gave instructions to three workmen to begin drilling in front of was horrified to see this and showed the workmen the recepted bill. They then stopped drilling and remonstrated with the debt collector, saying that they would not disconnect the gas since the bill had been paid. Mr Pelister then said the bill should have been paid in cash not cheque, so she still owed the E82.32 plus f22 for disconnection and connection (work whien was not even carricd our)
Whist Ms O. was telephoning the Uxbridge gas showroom, Mr Pelister called the police. The police arrived very quickly and Ms O. was now faced with seven men. She tried to show all the necessary documents to the police, but was told that they had no time to listen to her story and that she must do as Mr Pelister demanded.
Ms O. telephoned the bank manager te arrange for her to collect £28.32 plus £22 in casn. remser took mne money and ier Ms G. Ab. of Hillingdon:
One Sunday this September, Ms G. Ab. was taking some cakes to her father's house. On her way she passed a group walte VOUns. CONG SOL WIOM ETCEL terrorised black families in the neighbc hood. This vouth approached the wor demanded a cake and kicked Ms Ab. on ankle.
She didn't say anything but hurried or her father's house. When she retur home she related the oCleen Ie husband, who went outside, saw the w youtn, and askeo nim wnal ne was uy The youth started houting and abusing hit Mr Ab. on the chest. Mr Ab. mentic calling the police, the white youth pus him down and kicked him.
The police came but said everything Ab. said was "hearsay evidence'. avised the tammy to take a summon against the boy privately. When the po ena mne Dov and ms mouner returnca house and threatened: 'If you issu summons we will bring S0 people and you with knives.