was the bloodiest clash in the year and a quarter long Grunwick dispute.
Georee Ward's company cop used six vans of the hated Specia Patrol Group to escart the scabs' relatively unimportant to them.
Their real aim was to physic picket, as a warning to miners fire fighters, power workers an apposition to Labour's policie of 'industrial peace will not br "THUGGERY' Jack Dromey of the Grunwick strike committee talked later of cenes of police thuggery Mar I CANNES ME COHNIACHLENETI would never have believed that the police would take such action against peacetul pickets, It was sickening Eye-witnesses told of inciden after incident of police thuggery First reports indicated that ten kets hospital roken limbs.
In one articular horrifyi splay of sadism picket was dragged inside an SPG van anc had his head smashe through the window of th -assistant general sectecary he Amalgamated Union Enginecring Workers, and pro spective parliamentary candidate for Hackney North, was one of dent.
BRUTALITY The police violence started on Dudden Hit Lane, Entrance to the near Cooper Raud factory. A student demonstration was peacefully standing on them, punching kicking people to the ground.
to allou the scab bus to pass. it took an hout longer to get It was then that the worse cenes of brutality occurred the Chapter Road entrance to the factacy, where the pickets were blocking part of the street. By Registered with the Pasr Office as a ewspaer now police motives were clear as they bad no reason to launch the attack. (The bes was already on its way in by the other gate.)
Nevertbeless, attack they did. Droitey described what he 'Pickets were pulled our of the crowd al rundoml. They thrown left, right and They were punched, thrown to the ground and trampled over.
Police pressure was so intense that they pushed pickets against a wall which then collapsed. Dromey again! 328/329 Lipper Sreet. Printed by Preslagure IT, Reading, Berkshire. Monday's picket. The aim was to smash up demonstrators.
"They round, pulled them by the ha Irageed them over the fallen wa od threw them onto the grour were lopether they arrested apt ximately 120 pickets an up countless more. ed the cameras of at least two press abotographers.
The scracks by the state forces UNDWICKICK should remind us all of just hom SOCIALIST first lax rebate arrived this week An Edinburch teacher pleased with the recent successes of thie Olice.
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