(e0) THE SUCCESS of the United Troops Out Movement conference last weekend was overshadowed the following mornEdwards, speaker from the Trade Union Campaign Against Repression, detained Wa.s Prevention of Terrorism Act in Stranraer on his return journey to Belfast.
The irony speech mainly concerned itself Tacea by trade unionists who stala invited the was that Jo's the level of repression PTA since 1974 against used to between rish OTCS SLaLCHICH!
earlier this -ONLUC underlined how had been trade «UTOR note DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH IRISH POWS NOVEMBER 26 Called for by the Prisoners Aid Committee *Solidarity with Irish POWs *POW status and amnesty for all Irish political prisoners *Troops out of reland now NATIONAL MARCH IN LONDON To Clerkenwell Green from Speakers Corner Assemble 2.30 people have been held under the focus for The Act has been constantly discourage contact udac umonsts and their British comrades. A Irom the UTOM on Monday pointed out pledged that this harassment was aimed at "preventing a free flow of information betweeen Irish and British people as to the true the situation obtaining in Occupied stration in The UTOM conference itself ver 150 prope atte ded ass undoubted success.
was taken of the ground broken in the UTOM's and to give 15 months of existence, so that it is now the major national work presence of the British troops ir At the conference delegates the Socialist Workers Party and other left groups their support for building the movement conference denicee among other things to build for November Genen support the prisoners-of-war held in Britain and Ireland, to support the Tribunal on Britain's Presence in reland.
La new national structure to UTOM. prisoners organise educational sessions learning, for example, about the nature of British involvement in Ireland and the dangers of a neocolonial settlement.
It is hard to imagine how these sessions are arranged, since the prisoners are locked in their cells all day save for an nour s exercise ana meats *Time's up!" shouted screw Our halt-hour was over We shook hands, then Gerry was hurried oft a small figure beside the huge screws We went back past the screw on the pedestal. Our visit was one of the last, and the blanket men had already been brought over from H Block about halfa-mile away.
A blanker mar wal ahead of us He was being hustled out of the door his visi stopped after a couple of minutes because thev were no talking about the appeal.
No warning was given. his relative told us. The visit was stopped, just like that He was an almost unearthly sight. Tall and very thin, very white. His long hair hung greasily onto his ill-fitting gre denim uniform, put out for the visit. There were septic yellow sores on his hands.
He was very unsteady on his feet and he put his hands on the walls to steady himself. Every so ofter he stopped to smile and wave as visitors in other boxes cheered him.
We were trembling as we left