I MARCHED in with the marchers in the early evening of Saturday 3 May. There were two marches, both of them pertectly peaceful children. They converged outside the Wapping plant at about 9.30pm. I positioned myself right opposite the plant where I was able to see the massed ranks of mounted police. They were clearly riot police, with short-shields and long-shields.
families WIll At a certain point there was signal for the mounted police to move out. They came out of the plant into the crowd which was gathered there. From then on, there were continual forays by the mounted police, shortshield long-shiuld police.
When we tried to begin the public meeting, the riot police came out and completely surrounded the alca. thus in a way imprisoning some thousands of people who gathered around the platform.
The police rushed out with their truncheons and chased people along the SLICCL At about this stage, ir the early part of the even. ing, one of the marchers who had come all the way down from Glasgow had a The meeting itself was almost drowned out, although trom the vantage • of the platform it was possible to see the ponce tactics, as they poured around the SUCCES prisoning those who were platform neares SURe and indeed coming right up to willi a lew the platform so that at one stage police would mount the plattorm and clear those who were there speak.
was reported, that the police had broken the _There was a BBC2 interview well after midnight with myself Bob SOGAT ullespe Tron which I know is available IRN had a woman reporter who did at least three interviews with me In addition there were Press Association reporters Sunday Mirror Te Doriel So know that that intormanon was galncica ana Il Is against that that CICCK appearat we witnessed was an absolutely systematic Home Secretary, so that anybody who opposes this government and its policy will! face an attempt to blacken them, and then en. title the police to attack them.
hope whole movement rallies round Journalst and printer throughout the should seriously consider now taking imNappin vorkers. The TUC and th Labour Party at national level parliament should make this a central issue. If we do not stop this now there absolutely limit which the police will not go to crush dissent in Bri tain against the policies of the government that create unemployment deprive us of the services we used IN ONLY SLAG!
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