[not thousands, for the picket lines. The scabs…]
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not thousands, for the picket lines.
The scabs have become more aggressive than ever towards the women on the picket line. Apart from the usual verbal abuse, the scabs now spit at the pickets as they enter and leave the building and have also physically attacked them.
Offensive The police too have cracked down on the pickets. Once, for example, when only four pickets were on duty, the police threatened them all with arrest for obstruction unless they stood against the building's wall. And when two of the pickets left for a tea break, the two remaining were again threatened with arrest for obstruction if they dared move away from the wall.
The general harassment of the pickets by the police, who are now starting to be on duty throughout the day rather than just at clocking on and off times, even goes so far as threatening pickets with arrest if