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side Halifax General Hospital by health workers from al over Yorkshire.

Last November six of the pickets from Halifax were acquitted in the local Magistrates Court.

The magistrates judgement was that the obstruction of the highway had been for a short time and was not unreasonable.

The police were unhappy with the verdict and the legal precedent it might set and appealed against it.

Last Friday at the Old Bailey the Court of Appeal overturned the local magistrate's decision and convicted the pickets of obstruction.

The pickets will again appear before Halifax magistrates in a few weeks time for sentencing.

A campaign will be mounted by the local labour movement.

But it concerns the whole labour movement. It is through cases like this that the legal nuts and bolts of the new Tory trade union legislation are being tested and tightened. Make sure your organisation knows about the case and the campaign we are mounting.

THE NUR AGM decided to affiliate to CND and to include industrial action in its list of options for action against the Serpell report. If decided to oppose incomes policy and to oppose the Tories' Police and Criminal Evidence Bill.

The recent revival of a 'Triple Alliance" of Rail, Coal and Steel AT A mass meeting last Saturday there were only seven votes out of 300 for accepting the demands of Greenings' bludgeoning management. There was an almost unanimous vote to continue the strike until victory. The strike is now in its 17th week.

The previous Thursday there had been a meeting of national officers of the union and representatives of the Engineering Employers' Association of which the company claimed they had had lots of letters from workers wanting to return to work.

This was tested out at a mass meeting, which was addressed by Confed Secr John Tocher.

As Arthur Conheeny said: •The result was a bigger majority to continue the strike than there had been to start it.

The issue in dispute is still management's demand for redundancies but the workers believe the real issue is that the bosses want to smash trade union organisation in the plant. they are not going to let them.

After 17 weeks out the strikers desperately need financial support. Rush donations to Len Blood, 26 St. John St., Newtonle-Willows, Merseyside. Board and the government. It means that productivity talks will stop.

The media made a lot of the AGM's decision to use industrial action against it but if it is left with some NUR leaders , they have little to worry about.

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