First Hillsborough. Then Orgreave. Now this needs one hundred thousand signatories by 27th June in order to secure a debate in Parliament. But they have mysteriously been going astray:
In 1972, building workers held their first ever
national strike for decent pay and health & safety at work. Five months
after the strike ended, 24 trade union members were charged with offences
allegedly arising from picketing in Shrewsbury in September 1972. They included
individuals who were convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to imprisonment.
Government files relating to the strike have been withheld from the National
Archives even though more than 30 years have passed.
We call upon the Government to release all
Cabinet minutes, documents, discussion papers, civil service notes, reports and
telephone records produced from 1972 to 1976 by Government departments,
agencies and prosecuting authorities relating to the strike, the building
workers' unions, the arrested pickets, the prosecutions at Mold and Shrewsbury
and the subsequent appeals, as well as any other material pertaining to the
case that fall outside the above time period.
No comments:
Post a Comment