Shrewsbury Pickets (No. 2)

EDM number 1267 in 2008-09, proposed by Gerald Howarth on 01/04/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Construction industry and Industrial relations.

That this House notes that the so-called Shrewsbury Pickets were jailed not for exercising the right to protest but for acts of violence; notes that the trial judge, Mr Justice Mais, said of one of the convicted, `you took part in violence and encouraged violence' and of all six before him the judge concluded that `some. . .were. . .determined to strike terror in the hearts of those continuing to go to work'; notes with concern that Old Labour attitudes towards violence on the picket line have not changed; and commends the letter in The Times of 14 January 1975 from the hon. Member for Aldershot which sets out the position prevailing at the time.

This motion has been signed by a total of 3 MPs.