Exploiters walk free, workers go to jail

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were forced into the whole ed with me, especially situation: merely because those who have lost their they were trying to survive. liberty. At night its time 'Since the 2nd I've been again to realise my own so wrapped up in the cam- responsibilities - family paign that I've forgotten responsibilities which 1 But at night, my own way Cronin (the Bed & problems come back. In Breakfast landlord of 131, the daytime I'm aware of 135, 137 & 141 Iffley Rd., the reality affecting other who denies being the people - like those arrest- alleged 'Mr. Big') has been Sloan of the 114 people held but not charged by the Thames Valley police in their mass arrest of 286 claimants in Oxford on Thursday September 2 - Operation Major'.

The Claimants Defence Committee was launched on the initiative of Oxford Unemployed Workers and Claimants Union - to reply to the lies and distortion of the gutter press's "The Sting', and to defend the rights of ALL claimants.

Since the formation of the CDC Tony has become committed to the work and campaigne it has begun. Alan Stephens of Oxford SO and the CDC asked Tony why he has become so committed to the campaign.

I felt strongly about being arrested and the way I and everybody else were treated like animals and herded around by people who, just because they wear a police uniform, felt they could treat us this way.

I think that many of those arrested shouldn't have been. There were alcoholics, the mentally I, the inadequate, who were ignorant of what they were doing - they WHERE MR BICT my own worries for a while feel. - it makes me feel l exist.

EN Th 'It's also because of the getting rich off people who think he's doing a tavour for them, when acturally he's exploiting them - I hope the dirty bastard goes down as well.

'I used to be working and married - but we split up.

'I did try and get a B & B place, but because I was so screwed up I ended up sleeping rough for 5/6 weeks and I couldn't cope with working so I lost my job.

'Then a clerk, a woman at the DHSS told me that if i went to 137, Iffley Rd. and got a letter from the landlord they would give me a voucher for a night's B & B and the DHSS could give me an interview the next morning, which I did and they did - and from now on I'm classed as a 'scrounger'! (That's what the papers call us all.)

I've never really been involved in politics - I've got my own views which I've expressed and people could take them or leave them - but I know I've never liked the capitalist system since I've been aware of it (which isn't recently).

'There's no real difference between capitalists and Cronin - he's just the small fry... and wasn't born with silver his mouth.

'My family and I have had to struggle for what we've got - which was never much. We've seen other people who have got more which they ought to share - nobody should have more than anybody else. Everything should be shared as we all have to live in this world together.

'I hope that through the Campaign we can expose how the police abused the authority they've got -that in conjunction with the DHSS they've been able to walk all over us, the working class who ate not working.

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'And to show that capitalists like Croni • can exploit people and walk the streets free, while those he has exploited, the (non-) working class are being sent to jail.

'I also hope that we can expose when it comes to the court system that the magistrates are only out to line their own pockets.

'If we only achieve that much then at least we've achieved something positive and maybe we will protect people like me on the dole who don't really want to be'