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Glasgow mass Dicket A MASS picket is being held on 20 December at the Carousel factory in Glasgow's East End.

The shop floor workers there have been on strike since the I middle of July for union recogsition, reinstatement and better working conditions.

are not going to organising to get i am a! tripartite bodies like E == strengthening Tory The strike has been all but openly ditched by the TGWU, the union which the strikers joined before their dismissal. Though the strike is still official and the strikers receiving union strike pay, local officials are doing little apart from loaning them the rather dilapidated TGWU Scottish Regional banner.

As well as helping on the picket line, TGWU members must step up pressure on their own officials to stop them ratting on this dispute. outside the building, for what they called a peaceful protest. But when they saw a union member, Joe Wade, leave the building by a back door. several dozen hurled themselves at his vehicle and tried *: sere writs on him. As he tried :: are smas. one of the lawyers has ah: oy the van.

Afterwards angry solicitors and barristers complained that their traditional right to serve writs had been hampered by Wade's action.

They have vowed to return in greater numbers this. week to stop him leaving.

Police said that peaceful writserving only was to be allowed and no more than six lawyers at any one time would be permitted to carry away the NGA's assets.

Lawyers, who operate the most powerful closed shop in the country, are expected to return next week in far greater numbers.

Yesterday, as the NGA Executive tried to leave the TUC, lawyers hurled writs, issued injunctions and one man in front a barrister.

Some of the lawyers had clearly come prepared for trouble, wearing wigs and carrying briefcases. Police set up road blocks near Lincoln's Inn Field and several chambers of lawyers were turned back and prevented from reaching the area around TUC headquarters. But dozens broke through the cordons and hurled Latin abuse at the NGA members as they tried to go about their lawful business.

The lawyers are thought to belong to an ultra-militant and shadowy body, the Law Society, and are organised in chambers and Inns of Court.

Today the row spread to Parliament where several lawyers have infiltrated both the Tory and Labour benches.

One MP who protested Spilling excessive and blatant use of law was hurled from the Chamber by the Sergeant-at-Arms, strongly suspected of being a fellow-travelleI.

The Lord Chief Justice this week said he would not rest until his ruthless supporters had extracted every last penny from the NGA and other unions.

Last minute negotiations broke down last night, dashing hopes that the dangerous constitutional crisis would be avoided.

The TUC's Organisation and Employment Committee met through the night at ACAS but they were unable to agree on a form of words which would satisfy the boss at the centre of the dispute, Mr Eddie Murray.

Mr Murray afterwards issued a statement saying he would never recognise the right of any union to take industrial action in any After the final breakdown of talks, nothing stands between the NGA and the hordes of gangsters in pin-stripes who have come to seize their money and who have brought such terror into the hearts of ordinary, peaceable passers-by.

The Metropolitan Commissioner of Police was ashen-faced last night. "I can't see how we can stop them. We've faced dockers, miners and the women at Greenham Common. But nothing can match the blood-curdling terror inspired by these lawyers. This is the end."

Early today a lone figure was seen staggering from a building in Bedford. He was bleeding from every orifice and barely recognisable as the trade union leader of a month ago.

He peered around him like a man expecting a fresh attack at any time and then fell to the road. His lips made a last effort to speak. "Calling trade union Shere is anybello. es anybody

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