{"id":712,"date":"2012-01-24T23:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/?p=712"},"modified":"2012-01-24T23:06:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:06:21","slug":"the-shrewsbury-24-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/the-shrewsbury-24-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 40th anniversary since the national builders strike in 1972. Five months after the strike had ended 24 pickets who had visited building sites in Shrewsbury were arrested and\u00a0charged\u00a0with over 242 offences between them. They included unlawful assembly, affray, intimidation, criminal damage and assault.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the pickets were received custodial\u00a0sentences.\u00a0Des Warren, Eric (Ricky) Tomlinson and John McKinsie Jones were sentenced to three years, two years and nine months of imprisonment respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the trial the\u00a0convicted pickets had maintained that they were the vistims of a policically motivated trial. As Ricky Tomlinson put it from the dock:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have heard the judge say that this was not a political trial, and just an ordinary criminal case, and I refute that with every fibre of my being. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This year the Official Shrewsbury 24 Campaign, on\u00a0behalf\u00a0of the five convicted pickets who are still alive and Des Warren&#8217;s son, are submitting \u00a0the case the Criminal Cases Review\u00a0Committee\u00a0in the hope that it will be\u00a0referred\u00a0to the Court of Appeal. To find out more go to the new<a title=\"The Official Shrewsbury 24 Campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shrewsbury24campaign.org.uk\"> Shrewsbury 24 Campaign<\/a> website that contains the background to the strike and\u00a0subsequent\u00a0trials as well as a recently unearthed film on the Shrewsbury picket&#8217;s made in 1974 by Michael Rossen, the former\u00a0 Children&#8217;s Laureate and Radio 4 presenter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shrewsbury.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-714 aligncenter\" title=\"Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shrewsbury-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 40th anniversary since the national builders strike in 1972. Five months after the strike had ended 24 pickets who had visited building sites in Shrewsbury were arrested and\u00a0charged\u00a0with over 242 offences between them. They included unlawful assembly, affray, intimidation, criminal damage and assault. Six of the pickets were received custodial\u00a0sentences.\u00a0Des Warren, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,275,285,355,362],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-builders-strike-1972","tag-criminal-cases-review-committee","tag-des-warren","tag-rickey-tomlinson","tag-shrewsbury-pickets"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/the-shrewsbury-24-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year marks the 40th anniversary since the national builders strike in 1972. 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