Court Grants Injunction Against Fickets

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from an industrial correspondent Trade unionists will be very disturbed to learn of the High Court decision to grant an injunction against 18 building workers to prevent them from, as the court put it, illegally picketing the £44 million Government building site in Horseferry Road, London, The terms of the injunction, granted ex parte to the firm concerned, Bernard Sunley and Sons, are: "To restrain the defendants from watching and besetting the works and from irtimidating persons employed by Sunley's or their sub-contractors for the purpose of persualing, or inducing them to cease or abstain from working for Sunley's or their sub-contractors." The order also bans the workers from similarly watching the approaches to the works, from intimidating people delivering goods to the site, from assoulting ‘people employed by Sunley's or the sub-contractors, and trespassing on the works, The injunction is effective until February 3rd, The writ in the main action claims damages against the 18 men for alleged unlawful conspiracy to injure Sunley's, This action amounts, in the opinion of many, to a blacklegs' charter and an encouragement to so-minded employers to launch attacks on union organisation, It is vital that trade unionists insist that the union movement at all levels nips this development in the . bud, Otherwise we might find this action being used a precedent for legal purposes in all manner of industrial disputes, official and unofficial,