SEVEN people wère arrested at a picket against the racist quota system at a Birmingham night club on Saturday night.
Eighty people had picketed Pollyanna's night club following a report by the Commission Racial Equality which found the club operating a quota system on the admission of blacks to the club, and of turning away people in turbans and woolly hats. manager of the club, Geoffrey Weston-Edwards, has openly defied the CRE ruling, and announced his intention maintaining quotas.
An action committee has been formed to fight racism in all Birmingham's night clubs. K22110 leading member of the committee and a shop steward at Rover Solihull, said after the picket:
"The police action arresting peaceful picketers on Saturday night. was totally unjustified. They special point intimidating and arresting women on the picket.
*We are going to come back picket club Saturday night until these racist practices are dropped. particular we shall be fighting for the trade union movement T&GWU members to refuse all deliveries and to prevent thecollection of rubbish.
*There is no way in which the police are goung to stop smashing the colour bar at this club.
TWO hundred pounds for the Garners strike fund was raised on Sunday at a film benefit at the Gate cinema, Notting Hill. More than 150 people came to see Dark Star and Dread, Beat and Blood.
The strike committee holding two further benefits in the next week which it hopes will be equally successful.
The first is on Sunday 8 April at 1pm at the Paris Pullman Gardens, SW10), showing Wim Wender's film The American Friend.
Then on Wednesday 11 April there is a late-night showing of Dread, Beat and Blood and Blacks Brittanica at 11.15pm at the Screen on the Green, Uppe Street, Islington.
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