Paddy Kelly Interview Conti
Socialist Republic1978Internment, repression and the courtsInternment, repression and the courts
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repression but there's nothing to bind them together within the docks itself, Outside of the docks they may be involved in - say - Peoples Demoparties but inside the docks | cracy, Sinn Fein or other there {s nothing to hold them together, 7S > Gp te Gt OP OP ns a a a a a Q. There was animosity shown by Paddy Devlin towards TUCAR when it became involved intryingto help |;
build support for your case, Were you aware of this? | SSS SSS Oee2ew wae es Se A, At the time I wasn't aware of it but when I came | home several people said that TUCAR had approached the Docks Action Committee - our ' “own union - to give support to the campaign for me to be released, I was told that Paddy Devlin had told TUCAR’
to take themselves off, because:
they were only down looking for cheap publicity, Personally I don't think that it was a matter of cheap publicity fcr them, TUCAR have been out |! . on the streets over Brian | Maguire and other cases, They are an active campaign against repression, I think it | is a good thing and all trade | unionists should be involved in it, 2 GD GP Ob OP Ge OD GR GF OD OP GD GF a8 Os oe on on .
Q. - What do you think are the lessons, from your arrest and the activities which . took: place around it, that can ‘be learned by workers in other places?
Oe Ee OD OP ED Om On OE On aD aD om an an on om a 8 A, I think the one lesson | ‘is that ex-internees should stay away from England !!
But on the other hand, I think that the protest action taken by my colleagues at the -docks shows that it fs possible to put pressure on the , British Govt,, the police and ‘army, to have people relea_ sed, If all trade unions were ‘to get involved in this sort of activity, you could bring the ' place to a standstill any time you needed to. If they are pushing the repression, torture, harrassment, it's only a matter of bringing the country to a standstill until you ' , get them to stop. I think they | would. B