Two-week recognition fight Picket arrested for second time
By David Maude
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TWO YOUNG garage workers were remanded on bail at a south London magistrates' court yesterday after being arrested while on strike picket three hours earlier.
Kingston magistrates refused a police application to deny bail of the two, Philip Penn, who is already due to appear in court on on a previous obstruction charge.
The magistrates also refused a second police application, to ban the two from the area of the strikebound garage until after the hearing.
But although the second picket, Charles Penn, faces no previous charge, both brothers were warned that if they come before the court again before May 3 it is unlikely they will be granted bail.
Twenty-six workers at Lankesters, the main BritishLeyland dealer in Kingston, have been on strike for two weeks for recognition of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers in negotiations on a new pay structure.
Backing
The dispute has the official support of the union's district committee and backing is being sought from the national executive.
Last Friday Philip. Penn was arrested and charged with wilful obstruction of the highway in breach of section 121 of the 1959 Highways Act.
He appeared in court on Wednesday, the day after Lord Widgery, the Lord Chief Justice, had ruled, on
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