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Blacklisted workers to meet Sir John Mitting tomorrow

BLACKLISTED construction workers will tomorrow meet the chair of the spycops inquiry.

Members of the Blacklist Support Group, Unite and the FBU will meet John Mitting following revelations that Special Branch supplied the blacklist with information on trade unionists.

Blacklisted bricklayer Frank Smith said there were “questions we need to know the answers to.

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