BENT PAGES IMS WEEK! The Stuart Anarchist Weekly SEPTEMBER 30 1H7 Vol 28 No 30 Christie Case WITHIN HOURS of the news of Stuart Christie’s arrest becom­ ing known in this country, comrades in London and Glasgow were in telephonic communication. Although WHERE DID ALL many active militants were at that time (August 1964) at the Liber­ tarian Summer Camp in the South of France, there were enough com­ rades available to set up at once an effective communication system. By Tuesday an office with telephone THE VOTERS THE GO ? was hired in the Peace N ew s base­ ment which was fully manned day and night by a voluntary staff. A Wa l t h a m s t o w w e s t e l e c t e d The real left-wingers in the Party sur­ I a Tory MP. Not that it matters all reptitiously take Tribune—I don't think preliminary meeting was called at g : much, lolling the difference between I am ‘fingering’ anyone by reporting the Lucas Arms where the Syndi­ [policies of any of the political parties such information. One can see how calist Workers’ London branch met prynigh impossible. much the Labour Party merits support in on Fridays. This was attended by m ere did Labour’s supporters go?— Walthamstow. many comrades anxious about | did the moat sensible thing anyone Jeremy Thorpe said he thought that the Stuart’s arrest, and a large amount ■do on polling day, they watched abstentions in West Walthamstow were of money was raised by all those ■pinn Lvvc Story was quite good, due to people being fed up with politics. present for campaign expenses. By ■pdersiand. 1 wish I could believe this to be true. this time we knew that Glasgow Tones are jubilant, why 1 can’t Wilson, just prior to the General Election, Anarchists, together with the young | p In terms of votes, they gained will produce a few vote-catching plums, socialists, had organised a march to and West Walthamstow will be safely |y a thousand. The Liberals, as the Spanish Consulate. Here in back in the Labour fold. Consulate and burnt the Spanish MacDermot flew over at once, by I claim a victory, they have more London there was a continuous vigil lout defeats than the Communist flag with a swastika on it. There the time he got there the proceed­ I honestly believe that people doubt the outside the Spanish Embassy. Two sincerity of Parliamentary politics, but were also demonstrations in many ings were over. comrades were allotted the task of kwo Independents had a ‘go’. The when the crunch comes they go to the parts of Europe, especially France Stuart Christie was sentenced to 20 I followed the usual pattern for polls like lambs to the slaughter. Why? writing a leaflet which was approved years' imprisonment and Fernando Car- and printed within 24 hours. and Italy. Indents—they were flattened. It Because they see no alternative, so they The committee rooms were inun­ ballo to 30 years. n o o d these hoys fighting in the attempt to choose the lesser of the evils The meeting at the Lucas Arms Press accounts of the trial further con­ h i , they cannot give the weight presented.. was tense, and many theories were dated with offers of help and, vinced us that Stuart must have been 1 I know, 1 have had my bottom The Walthamstow Labour Party have offered as to what might have naturally, besieged by the press who, innocent. Reports published in the enough times. experienced a shock, such a result was happened. The most puzzling together with television, were giving Evening News and the Standard men­ flaw is the birthplace of never dreamed of, particularly by Fred aspect was that Stuart, before leav­ Stuart’s arrest a lot of attention. tioned that Stuart got his explosives at Morris, the Socialist pioneer, Silvester, the Tory candidate. ing, told all his friends that he was Stuart’s message from prison to the Summer Camp. By this time we had [d a y s Morris is remembered for his I can definitely report that there will going to the Summer Camp. This, his mother affirming his innocence confirmation that he did not go there. The sentences were unanimously , not his politics. Walthamstow be a post-mortem, someone has got to coupled with the fact that Stuart made us redouble our efforts to help Parties, East and West, shudder take the can back in the local Party. him. attacked as being savage and Trafalgar spoke no Spanish, convinced us that Square was booked for a large demon­ thoughts of Morris's political Probably some poor bloody Ward Secre­ he must have been ‘framed’ or kid­ A solicitor, Mr. Benedict Birn- tary who may have forgotten to organise berg, was appointed and was asked stration the following Sunday. napped. By this time fantastic rumours circu­ Sumner Road in Walthamstow the cars or postal vote. to find a barrister willing to fly out the William Morris Hall, it is Instantaneous support came from lated in London about the activities of Fred was congratulated by Deakins, everywhere. Placards and banners to the trial. Mr. Niall MacDermot, the Spanish special branch in this coun­ i by the Labour Party for its socials they both agreed that it was a good QC, MP, agreed to do so, for ex­ political meetings. At the back of were hurriedly made, a loudspeaker try and we were more than convinced clean fight, they both acted like gentle­ penses only, waiving his fee. that Stuart, who was a well-known mili­ [hall above the door on a shelf stands men. Fred's supporters then sang ‘Land van was fitted up with a hooded ■ ft* of William Morris. During many man on a garrotte with the slogan: The Spanish Authorities, afraid tant who, furthermore, signed a petition of Hope and Glory*, whilst Deakins* sup­ of the mounting pressure of press against Franco, must have been closely j p b o v r Party Conference, I have seen porters attempted a feeble rendering of ‘This must not happen to Christie! * Hfiis bust nearly topple over in disgust. and public opinion, hurriedly an­ followed by the special branch and the ‘Red Flag’. A jolly good game By Sunday a large demonstration kidnapped. Hpfore he became Prime Minister, Mr. chaps, Fred will now join the comedians was mounted by the ad hoc Christie- nounced the date of a trial by a ■ s ta k d l addressed a meeting in the in the House of Commons, proudly Carballo Committee. Many hun­ military tribunal. Although Mr. Coatinaed on page 2 liltam Morris Hall supporting German sporting John Harvey's (ex-Tory MP, E. dreds marched from Marble Arch ihsrmiiTwn!. and he won the day—I Walthamstow) House of Commons -personally caught the bust as it fell off. to the Spanish Embassy in Eaton Motor Club badge. What a wonderful Square, where a deputation from the game this parliamentary lark is, no [ Walthamstow Labour Party has always CNT, the SWF and the LFA handed [been respectable, never been tainted to wonder there are queues of prospective any senous extent with Trotskyists. Solid candidates lining up for seats, it's better in a letter of protest. UU$ A BUCMUBB to the core, they produced a couple of than working for a living. In Glasgow an equally large [ Rocialiat Lords, McILruec and Attlee, Bill Christophb *. crowd gathered outside the Spanish T *® BRITISH PRESS lived up to its insults like, T say, sir, this is hooli- • gloriousolnnA iic reputation‘ by . lying 1 • throughout At 1 * ganism/rm*\ n i d m * Afi/I and ‘Do you IMMi think OkifiV the Express about the reception given to Stuart Chris­ have a monopoly of the press?' to a tie at London Airport. The Express Group collection of anarchists ranging front I WAS HITCH-HIKING U» Glasgow .had tried to blackmail Christie into sign­ veterans of the Spanish War to those P to speak at a meeting (hare whan I ing for them exclusively, and said if he who cut their political teeth on ‘Wilson firs* read (he nows at Stuart Christie's THE NOBLE IHTENTION did not take their terms they would put out, anarchy in*. The press alleged that I arrest Some of (hr Glasgow comrades out a dirty story (they had a plane for ‘anarchists went wild'; in fact, it was * h*d got the news in to early editions of Britain. They were then quoted as has remained in power these 23 years Glasgow and would say ‘Grannie waits the ladies and gentlemen of the press the Sunday papers on Saturday night saying that ‘for some time we have been through terror, through exile for more in vain*); he did not, and they carried who went wild and ‘swept aside* passen­ **4 had immediately organised a demon­ observing the activities of Spanish than 500,000 Spaniards, not only as out their threat (suggesting he had black­ gers and those waiting for them. One stration at the Spanish Consulate. The terrorist elements in foreign countries anarchists but of all political shades, or mailed his protesting mother). lady, just back from a Continental holi­ routing 1 was to address was enlarged by We discovered that they were planning a of none, who detest the regime and However the rest of the press had day and clutching her souvenirs, who |«eroberi of the YS, the Scottish Coat' campaign of violence in Madrid and would be its victims were they to set besieged Receptions. A few friends of had tried to get a look in at the tele­ j mittee of JOQ and YCND-ere Arrange other Spanish cities. Following these foot in their country. Franco's boast Christie's, and London Anarchists (de­ vision camera, was whisked away down : menu were made for a further demonstra- investigations it was found that a highly ‘*25 years of Peace" has been paid for scribed in the press as a mythical Teague tho escalator, shouting, ‘Where's Ethel?' > lion. the printing of leaflets and the suspicious foreigner had entered the by 25 years of press censorship, of 25 of Anarchists' and being fifty strong, while the courteous representatives of * -n2? * defence nod aid fund, nariofiaJ territory and hitch-hiked to years without free speech or free associa­ and 'bearded youngsters'—it so happened The Times, Telegraph and Mirror shook confusing stausoeou by the Madrid* He was watched constantly and tion for workers, intellectuals and there were 24 including two beards, one their fists at her shouting 'Beaverbrook ■pniush authorities first said that they was arrested by police in Madrid.' political parties. of whom was the hired driver) turned thug*. ■ g o been tipped off by their agent* in Many comrades felt that the news of That some courageous individuals up to welcome him. following hia tele­ The BBC announced that Stuart had an anarchist being arrested with explo­ during these 25 years have risked or phone request to be saved from the ‘shrugged aside' anarchists just as he sives is his possession would do a lost their lives in desperate acts; that press. The press surged forward, punch- and his mother were celebrating their great deal at harm to the movement throughout the world millions of men end kicking This was reported as escape from the press in a West London here. Here again there was confusion and women hale the Franco regime even being the anarchists punching and flat Mrs. Christie's complaint to the and uunflioMog ttatemaol*, for although after 25 years; that young people, who kicking; it did so happen the press press—‘we came back to find peace*— the Spanish authorities alleged that, were not boro when the struggle in got the wont of it. partly because they was nicely misrepresented in the Express under dote interrogation, Stuart con­ Spain was gripping world attention as no had a preconceived notion of anarchists as a reproach to Stuart who had arranged [ANARCHY 80 fessed to carrying these and that they other event since, should feel strongly the (a group of innocent French hippies to get away from the mob of pressmen. were to be used for anti-Franco activities, cause of a free Spain—these are the were beaten up by some reporters who Everyone finished the evening happy IEXT WEEK DISCUSSES when the British Vice-Consul was finally fact* that mailer and the justification for thought they were the anarchists—they and contented, except the disgruntled allowed to sec him, he said that he was every action against the regime were merely asking. 'Ecs eel Monsieur journalists who fought it out in Fleet innocent *!f Stuart Christie is, as we suggest, Wilson?*)—while the real anarchists Street and then united to write a dirty fORKERS’ Whether he was or was not carrying innocent of the charges made against him, were accused of being Express hirelings. story on the anarchist movement. Bit­ explosives did out seem to be the issue there is no question but that a campaign This led to an exchange of blows with terest was the Express with its wasted The feet was that a comrade had been on as wide a scale as possible on his the Telegraph, which retreated with a plane, oddest was the Guardian who iONTROL arrested and was facing the possibility behalf must be organised But if he is bleeding nose (and named the anarchists cribbed the Express story, most predict­ of a very long prison sentence guilly7 Then, in our opinion, the efforts in inverted commas next day, still no able was the Telegraph, strangest was D i a r c h y is Published by This has not changed and what we of all men of goodwill must be redoubled, doubt believing they were Express men). the Mirror (where did they see ‘fifty said in August, 1964. st111 standi The bearded youngsters'?—they had more EEDOM PRESS at 2s, irrespective of whether they approve or As an eighteen-stone comrade blocked feet that we have no proof either of the disapprove of his methods For what the escalator, and the group with Mrs. than their share to drink, it is true). first Saturday of everymonth innocence or guilt of our comrade does will count, what will remain in people's Christie, Stuart, and Mr. Bimberg* not affect the issue Franco's regime minds, U the noble intention.‘ hurried off to their car, the press hurled A.M. of no importance to Franco They could afford to show some magnanimity, which may have improved their relationship ‘Glasgow’ Happening THE STUART CHRISTIE CASE with Britain. The petition from Stuart's books? mother came as a good opportunity for Q N SATURDAY EVENING seven) Cma tinned from page 1 The more the pity neither the violent them to show benevolence, without be­ - people sat down in Georgs fiquars, 1 ing attacked by the falangtsts for giving All our press statements and leaflets nor non-violent critics did damn all to the main square in Glasgow, and nsgaii were to this effect, giving details of the continue where the Committee left off. in to British pressure. an impromptu open-air folk-song cuncep I We can supply many Spanish political prisoners, and News from Stuart came periodically. Now he is back and he has put the Soon a crowd of about 100 had gaihorsd I the horrible execution of comrades Del­ A friend of his, Rosa Flett, managed to record straight. He was a bit surprised and were joining in. Everyone ««t on | gado and Granados. see him in prison. Another friend, Bar­ that people did not know as be told a green surface called ’keep off ifo any book in print grass’. Whilst comrades in this country, in all bara Renshaw, persuaded her local MP, MacDermot three years ago. innocence took this line, those returning Mr. Alfred Morris, to start taking up Three years after he is still an anar­ For a while the polios watched every­ NEW BOOKS from the Summer Camp were more the case with the Foreign Office who chist, but his opinions matured. He went one enjoying themselves a big chsngs realistic. were reluctant to help, Mr. Bimberg to prison as a boy and cams out a man for the ‘mac fuzz' from watch ini gent Communitas . N. MacDermot, QC, also returned persuaded George Gardiner this year to He did not wish to tell lies, therefore fights. Paul & Pcrcival Goodman write an article for the Sunday Times. he, with his friends' help, avoided the Eventually, unable to come to (emu (paperback) 12/- from Madrid, having seen Stuart, and informed the Christie-Carballo Com­ He wrote an effective article. By then, clutches of the Daily Express. He does with such ’unconventional* activity they What Is To be Dooe? Stuart passed his ‘A’ levels in English, not wish to live in debt (he owes hun­ raided the group, arrested five end on N. G. Chemyshevsky (paperback) 10/- mittee that although Stuart spoke to him in the presence of guards, he was never­ Spanish and history. Letters from him dreds of pounds to lawyers, etc,), hence Monday they wore fined £20 each for Plays, Prose Writings and Poem became more frequent and we were all he sold the true story to tho People. ’breach of the peace’ and ‘nudirioui Oscar Wilde 12/0 theless convinced that Stuart did know­ ingly carry explosives. surprised by the maturity of his thinking. There are many who will line up damage’. Hie Peckham Experiment By that time Stuart was in Spanish When Stuart decided to make a final wholeheartedly behind Stuart Christie. This was not a hippy demonstration!J limes H. Pearsc and appeal, the political situation was in his Others will attack him. Let both aides but one involving Glasgow's working* 1 Lucy H. Crocker 22/6 police hands for three weeks, ill-treated and frightened. For him to have ad­ favour. Spain had just scored a diplo­ before they adulate or criticise him, find class youth, As a result the polios were] A narchism matic victory when the United Nations out what are his thoughts NOWf not given any flowers. We are glad in] George Woodcock (Penguin) 7/6 mitted at that stage that he was not a found in Spain’s favour in the case of But for me— I am happy that he is say there is still no love for the poiicgl l*e Sane Society Erich Fromm 12/6 tool but a willing accomplice would have Gibraltar. As the UN decreed that the back with us at last! in this city, Reluctant Rebels Howard Jones 32/6 been dangerous and foolish and may referendum was illegal, the result was Character Analysis Wilhelm Reich 63/- have resulted in death by garrotting. To Jo h n R rty. A Glasgow (''okmehi*oni>ent, 1 Equality and Power R. V. Sampson 35/- have told MacDermot the truth the Talks to Parents and Teachers day after the trial, in the presence of Homer Lane 10/6 guards and an interpreter, was a typically courageous act by Stuart. rpHE KNOWLEDGE that the Ewan About Schools No. 2 ’*■ Phillips Gallery at 22a Maddox (Canadian magazine) 7/- But the campaign for his release in London definitely got off on the wrong Street, W.l, has given its walls over to TaIking of Summerhill an exhibition of Cuban Contemporary A. S. Neill 2 5 /- foot and collapsed. The meeting at AROUND THE GALLERIES Trafalgar Square was a fiasco. Although Art, raised many a justifiable eyebrow Homer Lane: a Biography and interest among those who arrived at W. David Wills 4 0 /- the office was maintained for a few more their social conscience via the brush and Growing up Absurd Paul Goodman 21 /- days and letters for help were still sent that, as in the past, we shall find a revo­ tolerate the poet, the painter o r. 1 the printed word for we are now two The Barns Experiment out, the campaigners lost heart. lutionary situation translated into visual writer who question* the frame generations who have lingered too long W. David Wills (remainder) 3/6 It did not take long for armchair terms. Yet here in this basement Gallery, fabric of the new society, and it ■ at the still waters of the time-dated revo­ To Hell with Culture critics, within and without the anarchist where the Cuban flag greets the Town this moment that the sterility of Kiel lutionary Mexican paintings, Russian and Herbert Read 21 /- movement, to attack the Christie-CaB and the tape recorder plays the revolu­ finds its place on tho official walls ■ Selected Philosophical Works ballo Committee for telling lies. German avant-garde works of the bloody tionary songs of the Cuban people as a within the official anthologies. *fl Alexander Herzen (Moscow) 10/- This was, strictly speaking, debatable. twenties, American New Deal socially- background to the glass-cased Art Jewel­ may be bitter words to apply tq| Love and Orgasm (on Reich) If you believe that what you say is true committed work and the polemic decla­ lery that is the permanent stock of this exhibition so worthy in its aims, Alexander Lowen 37/6 but in fact is not, are you telling the rations of the Spanish anti-Fascist War. Gallery, you will find an interesting will hold that it is false to its own Authority and Delinquency in the truth or a lie? These belong to an age when the exhibition of paintings and sculptures by pronouncements. Modern State Alex Comfort 10/6 But from that moment onwards, the poster rightly became the manifesto and men and women of Cuban nationality What this Gallery is showing, The Ego and His Own Committee never discussed what Stuart the guide for those who were unable to but of the revolutionary art that had the within my terms it is worthy of Max Stiraer (paperback) 15/- did but mainly referred to the savagery assimilate the pedantic economic theories Town's Red Guard commuting between attendance, is work by painteraj of the sentence and contrasted it with the Liberal Assembly at Blackpool and Postage Extra of the hour, while a single poem could long before Castro achieved pow6| Brendan Behan’s prison term for gun- crush into a few brief and mighty lines this Bond Street window onto the revo­ established themsolves as artists running for the IRA when Behan got the whole content of the volumes of lution there is only disappointment well- international scene. If their won two years. Marx. It was an age when, for a few painted and well-mounted. claim any allegiance, it must be Freedom Bookshop Other critics of the Committee government dollars, the artist painted the In 1965 Che Guevara, the Voice of the American art world that has fl attacked it from a different side. They American Dream on the walls of the Cuban Revolution, wrote a letter to the most of tho styles on exhibition (Open 2 pan.—5.30 p jn . daily; said innocence or guilt was irrelevant Federal Post Offices and the actor de­ Montevideo weekly M archa and that tinez offers tho fashionable pop $j 10 ton.—1 pjn. Thursdays; in the context. The Spanish State claimed the nationalistic virtues of a letter formed the basis for the book wherein Caatro takes the place 10 ajn.—5 p.m. Saturdays). violently imprisoned thousands, they country and a government that, as a Man and Socialism in Cuba. It was with­ late Miss Monroe. Rodriguez hi 17a MAXWELL ROAD must be opposed by violence. Was revolutionary experiment, had decided to in this book that Che Guevara attacked fluid death-haunted brushwork ] Mandela wrong? Were Freedom Fighters practice social aid in a society that had and condemned the class art of social contemporary Spanish painters, FULHAM SW6 Tel: REN 3736 wrong? ground to an economic halt in the prac­ realism and condemned the philistinism Diaz Oliva and Urquiola are repp tice of private greed. of Stalin and Kruschev for giving it their by sculpture of twisted strips of Ours is the age when the fratricidal official support. yard iron, or the casting into rnl bitterness of the Spanish conflict has What Che Guevara, and Miguel Barnet crudely pummelled clay into the] finally found its quiescence in the bound of the National de Cultura failed to achieved three-dimensional version CD up in Smoke volumes of the official histories, and understand, was that in the first revolu­ Francis Bacon painting. FREEDOM PRESS Franco releases one of our comrades, tionary phase the artist is always given All honour to these artists nndll NE NIGHT IN July, three friends for the slogans of that heroic moment full freedom of expression if he is will­ work but they represent no oni PUBLICATIONS O went out to the Civil Defence block are but the folk tales, the epics and the ing to act as a medium of propaganda themselves and the plush and ex pen; near Portlethen. With them they had a legends of an age that we fear to emu­ and no matter how heroic, trivial or galleries of expense account art, couple of bottles of petrol which they SELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM1 late. We love to parse the political pro­ avant-garde his work, it will win the men and tho women working within J poured down the ventilation shaft. They factories and tho fields in Cuba may Vol 3 1953: Colonialism on Trial nouncements of the Cuban Government support of the secular arm of the revo­ then soaked a rag in petrol, lit it, and and, of our elite knowledge, explain producing a new and revolutionary Vol 4 1954: Living on a Volcano lution providing the artist acts out his dropped it in. their mistakes, for we will not muddy but, despite the flag hanging gay in tl Vol 5 1955: The Immoral Moralists ordained role within the struggle. But We have heard that the block was our hands in the common stream for London air and the revolutionary sqm Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters when the streets return to normal, the badly gutted by the fire. It was not fear of soiling our writing paper but, dead are buried, the firing-squads go surging from the tape recorder to red Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era published in the press, so we decided to by the sheer pressure of social events, ment the Town's h«iw-mond«. as 1 Vol 8 J958: Socialism in a Wheelchair home, and the offices are ready for the send the news to you. We cannot disclose we are forced to align ourselves with new lodgers, then the cultural commit­ marches down the suicidal steps of th Vol 9 1959: Print, Press & Public any more news, but I’m sure what has any individual or group who takes to tees rise from the sewers of the new basement Gallery, wc still have to wa Vol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa been done is a just act against the the streets to demand a measure of society. It is then that the artist must for the social historian to attempt Vol 11 1961: The People in the Street Government, and all our acts finally social justice. obey the official party line as laid down bring us the underground revolution® Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. Beeching lead to a more free and better world. It is for this reason that we are willing by Church and State for, by their very art of the peoples of Cuba. And N Vol 13 1963: Forces of Law and Order to seek information from the walls of nature, these organisations are conser­ m ust w a it Vol 14 1964: Election Years A C orrespondent . the Ewan Phillips Gallery in the belief vative and they cannot and will not A r th u r M o y sb , Each volume: paper 7/6 cloth 10/6. The paper edition of the Selections is available to readers of FREEDOM READING ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact PROPOSED GROUPS at 5/6 post free. Alan Ross, 116 Belmont Road, Reading, Berks. ROCHDALE. Please contact Richard Crawford. MUCH HAD1IAM. HERTS. 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Secre­ action. Contact I d Strauxx at RFD 2, ^ Wednesdays of month at M. Dey’s, 142 Walker N.W.6. Meetings 8 p.m. every Tuesday. Public tary: Dave Poulson, 9 Boland Street, Faltowfield. stock. Vermont 05091, USA E. A. GUTKJND Road, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at Liz Smith's, meeting Portobello Road, Saturday. September Manchester, 14. SWEDEN. Stockholm Anarchist Fad* The Expanding Environment 3 Sinclair Road. Correspondence to either address. 30, noon, on corner of Lonsdale and Portobello Contact Nadir, Box IV1Q4, Stockholm W S* BEXLEY ANARCHIST GROUP. Correspondence Road, W II. Speakers: Jim Huggon and others. SOUTH WALES CANADA) Winnipeg. Anybody mtecert (illustrated) boards 8/6 to Paul Wildish. 2 Cumbrian Avenue, Baxnehurst. LEE, LONDON, S.E.12. Anarchist-Radical Direct action/anarchy contact O ) Naa* GEORGE BARRETT Kent. Group. Contact ‘Paul', c/o Lewisham Group ANARCHIST FEDERATION Malheeon Avenue. Winnipeg, IT, Man -cha BELFAST: Contact Tony Adams, 11 Winetavern (above). 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Brian James W Chin, 323 Fourth Street. Hi BIAR1E-LOU1SE BERNER1 RESISTANCE GROUP. C/o Birmingham Peace and Maureen Richardson. LIBERTARIAN TEACHERS* ASSOCIATION. Mmn 55130, USA Action Centre (formerly CND office), Factory PLYMOUTH ANARCHIST FEDERATION. Con­ Meetings—discussions—activities. Contact Peter GROUP-lTlRKASDV A ugM fc* ARMS** Neither East nor West ^elected Road, Birmingham. 19. tact J. Hill, 79 Underlane, Plymstock, Plymouth. Ford. 82 North Road, Highgate. N 6 (Tel.' Melbourne (Mvetafti a * Writings) (paper) 6/- BOLTON. Get in touch with Les Smith, 74 Devon. IIIM lIfc I A Discussion with the Author of Neither God Nor Master

Concerning ‘Ni Dieu ni Maitre' (Neither God nor Master). chism. Again, the soviet republic Take, for example, the extra­ ing in letters of fire the monopoli­ (Delphes editions, 25 rue des Boulangers, Paris 5e.) was in origin a federal republic. ordinary episode involving the sation of the October revolution by Interview with Daniel Guerin by Luc Decaunes at ‘T E P Magazine', Today it is only so on paper. libertarian peasants of Southern a State communism. Eastern Theatre, Paris. May 5, 1966. A third element, which anarchism Ukraine. Under the driving force of The Spanish revolution has itself 1. Why have you produced this book these'? Is days anarchism really added later, is revolutionary syndi­ one of them, Nestor Makhno, they shown that despite the tragic up-to-date? calism. To assure solidarity and made revolutionary guerilla warfare, circumstances of a civil war soon To begin with, I undertook this huge work of 664 pages, bound in interdependence among the directly- routing not only the Red Army but gravely aggravated by the interven­ black cloth like a bible, containing both history and anthology, because controlled enterprises, and at the also the white interventionist armies tion of foreign power, workers’ con­ a publishing house came and asked me to. In passing, I should like to same time to animate the communes, of Denikin and Wrangel, set up free trol can succeed, in the town as in congratulate the Nataf brothers, two young journeymen publishers, who, primary units of administration, an soviets at a time when the soviets the country, and also the seeking of despite very limited means, did not fear to launch out on this courageous organisation was necessary stem­ had already been taken in hand by a reconciliation by libertarians be­ venture. As to the present-day relevance of anarchism, the world of ming directly from the working class the bolshevik State, and entered into tween anarchist principles and the publishing everywhere shows some sign of it. In France, in England, in and encircling and linking its diverse conflict with the commissars in­ hierarchies and rank, freely adhered the United States, in Italy, in Holland, in South America, on every side activities, itself built in federal stalled ,in the countryside by the to. Here we have evoked the figure in most recent times there have appeared either complete works on fashion: such is the role devolving central government. They were of a great anarchist soldier: Durruti. anarchism or selected texts and monographs by great libertarian thinkers. to the trade unions. These, in capi­ finally crushed by a Red Army serv­ 5. What are the human values W hy is there this present interest? talist society, are simple organs for ing a more and more dictatorial which, in your view, form the Firstly, to try to make reparation for an injustice. A philosophy as claims and disputes; in socialist State. essence of anarchism? original and as germinal as anarchism should not have' to fall into oblivion, society, they add to their primary Another episode seems particu­ Anarchism above all values the i An attempt is being made to bring it out. function of defending the workers a larly enlightening to me. That was individual. The free individual is Next, because it is apparent that anarchism as a doctrine of social co-ordinating role, a structural role, the revolt of the sailors of Kronstadt the starting point for anarchist con­ ■reconstruction is still alive. Of course, it no longer has much weight in an initiating role and a stimulating in March 1921. In our Anthology struction of a free society. Here you tto d ay ’s affairs, but its ideas have survived with greater success than its and educational role. By means of you will find lengthy extracts from find again the federalist principle. ^followers. a powerful workers’ trade unionism, the newspaper which the rebels The individual is free to associate By and large, anarchism remains up-to-date on two counts: an indispensable unity can be daily printed: thelzvestia of Kron­ or not to associate, he is always First, for a century now, it has perceived and denounced with the voice assured without having to revive the stadt. These sailors were revolu­ free to break with an association. P prophecy itself, the future misdeeds of an authoritarian and dictatorial works of the state. In the anarcho- tionaries. In 1917 they were on the Such an agreement in the anarchist cialism, based on an all-powerful State, and directed by a minority syndicalist Catalonia of 1936, the point of fighting for the communist opinion is far more solid and pro­ ^hich aims to monopolise the science of historical development. municipal ’ unit, i.e. the commune, revolution. Furthermore, they were ductive than the so-called social con­ closely connected with the working (And then, to this type of socialism, it has opposed another which I will and the local union were the same tract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in fil libertarian, founded on contrary notions, working from below up- thing. The CNT tended to merge class in the factories of Petrograd, which libertarians see only imposture bards and not from the top down, appealing to the creative initiative of with the Republic itself. then the most important industrial and social compulsion. P individual and the spontaneous co-operation of the masses. centre in Russia. They dared to The individual is not a means but {Today the serious shortcomings of the first type of socialism are felt 4. In the revolutionary methods clash of with the bolshevik powers. an end, the final goal for society. ftactly in those countries which have built that socialism into dogma.' anarchism, have you found They, any accused the Communist Party The anarchist wants to help the in­ the level of production, it is seen that it is not sufficiently profitable, elements which give a new slant of to being detached from the masses, dividual develop to the full, to culti­ jjd, to correct its excesses, one turns, as in Jugoslavia, to the school of political affairsl of having lost the trust of the wor­ vate and deploy all his creative ^anarchists. Anarchism was for a long while kers, of having become bureaucratic. powers.. Society benefits from this simply a doctrine without possibility Has anarchism had, and doesThese elements are so numerous They denounced the taking in hand in the end as much as the individual, and so varied that I could not, this of application. Then, during the of the soviets, the State control of for it is no longer formed of passive vtill have, connections with present century, it underwent the acism? evening, enumerate them all. I will the' unions. They attacked the all- beings, servile yes-men, but it is a limit myself to those I think most test of practical revolutionary acti­ powerful police machine which sum total of free forces, a collection \ would say that anarchism is in- vity: during, particularly, the course ble from Marxism. Their important. weighed on the people, dictating its of individual energies. To start with, anarchism, since of the Russian revolution and the laws by bullets and terror. They From this formulation of freedom 1 is a family one. They are Spanish revolution. lers who are at the same time Proudhon, has made itself the advo­ protested against a harsh State capi­ all anarchist humanism flows, its and enemies. cate of workers’ association—what The second section of our antho­ talism where the workers were no­ rejection of religious authority and by are two variants of the same, we call today direct action.- logy, the most stirring because the thing but simple employees, ex­ Puritanism in behaviour. In this ler socialism. Libertarians do not want econo­ most concrete and living, will be, I ploited as before. They required the latter domain, that of sexual liberty, leir origin is common. The mic sanction by private capital. believe for many of our readers, a re-establishment of soviet demo­ the anarchists, well before Freud, |>gues who engendered them Similarly, they reject sanction by real eye-opener. They will find cracy, and elections free for all the Rene Guyon rationalists and the many things there which are scarcely their inspiration from the the State, for proletarian revolution persuasions. Thus, well before the existentialists, figured as pioneers. appreciated or carefully concealed beginning of the reign of Stalin, men g-class movement itself, from would be in their view empty of till elsewhere. of the people were already denounc­ Tr. G. N. Charlton . ort undertaken by the workers content if the workers fell under Ihe nineteenth century with the the power of new tyrants: the aim of liberation from every bureaucrats. Ben. Direct action means workers’ con­ eir long-term strategy and final trol in the factory. The worker are identical. They want to frees himself: he is at the same time irthrow capitalism, abolish the a producer limited to his special te, get rid of all their guardian skills and also co-director of the How to Start a Work Team oppressors, and bestow the social business. He loses his alienation. ealth on the workers themselves. He also ceases to be a wage-earner. On certain of the methods of He receives his share of the profits OIXTEEN VOLUNTEERS arrive in a jects requiring greater community orga­ that we know. The constructive work ching these aims, they do not of the business. town, to undertake a month’s work nisation can be undertaken; and peace makes it clear that we affirm our belief Bisagree. But this does not go for But what one has in mind is not on a planned work project. It’s like an education can be similarly extended. The in a better way of life. It helps people to Kill of them. There are areas of the setting up of a kind of collective ordinary work camp, undertaking volun­ team can help Peace Action Groups and compare the creative work that we do f libertarian thought in the writings of body of employers, soaked in ego­ tary labour—decorating housing asso­ radical War on Want branches to start. and the associated ideas, with the destruc­ Marx as in the writings of Lenin. tistical interest. All directly-con­ ciation buildings, community centres, Later, some team must stop roaming and tion that has been planned by the youth clubs, old and disabled people’s start a Peace Action Centre in a suitable governments. Malatesta, the great Italian liber­ trolled enterprises are unified and interdependent. The only object houses; laying out adventure playgrounds building, staffed by a full team, still prac­ I don’t believe that what people read tarian, observed that almost all and recreation areas; and, when more tising the voluntary mutual aid principles. in the local and national press about t anarchist literature of the nineteenth should be the common good. They experienced, erecting partitions, out­ Only at this stage, unfortunately, will a any peace activity is very helpful to our century ‘was impregnated with follow a plan of interdependence, houses and single-storey buildings. In team be able to ask families to join. cause. Sometimes the publicity is un­ Marxism’. Bakunin was the trans- not bureaucratic, as in State com­ any town there are needs that a team Before that, team members will mostly sympathetic, and, at best, it’s only a few [ lator of Capital into Russian. munism, but directed from below of voluntary workers can respond to— be single or married without children. printed words that can easily be for­ L Their century-long disagreement and controlled in common by dele­ first the team would cope with the sorts What I aim for is a broad development gotten in .the barrage of establishment j focuses mainly on the timing of the gates from the various units of of jobs mentioned above that are so (co-ordinated but not centralised) of propaganda. Peace education, I would [ withering away of the State following production. . * often ignored by the commercial and centres and mobile teams, experimenting say, requires personal contact, conver­ Another constructive element in welfare systems. with many types of work, education and sation, involvement and challenge. The' a revolution, on the role of minorities work camp situation provides a good anarchism, is federalism. Alongside the basic constructive work community organisation, in various parts [(conscientious or powerful?) and is the peace education—using films, a of the country—cities, agricultural areas, setting for this sort of contact. Young [ also on the utilisation of the methods The idea of federation was not bookstall in the town centre, personal new towns, etc. people, can join in at weekends, help in , of middle-class democracy (univer- bom in some theorist’s brain-box. conversations on the work site and in Where this scheme would differ from whatever work is being done and talk [ sal suffrage, etc.). Added to this It grew spontaneously during the coffee bars and pubs. The main subjects conventional work camp organisations is with a variety of team members on a were a certain number of misunder­ French Revolution. In the void would be war, hunger, apathy, com­ that it would not be a non-political personal level. (The team would take standings and verbal squabbles. created by the foundering of the old munity action, and the different results charity, but persist in emphasising the its ‘weekend holiday’ in mid-week.) [ But the ditch between anarchism absolutist State, the municipalities of work planned in response to need and evils behind the needs that exist, and in Whether they join or not, I believe they jand Marxism did not yawn to a tried, by federating, to rebuild that done in response to profit. pointing to the connections between our will have gained more from the personal encounter than they could from any «lf until our own time, that is, national unity. The festival of the ' Accommodation will be in a hall or current way of life and the suffering hostel, as for ordinary work camps. caused by poverty and war. Secondly, literature. rhen the Russian revolution, liber- Federation of July 14, 1790, was it would not be a holiday activity, but To sum up this section, I believe that that of a voluntary union—a union From experience, most of the food and rian and soviet, in October, 1917, much else will be given by the local rather a presentation of what values the scheme I propose will be better than j*d to give way little by little to a more solid by far than that imposed producers and retailers. Other necessities ought to control our everyday lives. most methods of campaigning for the ormidable State apparatus, a dicta- by the pleasure of the Prince. can be bought with money collected There are two ways of looking at this ideas we believe in; but I also believe rship and police-state. Anarchist federalism means unity from door-to-door. People respond well scheme; both of them are important: that it will be something more. THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS Anarchism and the anarchist idea without compulsion, i.e. an agree­ to such a team, even though it is clearly THE-IMMEDIATE EFFECTS bve been liquidated in Russia as radical pacifist in its approach. The In my experience, a programme of Because it is difficult and distant, we ment freely entered into, readily constructive work is the best basis for can’t shirk the job of preparing for the eve been the soviets themselves. dissoluble, between various basic standard of material consumption will It is since this time that the undoubtedly be low, but sufficient: the communicating the ideas of unilateralism . sort of human society that would be a groups, on the economic as well as standard of life should be high. and non-violence. The fact that you are full expression of the ideas we hold. I ‘dges have been cut. These administrative level. This pyramid caring about a local need prompts people would call it a non-viplent society, but idges, I believe, are there to be After the project in one town, the federation links locally, regionally, team moves on to another place where to listen to the idei^s that you believe this is not very different from what built by the socialists of today, nationally, indeed internationally, help has been requested on some work in; your work creates a basis for rtspect, many non-authoritarian socialists and ialism could yet be regenerated associating at the same time the project. In each town the team should even though agreement may not be constructive anarchists speak of. It seems one succeeded in injecting the directly controlled enterprises and gain a few more full-time participants. reached. Secondly, the work indicates to me quite possible to initiate pilot schemes of the sort of society we want rchist serum into State com- the autonomous communes. With an increase in numbers and expe­ the positive approach which is the ism . rience, after a number of month-long reality behind unilateralism; Much of to achieve. What I aim for is a team Here I should like to recall that . projects, the team will be able to split our propaganda talks of what Britain practising the values of the non-violent What useful elements have youthe ideas of Lenin on the national into two and continue separate series of should stop doing, what weapons the society in the midst of present-day towns & in the texts gathered in yourquestion, that is the right of free projects in different areas, maintaining Government should scrap—it seems and cities; to draw people into this way 'hology, for the construction determinationof a and the right of an average team size of about sixteen. negative, although in reality it is the of life, expand its scope, continuously 1st society? separation, are borrowed from anar­ With further experience, longer pro­ most positive affirmation of humanity Continued on page 6 Lord Cameron’s Biased Report

T'HE RECENT report of the Court of Inquiry, headed by Lord Cameron, do just what they like, often breaking grounds for the termination of the indi- on the site, and among union officials into the Barbican and Horseferry Road disputes, is a document the WRA of the industry, where men dividual’s employment. involved, that a return to work would which is not only biased against workers, but also exceeds its terms of are sacked one day, for no real reason, On the day the three steel-fixers, one mean that the notices issued on October reference when it recommends alterations to the Working Rule Agreement and others are taken on the next and a * steward, were sacked, the disputes 28 would eventually be withdrawn. This where men are injured and the com­ of the industry. It is not only a vicious attack on union democracy in the panel met and agreed that there was a belief appears to have sprung from the panies get out of their responsibilities. basis for discussion to relax the targets, reference in the Executive Committee’s building industry, but could also set a precedent for similar inquiries into While a Court of Inquiry is set up to However, the important thing that came instructions to “establishing normal work other industries. As such, it is anti-trade union and recommends proposals look into the two disputes, it is pertinen out in Myton’s evidence to the inquiry, on the site”,* On November 3 the site which are an attack on the working class of this country. to ask ‘why isn’t the industry looked into and which has an important bearing on reopened and Mytons received an en­ However, before I examine the report and its recommendations, I think as a whole?* Effective union oiganisation the dispute, is that production was quiry, via Mr. Jayne of the employers’ it is important to give a picture of the building industry, as it faces the will inevitably bring about conflict with hindered by the continual alterations to association, from Mr. Weaver, General operatives. I, myself, have worked in the industry since I was sixteen the management, but what about the the plans by the architects responsible Secretary o f NFBTO, asking whether, in and I think that my experiences are far from uncommon. The first thing hundreds of cases where employers get for the design of the contract. The view of the return to work, Mytons that often astonishes outsiders is the casualness of the employment, not out of paying redundancy payments and Cameron Report admits this, but then would withdraw the notices. The corn- even when these are taken through the only of general labourers, but also of craftsmen, who may have served attacks the Works Committee by saying, pany replied that they would not and so, dispute procedure, long delays are ex­ ‘The consequence of this was to create the following day, when the notices ex- apprenticeships and achieved educational diplomas for the skill and perienced because the employers find further difficulties in the operation of pired, the work on the contract came to knowledge of their trade. ways of delaying these meetings. the bonus scheme and to provide oppor- a halt. We have been described as ‘dry land sailors’ and it is not unusual for This is the jungle background to the tunity for those who wished to cause a building worker to have worked for as many as six different employers Barbican and Horseferry Road disputes, trouble to do so. We accept the con­ STOOD BY THEIR STEWARDS one which can only be tamed and made during the course of a year. Only about half of the employees in the tention that the Works Committee, under Although the unions reached an agree­ industry belong to a union and the blame for this situation must be laid tolerable by effective trade union organi­ the leadership of certain individuals— sation at site level. This is exactly ment with Mytons for the reopening o£ at the door of the unions. Time and time again they have been either exploited these difficulties in order to the site without six members of the the sort of organisation that had been unable or unwilling to press for high basic rates of pay or adequate keep the site in a constant state of fer­ Works Committee, so far this has not built up on both these sites and from working conditions. ment and also that the union officials been achieved. When Mr. Eaton cx-i this it is obvious that conflict and An industry such as ours needs effective trade union organisation, directly concerned had lost effective plained the agreement to the cm ployeesj disputes would occur. control of the Works Committee and its probably more than one which is on a more permanent basis. Its tem­ of Mytons, they rejected it and said theyj On both sites, either all the operatives, members.’ porary nature poses tremendous problems for trade union organisation, would not return without these six or a section, had been involved in a First of all, why should workers’ stewards. but there has not been any real attempt to overcome these by the Krade number of strikes and work-to-rules, bonus earnings suffer because of the union leadership. ‘unusual number of changes in instruc­ On two occasions Mr. Eaton has failcdJ several of which had gone through the to get the Myton lads back. T h c j tion and of design in the course of disputes machinery, with the men’s case Cameron Report says that men employee® THE JUNGLE carrying out this contract’? Surely this usually being upheld. The unofficial by Turriffs and Laings ‘deterred any] Many readers have, no doubt, watched is a management problem, to be settled action was always condemned, but the operatives who had arrived intending t

JTF EVER THIS country gets round to Festival is just another splendid feature terrible boob. Both men were staunch many People To See and Places To Be open. Then we would have a festival | putting a man on the moon, it should of their much contemplated, over­ teetotallers.) Seen At. The dress, the language, the worthy of the name, more accessible, 1 tangible, meaningful than any we have choose an Edinburgh man. No other exposed navel. The City Fathers, squat­ By this time, Corporation meetings lifestyles knit together and form a sub­ yet had. It is because, to a large extent, ! could be so acclimatized, so much at ting like Gargoyles on the Royal Mile, had become something of a Festival in culture so self-sufficient and complete all these things are locked away, shut ■ home in rarefied atmosphere. Huff and eulogise the culture vultures with one themselves, with councillors giving per­ in detail that one wonders whether the in behind doors, and priced beyond the puff as much as you like in this city, hand and knock off a third of their formances so uproarious that even the actual performance being put on is reach of the mass of people, that they you will still not muster enough hot air Corporation grant with the other. Ob­ Traverse Theatre could be green with merely incidental to the main business remain commodities, meaningless lumps to blow up a balloon, let alone run a serve, too, the startling progress of the envy. Only the opening bars of the of social intercourse and display. The Festival. city’s much vaunted opera house. You externals — the surroundings — become of experience, remarkable neither for city’s 21st Festival drowned out the their beauty nor their wonder. Scotland’s capital is perhaps the most can view it, any time after Venus de ensuing drama. Herbert, meantime, hot­ part of it; the shadow becomes the sub­ beautiful city in the world; it is certainly Such—and more—is the myth of Milo has grown live arms. Until that foot from Russia, had seen to it that the stance; the medium, the message. the most Protestant. It is austere, devout, Edinburgh’s Festival. It is 21 years old time, Edinburgh can well and truly Official Festival Club, where last year But more than this perhaps, sheer puritanical; it is also bigoted, arrogant sing for it. this year, yet has still no real break- he had been witness to scenes of un­ economics, rather than social style, is and dour. Each year, when the Festival through to celebrate, no startling success,, One wonders, at this point, what in bridled lechery and snogging to boot, the main factor explaining the growing comes round, it is like a dram too much. no promising hope for its future. It fact happens to the ratepayers’ money, was fettered with entrance regulations, rift between Festival and city. The For this reason, perhaps, the Festival remains, as culture of this type normally considering that the rates here arc the so vindictively complex and ruthlessly cheapest price for most of the concerts is something of a sinister, indoor affair, does, something of a middle-class affair highest outside London. Well, last year enforced, that attendances crashed. It is 12/ 6 d.; for the Traverse plays, 7/6d. the frivolities bidden away, so to speak. blown up out of all proportion to its Lord Provost Herbert (Ulysses is the could only happen in Edinburgh, thank plus membership fee; for the Festival Any unsuspecting visitor would have most disgusting film and should be pub­ God, films, 7/6d. and over; for galleries and meaning------e or permanent worth. No n u doubtciOl every right to gasp: ‘Festival? What fnr to r'nmA *___ . _ licly destroyed) Brechin went to the Against this background of hypocrisy, exhibitions, the variations are again on for years to come, the trumpets shall Festival?’, were it not for the fast multi­ Commonwealth Games in Jamajca-r- bigotry and farce, the Festival is played a considerably higher theme than those sound. But here m Edinburgh, you canj plying, semi-degenerate lumps of proto­ himself, Wife and son, that is—flaunting out amidst—sheer indifference. This is, of last year. Each time I tell my friends hardly hear them for the y*wns plasm, better known in less Calvinistic a specially prepared, lavishly illustrated perhaps, the most disturbing aspect of I can’t afford to be audio-tactile on £8 Sept. 1967 B il l J a m ie so n . circles as young people, congregating brochure about Edinburgh, and promis­ the affair. For the majority of Edin­ per week, it has a cathartic effect, arous­ outside galleries, theatres and folk-song ing at least a £JLm, scheme for the burgh people, living in slum tenements ing an immediate, sympathetic response pubs. There are few indications, apart Games. To the astonishment—and or in new Corporation flats down in and confessions all round to the effect from the occasional multi-coloured horror—of those clued up on Edinburgh Leith, the Festival means next to no­ that they see more of the Festival on Fringe poster or an AA sign, that any­ politics, it was accepted. Later, with the thing. It is—like the faintly heard strains television than they would otherwise thing at all is happening in the capital, Right Hon. Herbert jaunting round of the Tattoo—a distant affair, for visi­ care to admit. never mind an international Festival. Russia (and incidentally crashing through tors, for other folk. Those agencies, Nothing is really new in Edinburgh. Subscription Rates Ironically, though, local people still talk a chair at a civic dinner in Kiev), the so highly vaunted for their mass appeal Unlike London, where each visit reveals in terms of the city ‘coming alive* for Council decided to axe expenditure —like the Pop Theatre, Pop Poetry, or for me a city barely recognizable from FREEDOM only (per year) these three weeks. The mind boggles at down to £650,000—presumably with a Pop Art—have failed signally to stand the last, it has a built-in resistance to *1 10s. ($4.50) surface mail the other 49. more feasible papier macho scheme in out in this three-week cluster of non- anything that is new-fangled or modem, £2 16s. ($ 8.00) airmail Hypocrisy nowadays, rather than mind—thus bringing down the wrath of events. They have, instead of converting and any real experimentation during the ■shame, is the prevalent attitude to the Games officials. and changing them, become a part, fossi­ Festival has an even chancq of being ANARCHY only (V* 9 Festival in this city. Edinburgh people— Meanwhile, back in the Kremlin, Pro­ lized and eternally preserved from killed stone dead. In any other city it £1 6 s. ($3.50) surface mail the ones who count—and do most of vost Brechin was hurriedly bowing out, genuine popularity. Like the, Traverse, may be possible to drag the sculptures £2 7s. ($7.00) airmail the counting where money is concerned leaving behind him a bottle o f Leith the. Pop Theatre and the Fringe Poetry out of damp dingy halls, to bring poetry whisky for Mr. Kosygin and receiving —are a profoundly narcissistic lot. Ogle Sessions have gn( inherent tendency tq and painting onto the streets, where it COMRINED SUBSCRIPT*0 * other people’s anatomy you may not; in turn from same a bottle of vodka. attract the most esoteric apd exclusive of jwudd really matter, and music, freed (Only later did officials discover the ogles your own, you may. For them, the people. The pertorrhances become so from concert hall formalities, into the management also wanted the men to office for the future in the discretion of sympathy with the Works Committee. Jn the recommendation for the return dock in for work, already wearing their TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE the appropriate authority, which would The proposals for a return to work at to work, the Court says that stewards working clothes, a thing unheard of on nised value in the promotion of good in effect in this event be the selected Mytons are those that were agreed to on the sites should be appointed and not building sites. A stand obviously had to industrial relations.’ No criticism is officer or committee of the NFBTO. In by the unions and management in elected. This is company unionism and be made and the men took strike action. made of Sir Cecil Mant, who in actual addition wc recommend that no creden­ February, but surely it is still up to the is totally alien to the democratic method The management called upon the Works fact endorsed Sunley's action. tials should be given to a Federation men to decide if they want to go back by which stewards arc at present elected. Committee to get the men back, but at JOINT SITES COMMITTEE steward from whom credentials have 'without their stewards. Again they are While the Court blames the Sunley’s a mass meeting it was decided not to The Cameron Report claims that the previously been withdrawn.’ not to be consulted, and surely this is a management for provoking the strike, it return and so Sunleys sacked the entire Federation steward on the Barbican, The Report infers, without any evi­ decision that should and must be taken recommends that the members of the Works Committee for ‘industrial mis* Lou Lewis, and on Horseferry Road, dence, that both Jack Henry and Lou by the men employed on the site before Works Committee should not hold the conduct'. Jack Henry, were members of the Lewis got themselves elected for the it was closed down. positions of stewards. This is a complete At the Court of Inquiry, the company London Building Workers’ Joint Sites ‘mischievous desire to disrupt and sub­ The Court does not see why the site travesty of justice, for the Court also admitted they had provoked the strike Committee. The Report accepts the vert’. This is just rubbish and the should not reopen on the basis of the goes on to recommend that the site be in order to sack the Works Committee statements of both companies ‘as to the recommendation on the ballot for the February agreement and says, ‘This is reopened with the agreements on bonus, and said that Mr. Mills, the President alleged extent to which the disputes and election of shop stewards is just a all-important in that it will enable the and clocking-in should be the same as of the NFBTO and executive member disruptive activities were fomented by method to try to prevent militants from unions to regain control of the situation tftose in operation before the site was of the Amalgamated Society of Wood­ this Committee or through its’ agents, holding these offices. The supervision which they have temporarily lost If the shut down. workers. had said that ‘the troublemakers members or other persons acting on its by local union officials could mean that site is again reopened on these terms, The only reason for the victimisation should be sacked*. He said he would be behalf. In other words, the Cameron these men could see to it that their own “picketing” would neither have union of the Works Committee is because, in support nor statutory basis, and, there­ a member of the NOC and would be Report thinks that the Joint Sites Com­ choice is given preference. The way that the opinion of the Court, they were sympathetic to the management's case. mittee had control of both the Works stewards are elected now guarantees that fore, the preservation of peace and the under the control of the Joint Sites right of individuals to pass freely to and This was said at a meeting held in the Committees and yet all decisions were the members elect the steward they Committee. The whole report is aimed from the site on their lawful occasions office of Sir Cecil Mant, Controller taken by the men on the sites. want and replace him easily if they want at destroying this Committee and its to. is a matter for the law to secure if General of the Ministry of Public The Court had power to subpoena recommendations are intended to restore attempts are made to infringe or prevent Building and Works, a Government offi­ witnesses to give evidence about the The Report tells the unions to instruct the authority of the union executives cial who was in full knowledge of the Joint Sites Committee and still they their members not to donate money to its exercise.’ It seems that either the and the NFBTO over the rank and file. plans of the management. In fact Sun- accepted the evidence of Sunleys and unofficial organisations or strikes. The Court is trying to make its own laws or Some might say it is ‘inexplicable’ that icy's later wrote to him informing him Mytons and referred to leaflets and ar­ ‘a man with the experience and replica­ of what they were going to do. ticles in papers that this Committee was tion of Mr. Danny McGarvey should In provoking this strike, the company behind the disputes on the two sites. The have allowed his name to be appended broke a ‘status quo' procedure agree- Report then says that ‘From the evidence to such an anti-trade union document*. i ment, which was to be operated for a presented to us it seems sufficiently estab­ But surely, as a union leader himself, he month. It would mean ‘that a return to lished that this is an organisation of has faced similar situations from his the situation prior to the dispute would shop stewards on London construction own members. Danriy McGarvey might [ exist until negotiations have taken place sites which owes no allegiance to any attack the Government’s legislation on i before the management take any disci- recognised industrial organisation and incomes, but when it comes to the rank [ pi inary action'. The management, or which has taken no part in any regular and/ file undermining the authority of t rather that directional level of manage* negotiations concerning wages and con­ their executives, McGarvey is on the [ ment. broke this agreement, made by ditions of workers on these sites, nor employers’ side of the fence. This Report l Mr. Nutt, the contracts manager, and so. has it claimed any right or interest to should be thrown out by the building n s the report said, Tn acting as they did, do so.* workers. Union executives will obviously I however, we are of the opinion that the The Report goes on to say that the try to implement the recommendations. (company were immediately responsible Committee is ‘unnecessary’, but this con­ However, the rank and file should resist ■for bringing about this stoppage of work clusion is quite outside the purpose of any attempts, by them, to control the B nd were to blame in certain important the inquiry. It is because the unions, and activities and infringe on the democracy ^particulars.. They destroyed the authority in particular the NFBTO, have aban­ that exists in their unions. their own officer, Mr. Nutt, they doned regular meetings of stewards for If the Myton lads again vote against ■ S berately broke agreements entered in- the purpose of consultations and co­ returning without the six stewards, then K with full authority by Mr. Nutt only ordination, that the Joint Sites Com­ mittee has come into existence. It fills every effort should be made by building gfew days before. They were in breach workers on other sites to ensure that the their obligation and' the WRA and a gap caused by the lack of militancy site is not opened with ‘scab* labour. jy “failed to make full use of the and drive by the unions. Building workers previously employed by Justry's own conciliation machinery’V OUTSIDE ITS REFERENCE Sunleys should insist less on going back ^Oespite this criticism of the company, The Cameron Report again goes out­ with their original Works Committee. Cameron Report recommends that side its terms of reference when it recom­ Myton Workers Vote— All rank and file union members should Federation Secretary, Jack Henry, mends changes in the WRA concerning Not to Return without their Stewards make every effort to prevent the intro­ the other members of the Works the election of stewards. It says that duction of the recommendation of "xnmittee, should not hold any ste­ these should be supervised by local appointed stewards. ms' credentials on this site when it is union officials and notice should be pub­ executives of unions already do this, but just does not know the Trades Disputes Opened. They found the company lished in a recognised channel. The surely this is up to individuals, anyway, It is up to the rank and file building Act, 1906, for this Act says nothing workers to bring final victory to eleven ilty and punished the Works Com- election should be by ballot. ‘On taking and has nothing to do with the inquiry. about pickets being illegal when they rittee. They even say they do not want office members of the Committee should The whole tone of the Report is biased months of struggle and to prevent the have not got the backing of a union. union executives and employers from criticise those who attended the be required to give a written undertaking against any form of militancy. ‘Good­ I think building workers know the law Htteting in Sir Cecil Mant’s office and to abide by the rules not only of their will’ is supposed to settle everything and putting site union organisation into a on picketing far better than Lord straitjacket. igo on to say: ‘Such meetings and dis- own union but the WRA under penalty any stand made in defence of conditions Cameron and will not be intimidated Icussions are a regular occurrence in of suspension, dismissal from the Com­ is condemned. Even local union officials by this lie. ■ndustry and have a proved and recog- mittee and disqualification from holding are condemned for having acted in P.T. The Burning of the Reichstag THE NIGHT February 27, 1933, prove that the three Communists had of- West Berlin, where the case of Van stag as a protest against Hitlerite diarism, rejecting the claim of the de­ ' ^ a fire broke out in the palace of been implicated and he asked for their der Lubbe was re-examined last June. The violence. fence who maintained that his defunct the Reichstag, the seat of the German discharge on the grounds of insufficient Italian newspaper Messegero Veneto, on ‘Neither the judges who condemned client had acted from political motives, national parliament. The first one to be evidence. On behalf of his fellow Com­ June 24, 1967, stated, in an article by him to death, nor the historians who and therefore merited rehabilitation.’ arrested was the young Dutchman, munists Dimitrov made this statement, Mario Passati from West Berlin: later studied the case, wished to believe It will be seen that the judges of post- Marius van der Lubbc. who declared reported textually in Humaniti, official ‘The ghost which appeared before the Van der Lubbe’s statements that he had Nazi Germany are not much more en­ himself to be the author of the firfe. organ of the French Communist Party Court of Appeal in Berlin was that of acted alone, and had made his act of lightened than those of the Hitler period. Later three Bulgarians, who happened (17.12.1933): ‘Finally, I must say that Marius van der Lubbe, the twenty-four- protest without instigation from anyone. Marius van der Lubbe had, in any case, to be in Berlin at this time of crisis, were I do not accept the conclusions of the year-old bricklayer who was protagonist It was his brother who asked for his already been condemned as an instru­ arrested: George Dimitrov, TancfT and Procurator General who asked for our of the most clamorous trial of this cen­ rehabilitation by the Court of Appeal in ment of the Nazi tyranny in the so-called Popov, who were, along with the Ger­ discharge because of “lack of evidence”, tury: the Trial of the Burning of the Berlin, whose verdict has aroused so ‘International Trial* in London, where man leader. Ernest Tocrgler. implicated since this leaves the shadow of suspicion nearly all serious anti-fascists agreed in in the trial as accessories and instigators on we Bulgarians. I do demand, there­ swallowing the Stalinist detective stories. of the crime. fore, that Van der Lubbe be condemned But the affair is still not closed because The affair explained itself: as Musso­ for having harmed the proletariat, and Van der Lubbe’s brother has now turned lini and Fascism arrived in Italy in 1922 that we should be indemnified -for the to the Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, in­ with the complicity of the political par­ time we have wasted here.’ voking a recent law by the Parliament ties and Parliament, so, in Germany, On December 23 following, Van der in Bonn, which ‘permits resort to the Hitler and the Nazis gained power with Lubbe was condemned to death, while Supreme Court for the cancellation of the aid of the Reichstag; hence a blow the three Bulgarian Communists were sentences passed during the Nazi period at the Reichstag meant a blow at the released and taken by air to Moscow against the opponents of Hitler*. coup d'etat which had destroyed the where George Dimitrov became the ‘It does seem strange,’ writes the Weimar Republic. In fact, elections were Stalinist secretary of the Comintern. above-mentioned Passati, ‘that a man in progress to confirm Hitler's Chan­ Van der Lubbe was decapitated on can be condemned for malicious incen­ cellorship, and the Nazi supporters January 10, 1934. diarism who, without any doubt, acted eagerly seized on the Reichstag fire After the end of the Second World from political motives.* which they attributed to the Communists. War and the disappearance of the Nazi But all this has now academic value [ ^ * |s ^ loose a flood of speculation in dictatorship, there were people who only, so far as the condemned man is which the Communists themselves took remembered the strong support that Van concerned. What has been irrevocably part, refusing, like the Nazis, to believe der Lubbe's declarations had aroused established is the fact that he had always that Van dcr Lubbe did it alone, and told the truth, that he acted alone, free blaming the fire on to the Nazis. in Germany, especially in Holland, where he was known for his sincerity from any political subornation, moved The trial took place the following as a militant revolutionary, and then in only by his own love of liberty and by • December in Leipzig, and the main France and other parts of the world his hatred of Nazi barbarity and poli­ theme was as follows: although Van where the anarchists were almost unani­ tical hypocrisies. der Lubbe was declared to be the sole mous in defending the man, his state­ This is just what has always been main­ author of the fire, the Nazis exerted ments and his deed. The newspaper, tained by his Dutch friends and com­ themselves to show he had acted on Adunata, has tried to follow this affair rades who knew him, and by the anar­ behalf of the Communists, who, mean­ through the opposition press and has Reichstag on February 27, 1933, which many polemics. chists of Europe and America, who have while. had already convinced the rest of often gone ahead of the progress of the provoked, or at least served as a pretext ‘The magistrates have, in fact, absolved defended him from denigrations by the ‘anti-fascist* world that Van der Lubbe research. We can now inform our readers for, the Nazi coup d'etat. On the Marius van der Lubbe from the charge Nazi, Fascist and Communist politicians. was A poor weakling who had been that the sincerity of Van der Lubbe, accused's bench sat the Bulgarian Dimi­ of high treason, as a result of which he From UAdunata Dei Refrattari luscd as a tool by the Nazis. In the end, who was the hostage of the Nazis and trov who defended himself by attacking was condemned to death, but have (New York) ■he prosecutor of the Nazi dictatorship a decoy for the Stalinist dictatorship, has the Nazis, and the young Van der Lubbe, changed the sentence to one of eight to declare that he was unable to been confirmed by a Tribunal of the CHy who confessed to having fired the Reich­ years’ imprisonment for malicious incen­ trj j.w.s. WORKS TEAMS

Continued from page 3 exploitative systems can be starved of support. The Mersey Sound undertake more difficult tasks and ex­ periment with more basic areas of pro­ 8. Having lost any hope that the duction. The first teams might best be Labour Party can be the agency of PENGUIN MODERN POETS No. 13 fiogger-to-death of symbolic plastic perfect anthology piece in ten years f the sort of principles we hold to, we (The Mersey Sound)—Henri, McGough, flowers—and even they don’t last for provided anthologies are still c o iw i regarded as experiments in voluntary must start to create an alternative relationships. Patten. Penguin Books Ltd. 3/6d. ever. Readers of F reedom might for­ by then. Reeled approach to politics, and to life, give Henri for a lot: he wants to paint The label ‘pop poetry’ has been Here are some of the qualities of the which does not depend on compet­ INSBERG has called Liverpool ‘the ‘a red-and-black flag flying over parlia­ attached to the work of all three p

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M Y WIFE, like most other women, is Apart from the risk (and it’s a real one) for the Department of Agriculture and sequel, The Rocks Remain, will feel very aspects of this racket. Deer hunting is interested in fashion, Fashion trends of the seals becoming extinct, this is Fisheries officially carries out seal hunts strongly, for this charming and beautiful getting mechanised too. Portly business at the moment are strongly towards fur probably the cruellest form of hunting (particularly in the Lindisfarne Islands). animal. It makes you sick to realise that men don't make good stalkers. I have (doubtless a capitalist attempt to cash in going. Seals don’t get shot (at least not So out with the paper and pen, comrades, one solitary otter is hunted by forty personally seen ghillies lay hay on a on films like Dr. Zhivago). Until recently in Canada), bullets being expensive. and let them know how we feel about it! hounds. The otter takes longer to die Cairngorm mountain-side in order to (overlooking the expense angle) I might They’re clubbed to death and then It won’t do much good but every little than most animals since his vital organs lure deer within range of a fat gentleman, have been quite amenable to buying my skinned. There’s just one point. Canadian helps. are protected by thick layers of fat sitting in a Studebaker tracked hill wife a fur coat, but after reading some zoologists and animal cruelty workers Fox fur didn't go out in Granny's day, through which the hounds must tear. vehicle, behind a rifle with telescopic recent accounts of teal killing and seeing tell us that 50% of these animals are either. Today fox trimmings adorn the Rumblings arc being heard from various sights mounted on a tripod. And why a particularly revolting and convincing merely stunned and consequently are fancy garments of a lot of women. Now fossils in the Westminster museum, but not? After all he’s paying up to £1,000 leaflet put out by the 'Beauty without skinned alive. I’m no sentimentalist but, fit’s hard to feel a great deal of real by the time they got off their bottoms, a week for it. Within range, incidentally, Cruelty* organisation, I’m beginning to by God, 1 almost wept wlien 1 read that sympathy for the fox, who’s a nasty bit the otter will be a stuffed dummy like means anything from a mile to a mile realise that animals (as well as people I) the hunters go for the baby seal and one of work, really. But fox hunting is big most of them. A lot of them are huntin’, and a half, depending on the weapon are being exploited by the capitalist of the most heartrending photographs business. It keeps a lot of stables going shootin', flshin’ types, anyway. employed. The tinkle of empty cartridge system. I’ve ever seen shows a mother seal trying full blast, breeding nags for the upper The once noble red deer, portrayed cases sounds just like a cash register in It’s a salutory thought, often ignored to suckle life back into a skinned pup. classes (and, incredibly, not only the by Landseer, is now a mangy specimen, full swing. The hunters are interested because we spend so much time mulling There’s only one way to stop this upper classes, this ‘sport’ is actually get­ the breed growing weaker and scraggier only in the head and antlers, but venison, over man’s inhumanity to man, that slaughter'—don't buy sealskin. It goes on ting democratic) and vast sums of money every year. Deer hunting is really big on the market, goes for 10/- a pound! every time a pretty young thing uses a in Britain too; already feats have been arc laid out on hunting rig. The Govern­ business in Scotland. Big estates are now The estate collars that. hairspray, the chances are that the spray expressed by naturalists that the grey ment pays out a bounty of 10/- for every run on purely commercial lines for Lon­ So there we have it Mass slaughter was tested on a live rabbit’s eyes. If the leal is on the decline. Here, at least they fo* brush turned into a police station don business iyien. These worthies buy under our noses, cruelty perhaps only a rabbit goes blind—the spray’s all right shoot them, but is even this a quick and many a farmer keeps the rifle handy. up estates from impoverished aristos and few miles away. Killing and maiming so The same goes for perfume—if it blinds death? In order to kill a creature like The result? Reynard too is getting thin install themselves as part of the ‘lairdo- that your wife and mine smell sweet and a rabbit, it’ll knock out a man! When the seal, one would need a rifle of fairly on the ground. cracy’. They even go as far as inventing look nice. Bernard Heuvelmans, in his we consider the vast multi-million pound heavy calibre (usually, I believe, the A particularly nasty hunting racket, of their own tartan and tweed patterns. book On The Track Of Unknown cosmetics market there must be a hell of Lee-Enfield .303 is used). Now I’m a which | had hardly heard, was reported Deer hunting has gained extra ’respec­ Animals, forecasts that land mammals a lot of cruelty going on—cruelty for the pretty expert shot with this weapon and recently by the Sunday Times. Otter tability’ ever since a certain little boy (beyond domestic animals) may be totally sake of profits. There’s a real parallel I wouldn’t like to guarantee to hit a hunting. According to the writer, the (taught by his father, who is President exterminated before many years have in this with the way the arms barons try bobbing target in the sea (probably show­ otter is fast vanishing from our rivers. of the World Wild Life Fund) put a passed. Man, the great exterminator, is out new weapons in places like Vietnam ing only its head) from even 50 yards Now, of all our natural fauna, the otter is bullet through a certain stag. Some of also on the verg® of disposing of him­ —man and animals suffer in the cause of away. So it follows that many seals must probably the most delightful and harm­ his mummy’s relations (who lack her self. A mad world, my masters—or—mad less creature we have. Anyone who has mammon. escape, badly wounded, to die in agony. immunity from death duties and income masters, my world! We can do something about this too, read King of Bright Water, and the A current craze exists for sealskin. tax) are cashing in on the commercial Ian S. Sutherland OUT OF THIS WORLD WILL YOU COMMIT ‘Enigmatic Film Made by Ingmar Bergman’ Times -

D r. VLADIMIR TKACHENKO left England sign it.’ In the course of the article ably greater than hi the case of an at his own request, Captain David Tay­ there is a Freudian slip when Kay Beau­ ordinary letting.’ . . . lor and Mr. Trevor Copleston were YOURSELF (FINANCIALLY) champ gives the slogan of the Flower A man charged with shooting another freed from Algiers, Stuart Christie was People as ‘to live is better than to make man said at the Old Bailey, ‘He was a freed from Spain. On his release Cap­ war’. Later in the article she mysteriously friend. He was a thorough gentleman, tain Taylor said, ‘Free. I never really says, ‘Anyone who reads the hippy jour­ apart from seeking to entice my wife understood what that word meant be­ nal It or Ifow will know that it is com­ away.’ . . . fore.’ . . . pletely destructive. One of its slogans FOR FREEDOM ? The farm and food society has recom­ is “Pot cures acne”, another “All politics mended to the Egg Re-organisation Odham ’s press held a ‘cash-in’ by is pigshit” and a third; “Marxism is publishing Intro, a hippy-flower-people bullshit”. It also attacks Ben Whitaker, Commission that colouring in feeding "C'REEDOM PRESS has to move from From then on we shall have to start magazine in psychedelic colour, with MP, who wants “a new look taken at stuffs to deepen the colour of egg yolks its present premises in Fulham. Some paying a rent which will be crippling adverts indistinguishable from reading- the law on marijuana” which,’ says Kay should be banned by law, and also draws time in the very near future we have to if it is not properly organised. matter and reading-matter indistinguish­ Beauchamp, ‘one might think would attention to retailers passing off eggs as get out to make way for the redevelop­ There is also, of course, the cost of able from adverts. The front page asks please them. Not a bit of it. He is a ‘free range’ because they can get a the move itself and of the work that ment that the Fulham Borough Council (in white on black), ‘What’s all the fuss "chicken-shit intellectual”.’ Speaking of higher price, It also quotes findings that has planned for this area. must be done before we move in. This about flower children?’ and goes on other ^ opiates, John Lennon in Intro intensive egg production by battery- time we want to get the premises This is not a new, shock decision that '. . . Loud cries of free love, junkies, said, ‘Bangor was incredible, you know. farming increases virus infection in lay­ properly finished in advance, so that we has been suddenly sprung upon us. We nude parties. It seems any girl who Maharishi reckons the message will get ing ; flocks leading to malformation of don’t move into a disorganised set-up have known for years that sooner or throws off her office clothes on a Friday through if we can put it across. What he shells, distorted egg shapes and shell­ which never gets sorted o u t later we would have to face up to the says about life and the universe is the wrinkling. Over-production of eggs This will take a great deal of cash and night and puts on a cut-down Indian unpleasant task of moving all our stock, same message that Jesus, Buddha and makes disposal difficult and threatens hard work. We hope most of the latter bedspread is in danger of having her­ furniture—all the paraphernalia of a self labelled. It means nothing to these Krishna and all the big boys were put­ small producers, says the society. Fisher­ publisher’s office. It’s a daunting will come forward voluntarily. We have critics that the vast majority of Britain’s ting over. Mick came up there and he men in Cornwall dumped 7,000 pounds prospect, but even more daunting is the to raise a special fund for the former, and hippies arc part-timers; week-end flower got a sniff and he was on the phone say­ of pilchards back into the sea because prospect of finding suitable premises not we estimate that it will take above £500. children with five day a week jobs.’ ing : “Send Keith, send Brian, send them they were not required by the canners. too far from the centre of London at a Our .proposals therefore are these: Frank Zappa, leader of the ‘Mothers of all down. You just get a sniff and 3,778 people left the Scottish crofting counties in the last five years. The i reasonable rent. 1. We establish now a Moving Fund. Invention’, confesses in Intro that he’s you’re hooked”.’ He is believed to have famine still continues in India. . . . Because the premises at Maxwell Road vThe purpose of this we have just made in the movement for the money. He been referring to a Mr. Jagger. The ■ belong to a very good friend of Freedom obvious and the need is URGENT. This says, ‘If the hippy movement’s idea of Express takes umbrage at a Dick Lester A merica is to build a £1,800 million [ Press, we have been paying a laughably fund is now open! The sooner, we get changing the world is to sit around the film which shows (for eight seconds) a anti-ballistic missile defence system | low rent all the seven years we have been .this money in (and the more we get!), the parks, smoking pot, and getting beaten ventriloquist’s dummy resembling Chur­ against the possibility of Chinese nuclear I there, and although the premises were by better can we make the facilities for the by the cops, they’re welcome.’ Frank chill which says, ‘Any chance of a attack. A ‘Backgrounder’ issued by the movement. no means ideal for our purposes, they sees, comments Intro, himself basically battle? I want a battle.’ Mr. Lester said, US Information Service, informs us that: ■ have served us well since we moved from This is a once-and-for-all fund, to be as a businessman. ‘Once, those flower ‘The film is aimed at showing the over­ ‘Any measure of arms control or dis­ [ Holbom when the rent went sky-high considered as separate from: all responsibility of the war leaden. We Etbere. idiots asked us to play for nothing at a armament . obviously involves some 2. The Premises Fund, the sole love-in. Well, we just politely said no, are not having a go at any specific element of sacrifice. If the many coun­ 1 Now the time has come to face up to function of which is to cover con­ and bowed out quietly.’ Peace News leaden.’ . . . tries which do not already possess nuclear I the unpleasant reality of the cost of space tinuously the rent and rates of the carries a headline: ‘Protection threat to weapons forswear the right ever to Lin London. premises used by Freedom Press for its Hippy Industries’; relieved to find it was A tenant of the Nivasa Housing ■ For some time the comrades of general activities as already carried on— possess them—as is suggested in the draft not a Liberal Conference argument for Society’s hostel in Kensington Church and such part of those premises as can nuclear non-proliferation treaty now be­ ^Freedom Press have been searching for free trade we found it was an account took the hostel management before the guitable premises, but nothing tangible be used for other purposes such as fore the Geneva Conference—they sacri­ of how UFO bought itself £180-worth of West London Rent Tribunal about her fice an option which they may one day emerged. At the present time the meetings, etc. rent of £7 14s. a week. The chairman it possibility we have is for us to Black Muslim protection rather than choose to exercise. . . . Mr. Forster 3. In order to cover this, we ask our whatever it was the other ‘suits’ wanted of the society said it was ironic that his ve into the same building as our readers everywhere to commit them­ [US ‘disarmament’ delegate] pointed out for the same services. . . . society, which had been formed to that ‘nuclear-weapon states are already jnters in Whitechapel. This will have selves to a certain sum every year. The counteract exorbitant rents which some tin administrative advantages, but amount we shall need to raise will be a well ahead of non-nuclear weapon states The morning star , in the person of Kay landlords charged students, should itself as far as balance and progress toward lead to some inconvenience for those minimum of £1,000 a year. This means be brought before the tribunal. The tri­ work most at the office. We would Beauchamp, its feature writer (after disarmament are concerned.’ . . . that we need one thousand comrades months of fence-sitting), comes out defi­ bunal approved the present rent but said, ve enough space there, but as they willing to send us £1 every — say — ‘It has not been at all an easy matter to The annual general meeting of the are, the premises are sorely in nitely against soft drugs, concluding, ‘If January 1, irrespective of what they may someone got up an advertisement in decide what is a fair rent in the circum­ Christian Campaign for Nuclear Dis­ of cleaning and decoration, and send to the general Press Fund or mutual The Times declaring that it would be stances, We had to appreciate that in armament is to vote on changing its fcourse a lot of preparatory work in aid funds as they arise. We mention £1 immoral, in principle, to legalise the use running a hostel for young people there name to ‘Peace on Earth Movement’. way of decorating, building shelves, simply as a unit. Individuals who can of cannabis, I, for one, would gladly are overhead expenses which are prob­ Jon Quixote . jjtions, wiring and even plumbing will manage more, of course, should send /necessary before we could work more—ten contributions of £100 would fently from there. do! ic further substantial snag is that the 4. This fund should aim at eventually will be considerably higher than raising a capital sufficient to buy our own [are now paying. Nothing less than premises for a centre for anarchist activi­ a year would cover our rent and ties. Any surplus over our target of Stansted and the Autumn Assembly and lighting. Heating would £1,000; the modest interest over the year iobably be on top of that. of the amount in the bank or savings T WOULD be highly possible to write An attractive detailed poster was handed 6.15 from Charing Cross Embankment, ■One advantage of the place would be account; any collections or rents paid I a paper on ‘The Press Conference’ out which is available for display. round (or through?) the West End to “t the ground floor could be made by groups holding meetings in the as a way of life with sidelong references The second (and a half) conference was Finsbury Town Hall, where there would Available for meetings—holding about premises—additions such as these could to Marshall McLuhan but, groggy with to give details of the International be a meeting with an international ..many as the Lamb and Flag—and be accumulated to make a sum sooner two and a half press conferences and Mobilization for Peace in Vietnam on telephone link-up between demonstra­ S . could be used as a social centre or or later to enable us to rid ourselves of nearly a third (with Stuart Christie), I Saturday, October 21. It was presided tions in Washington and various Euro­ l

Liaison Committee has said: ‘Machines were invented to make men’s task easier, not to replace him. Men whose muscles ache at the end of a hard, dirty day’s work the Docks are not likely to be the people to complain when mechanisation is For Workers’Control REDUNDANCY IS GOING to hit carried by nuclear submarines — spoken of. It is the employers’ ■ dock and shipping industries in a automatically controlled from load­ insistence on cuts in the manning big way in the next few decades— ing to discharge. scales that holds up progress. We unless dockers and seamen stick Also envisaged are 2,000-ton would welcome its introduction if together and insist modem methods hovercraft — nuclear powered — it were employed to lighten our and mechanisation be used to lighten carrying containerised cargoes at a labours and reduce the working their labours instead of making them speed of 100 knots. These /too will week’. unemployed. be fully automated and the cargoes The employers’ only argument is A survey commissioned by the will be untouched by hand. Docks that they pay for the machinery and MAYBE THE FINAL British Transport Board recently themselves might eventually not be the research into it so they should found that the number of dockers needed as ships are foreseen that reap the benefits of it. To quash this partially submerge in the river mouth the unions should pay for the re­ rjTHE NUR HAS offered to pay part of employed in handling general cargo A the cost of the 4s. 9d. per day pay could be cut by as much as 90 per to allow loaded barges to float off to search and introduction of modem claim for 14,000 guards. The union cent if the industry is fully their destination. machines and methods—as it makes has picked out seven of the 13 points ‘rationalised’. The number of ships Great reductions in the number of the labours of their members easier. listed in the Railway Board’s proposals, seamen are also planned. Capt. This strictly on the basis of which they are prepared to accept. STRAW on the North Atlantic routes could be cut by as much as 70 per cent it A. F. Dickson (Chief Marine absolutely NO REDUNDANCIES. Sidney Greene, NUR General Secre­ added. Superintendent of Shell International tary, claims that this is one of the first the ‘final straw’ will be laid. Yet the dockers are very often declarations on productivity the execu­ In a thesis prepared for the Insti­ Marine Ltd.) has said that 200,000- their own worst enemies in this. As ALL OUT IS THE CALL ton tankers will be common by 1970 tive have made. But it doesn’t go far Car workers at Vauxhall are still] tute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Mr. Tilbury docker Wally Burley said, enough for the Railways Board. D. J. M. Nolan forecast that by the and 300,000-ton ones are already fighting for a better productivity agreeJ at last week’s meeting of Tilbury Last week the NUR executive turned ment, despite the appeal from the NUVfil end of the century cargoes would be being made. The total crews will Liaison Committee: ‘We have, in down by 13 votes to 10 a resolution be 32 men and ‘substantial reduc­ national executive to go back to normajl effect, caused redundancy ourselves calling on the guards to stop work. The working so that talks could resume un-T tions are being made in manning,’ he by our own actions in the dock. We amendment* calling for continued hampered. The talks went on for eight] said, as mobility of labour is have risked our lives by overloading negotiation and ban on second man hours without progress, managemeaf Contact Column achieved. cranes to earn an extra shilling — duties was carried by the same vote. wanted resumption without qualification! Mr. C. F. Cufley (Shipping Econo­ while there have been men in the There is considerable pressure from the That approach is going out of date,F This column exists for mutual aid. mist and Consultant) has pointed out compound without work. branches to call all the guards out, but has been broken a couple of tiifl Douatioos towards cost of typesetting how automation can increase ton­ NUR leaders are standing firm and any recently, and it is not likely to maj will be welcome. ‘While we were claiming that bag­ guards on strike are out ‘unofficial’. The much headway this time. nages to a huge extent while the gage rates were not good enough 1967 AFB Conference. October 7 & 8 increase in wages paid out is minute Manchester area are out, ‘official’ or ‘not\ Vauxhall management stated that 7,8j we proved ourselves wrong by stack­ London-based men terminate their workers would be laid off today (25.9.6| (not 6 as in previous announcement). in proportion. Tonnages can be ing them up high to make the job journey at Crewe so as not to cover the Agenda and details have been sent but some would be personally invitedj increased by as much as 100,000 pay. All through jealousy of one black area. work and if they were prepared to lY to all listed groups; those who have tons with no material increase in Now guess what? There is a Court to established customs and practice ; not received them please write to man getting a bit more than another wages, etc., he said. The daily and our greed for gold.’ of Inquiry on the cards. This should would be allowed in. The oldest gamfl LFA, c/o 42 New Compton Street, operational and management costs establish that the railway-guards have a the book—‘divide and rule*—but ac London, W.C.2. Speaking on the fact that Ray of a 10,000-ton tanker is £250 while Gunter (Minister of Labour) would point but, the 4s. 9d. increase can only ing to the latest report from the d AJVi. Where are you? Attorney. be paid over the next couple of years at line, this is not working out. InT Accommodation: East Coast Teacher for a 500,000-tonner it is only £725 only allow dockers in London and (50 times the tonnage for three times twopence a week. In the meantime of set of circumstances trouble is ha] (m. single) seeks unfurnished apart- Tilbury a guaranteed wage of £16 course the economics will be carried out. for, not only by the management^ ment/accommodation Hull. Any the wages). (elsewhere it’s £15) he said: ‘If all The Board is willing to meet the NUR also by the press. There is ‘no m leads welcomed. Box 65. Dockers have already let this we are going to get is £16 then do Monday, September 25, provided unless workers are punching each ot] North London Situationist Group. If process start by allowing ‘packaged £16 worth of work and no more.’ the ban on second man duties is called up. you are interested in creating the deals’ which employ small numbers off. The guards answer to that could be Pickets that are on the gates at 1 situation and direct action in all This is the answer. The men must of men at certain berths with stacker stick together, do their fair share of get ‘stuffed*, irrespective of what the are asking those selected to go ini spheres, please contact Jean-Paul trucks. There is complete mobility NUR leaders think. continue the work to rule. Toda$ Bouchenoire, 285a Alexandra Park work and no more, and not be The railway men cannot compromise all (Monday) mass meetings at L p Road, London, N.22. of labour as demarcation and tempted—by the high wages for the restrictive practices are completely the time. Guards today, signalmen. or Dunstable and Ellesmere Port, 1 Freeman Syndicate holding a weekend at few—or they will put their mates porters tomorrow. The only way British expected to demand a total strike <2| the Clarion Youth Hostel in Hadlow, relaxed^. out of work and eventually Railways can save is at the expense of Vauxhall’s car workers intend to win.f At one berth, for instance, a gang Kent. Discussion on the possibili­ themselves. M.P. the railwaymen. Some day some time Bill Christopher * ties of setting up a secular Kibbutz. of 16 men are being paid a Saturday, September 30 — social guaranteed wage of £29 10s. each evening (Jug Band and Jazz Band). under these conditions (a total of are in power. In 1963, Mr. Woodcoc® Transport being arranged from £472 in wages). Under the old proudly said that the TUC had move** London Friday night, September 29. system 120 men would have been from Trafalgar Square to the committed Phone 01-574 7461 for details. employed and under equivalent con­ TU GULF WIDENS rooms. Whether what they put forward! Community. Men and women with in these committee rooms has ever been* radical socialist orientation, intro­ ditions would earn about £18 each (£2,160 in wages). In other words, CONTRIBUTOR to F reedom has deal with that he stinks/ carried out, is doubtful. They do not* verted, with reasonable IQ, pagan No, it does not matter very much have any power or influence over the the employers make £1,688, the 16 deemed this year’s TU Congress at sentiments and interest in the group Brighton worthy of an article. Is this which way the vote went. For Mr. Government, but are only consulted . family. SAE to Selene Community, men make £11 10s. and 104 men are our detachment from the struggles of the Woodcock will carry on advising and after, the decisions have been made else -1 Rhydcwmerau, Llandeilo, Cairns, unemployed. working class, or perhaps our secta­ assisting the Government, vetting wage where. Wales. And the employers will get away rianism, or was it that we were just fed claims, advising a little reflation and so The place where the real struggle 1 For Sale. 7 doz. Roneo 750 stencils, with this so long as enough men up with these Congresses and there were on. Whether Congress itself is aware of takes place is not in the leather-uphol-" 1 6/6d. doz., for benefit Press Fund, are willing to work for the extra more important events going on at the this, I don’t know, but the whole thing stered committee rooms or lofty con- 1 Freedom Press. wages and put others out of work. time? I think it was the latter. How­ has become just a way of letting off ference halls, but at the place of work. 1 Smie Person required to organize YCND. ever, although I do not think that the steam. It is here that the Government policies j Some typing required, also imagina­ But these men should realise that this will only benefit them in the Congress was important in itself, the This year’s Congress has shown the will be defeated, if the necessary action J tion and sense of humour. Hard wide gulf that separates this august body is taken. However, as I pointed out I short term. For methods and misconceptions of others about the vot­ work, but rewarding. Apply to ing at Brighton are worth commenting from the working people of this country. above, the majority of trade unionists i YCND, 5 Caledonian Road, London, machines will be improved to cut The membership of trade unions is itself do not play an active part in the affairs * N.l (phone 01-837 9254). on. down manning even further and they Socialists of many varieties are inter­ a small minority of the working popu­ of their unions. If they did, I feel the j Fiot University: Manchester. Any have no guarantee that they won’t lation and within this minority there are State would really be up against it. The j interest in forming one? If so, preting the results of the block votes as be next to go. victories for their own policies. It has divisions. The vast majority of trade majority of activists are usually trying to 1 write to me with any questions or Also the hand of the employer is get this or that member elected to some J ideas. Box 66. generally been, according to The Week, unionists take very little or no interest strengthened by a small labour force a victory for the ‘left’ and they start an in the affairs of their unions. The work position and so a lot of energy is wasted 1 Broadmoor patient soon to be released when it could be directed to more useful ] needs job. Replies to A.R. Reading and a large pod of unemployed — editorial with these optimistic words: is done by a minority of activists, many Group. because the bargaining position of ‘The victories of the left at the TUC of whom have devoted a whole lifetime ends. UNOFFICIAL ORGANISATIONS Former Junkie. Wants job accom­ the men is undermined At the conference this week have transformed to union affairs. Then there is the gulf modation in London. Box 54. berth quoted earlier, for instance, the political situation in t Britain. No that divides many of these from the The growth of unofficial organisation! in industry is a symptom of the gulf that j lust off the Press. Anthology of protest- he caa keep the wages of the 16 longer are the left-wing forces swimming executives of the unions. Like the TUC General Councils, these executives make separates the activists and the leader-! poetry by Flemish, Dutch and men steady even though the cost of against the stream, no longer do oppo­ nents to the Government’s disgraceful the day-to-day decisions, which often ship. The main concern of the activists3 English poets, with many drawings living rises—because if they refuse to and photo-collages. 125 pages, only Vietnam policy and the wage freeze have nothing to do with previous con­ should be to bring more members, n o tj work under his conditions he can stand on the fringe/ But what docs this ference votes. just to support these organisations, but! 10/-. To be had from Freedom easily pick another 16 from the 104 Bookshop or direct from Gerda Ides, so-called victory mean? At the very TRADE UNION COLLABORATION to play an active part in them. This o q Post Box 772, Haarlem, Holland who are scraping a living on best, not much. The gulfs between the leadership, the course is a difficult task, for although (send Int. M.O. in latter case). A unemployment pay. At last year’s TUC there was a size­ activists and the majority who just pay members understand the necessity fo il Dutch anarchist publication. It hardly seems a ‘rationalised’ able minority who voted against the their dues, is no new thing. The process trade unions to go on from this, it is a j Books Hand-bound and Engraved to industry to have 16 men working Government’s wage freeze policies and has been going on, for a long time. The big step and requires a certain political Order. De-luxe Leather Bindings— from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.—and very yet no real opposition was forthcoming divisions, in the past, were perhaps not understanding of the role the unioj from those union leaders. Now the TUC Mosaics — Full-leather Parchment — often working overtime—while 104 so great, but nevertheless, they were leadership plays within the system. is supposed to carry on this new ‘left’ HaJf-leather Bindings. All books are unable to find work. The 16 are there even 100 years ago. As the asso­ While unofficial organisations ar hand-sewn and repaired. Designs policy, but Mr. Woodcock, the General ciation of the trade unions with the growing, more trade unionists will have* in effect supporting the 104— by Secretary, has already made it quite machinery of the State has grown, so the to be involved if a real basis of opposfl^ for Parchments, Mosaics, are origi­ paying for their dole money in nal. For further information contact plain he has no intention of fighting the gulfs within the unions have widened. tion to the policies of the Govemmefl! increased taxes. Government. He said that the real work Mr. J. B. Wagner, c/o American The war accelerated this process. Now, is to be created. The tendency is not Surely each man should earn his of the TUC was done in committees and Consulate, Calle Serrano 75, Madrid with the State concerning itself more and look for leaders, but to be more selL own living — and most would be that in this ‘context, I don’t think it (the more with the running of capitalism, it reliant and this must spread if any revd 6, Spain. vote) matters much one way or another.’ has sought the collaboration of the lutionary movement is to be bojT Accommodation. Wanted two comrades eager of the opportunity. A really rationalised industry would be one After all it is the view of the TUC and trade union leadership and has received Opposition is not enough, but throuj* to share flat (three rooms and kit­ the overwhelming opinion of the trade where the work is shared equally it. these struggles the ability to run ai] chen). Allan Harrison, 285 Alexan­ union leadership that there must be co­ It has been the policy of the General control things for themselves coif dra Park Road, N.22, or phone among the men— by reducing hours operation between them and the Govern­ Council of the TUC to work, by consul­ create a revolutionary movement ned ARC 1239 leaving address. if necessary. ment and so in Mr. Woodcock’s words: tations with ministers, with both Tory sary to abolish the State W you wish to make contact W ns know. As the London Dockers Unofficial ‘You don’t tell a man you want to dd a and Labour Governments, when they P T i p «__ hr FieWom