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Workers' Gontrol at Briant Colour Printing Workers’ Gontrol at Briant Colour Printing SPHERE WAS A TIME, not so going into voluntary liquidation andJoint Chapel Committee. Existing creditors. So they think the whole Wc make all the things they need A long ago, when employers could all the 150 workers (except a dozen orders are being completed andthing stinks of financial manipu­ in the printing and allied trades and close down factories and shove menor so who were required to finish off customers are being asked to pay lation and speculative deals in whichwc must use all our industrial and women on to the scrap-heap some outstanding orders) were out, in cash if they want delivery. All the owners will come out with plenty strength to see that they get the like so many old boots—and the pity finished, sacked, on the dole, with­monies so received are placed in awhile the workers will take their supplies they need. of it was that the workers accepted out a livelihood. special fund. New orders are being places in the dole queues. SLADE (a printing craft union) But these workers are not pre­ has made the ‘work-in’ official and it. But not any more. Times have Ten years ago they might have sought and are now starting to come changed, and a bloody good job too. in. The liquidator has come down pared to go tamely like lambs to the are now paying dispute benefit to got away with it, but times have slaughter; they are determined to their members. It is to be hoped It is ridiculous that working men changed. The FOCs called meetings to the factory but couldn’t get in. and their families should be reduced The posters don’t lie. Briant fight for their livelihoods and thethat the other three Unions soon do of the workers and then told the welfare of their wives and kids. the same. They are going to need to poverty because some rich man director that the dismissal notices Colour Printing is now operating can no longer make a profit out of under Workers’ Control. That’s why they wouldn’t take the money and it is up to all of us to were not accepted. From now on dismissal notices, and that’s why see that they get it. There arc wives their labours. If an employer goes the factory would be run by the There is complete unity among into ‘liquidation’ he has abandoned the members of all the unions in­ they are now in complete control of and families to be fed while all this workers themselves, and. within a this beautifully built and equipped is going on. They are asking for his so-called right of ownership and few hours it was done. Work was volved—NATSOPA. SLADE, NGA the workers have every natural right and SOGAT—and a leaflet was modern printing factory in Old Kentorders and wc can surely all use our continued without an employer and influence to see that they get them. in the world to take over and carryunder Workers’ Control. immediately issued informing the Road. on production under their own con­ rest of the printing trade what was I wouldn’t say that they are all This factory is functioning under trol producing things that people Posters appeared at the doors and happening, asking for support, and raving revolutionaries. They arc notWorkers’ Control and all Trade need. in the windows stating that ‘This calling a meeting outside the factory fighting to uphold some political Unions should place their print Workers haven't yet gone this far. Factory Is Not For Sale’ and is last Friday. philosophy or some great ideology. orders with it right away. but already at UCS on Clydebank, ‘Now Under Workers’ Control’.A I myself went to the meeting (as They are much better than that. Speaking to the meeting last at Piesseys, at Fisher-Bendix, and workers’ management committee a representative from my own They are men and women who haveFriday, Bill Freeman, the popular at the women’s leather factory in was elected and got down to arrang­Chapel in Fleet Street) and I was had the guts to stand up to an FOC of the NATSOPA members at Fakenham, they have refused to be ing the business of work rosters, able to talk to a lot of the Briant employer and refused to be kicked Briant Colour, had this to say: ‘A tossed on to the dole. ‘Work-ins’ looking after safety, canteen faci­ Colour lads. They are rightly scep­ in the teeth. They just don’t think long time ago all the land we are and occupation of factories havelities, etc. A day and night guardtical about the firm being skint. that anyone has some god-givenstanding on was owned by ourselves now become an accepted part of the was posted on the factory gate and After all, they made a handsome right to toss them out of a job and and we lived off it. Then some rich industrial struggle. And now it hasnobody got in or out without their profit of £665,000 last year and there they are determined to resist it with men came along and took it off us happened in the printing industry. permission. is plenty of work in the plant. all their strength. and made us go to work for them. On Wednesday. June 21. the The Works Director holed him­ The workers know that Briant It is possible that the employer What we have done today is to take managing director of Briant Colour self up in his office and had his foodColour came under new ownership will change his tune and keep the it back!’ The statement got a big Printing in Old Kent Road. Southsent up in a bucket on a rope last year and they also know that factory running, or perhaps some cheer—especially from us older wor­ London, sent for the FOCs (shop from the main road—but the shop the new owners have interests inother employer will step in and buy kers who have been longing for this stewards) and calmly informed themmanagers and supervision carried onother printing firms as well as a it. But, on the other hand, it is sort of thing for donkey’s years. that as of that moment the firm was working under the direction of thefinancial interest in one of the mainequally possible that none of this But what Bill Freeman said is a will happen and instead the workers simple truth we all know in our will have to make the attempt to hearts is right. A group of very take the firm into their own owner­ courageous workers have taken back ship (as the women did in the Faken­what rightfully belongs to them— ham leather factory) and run it as a the land, the factory and the tools co-operative without anyone making by which they earn their living. A a profit out of their labours. Time section of the employing class who will tell, but 1 have the feeling that for centuries have lived on the backs these men and women will do justof working people have been well 4»pHE GREAT MAJORITY of wrong- course, an accepted cliche that punish­ accused himself elects to go to trial that, if they have to, in defence ofand truly knocked in the Old Kent doers cannot be deterred because ment is, in the majority of cases, no by jury). If, the accused is prepared their livelihoods. Road. If we all make the effort and their actions are motivated by sponta­ deterrent (even Mr. Mark can accept to risk the possibility of a longer sen­ Meanwhile there can be nothing use our strength outside to support neity, weakness, stupidity or other this). It is usually stated that the tence by pleading ‘not guilty’ in the but praise for this gallant little the lads and lassesinside we may yet characteristics rather than by deliberate certainty of punishment would lessen first place and in the second place, band of printworkers who have re­manage to keep it that way. and planned wrongdoing. The Englishthe crime-rate. This has been common asking to be tried by a jury he is ob­ fused to be pushed around by a Send your messages of support judicial system . is. in reality effective currency for some time. Mr. Mark viously more convinced of his ownprofit-hungry bunch of employers. and your money and your print only for dealing with the compliant— quotes the Home Office Criminal Sta­ innocence, than the police are, whatever the true sense of the word is! They are an example to all of us, orders to: Tony Austin. Treasurer, the weak, the stupid, the illiterate and the tistics that ‘a burglar stands only a and we must make sure that they spontaneous wrongdoers who comprise one out of three chance of being caught * * * Joint Chapels Fund, Briant Colour the vast majority of cases/ Who said in the provinces and a one out of five The National Council for Civil Liber­ don’t fail for want of our support. Printing, 651 Old Kent Road, Lon­ this? It sounds on the face of it, a chance in London. For robbery the ties, in a memorandum onCivil Liberties They may well be faced with prac­ don, S.E.15. continuation of the anarchist anthology' chances would be slightly better than and the Judges' Rules, quotes Mr. Mark tical difficulties—especially in the J ohn L a w ren ce , of self-justification on law and order one out of two in the provinces andin 1965 as suggesting that accused matter of supplies of ink, paper, etc.
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