Protectors of Low and Older TYOMINICAN REPUBLIC— Bosch and sent him into exile. According to theSunday Times Anarchist Weekly# ^ Where is that? One of the According to Wessin, Bosch was (9.5.65), a Henry Brandon reporting banana countries who hffve revoluCommunist. Juan Bosch was elected from Washington states: ‘Some MAY 15 1965 Vol. 26 No. 15 tions every week. People die in thePresident in the December of 1962. token withdrawal of American fighting, no matter they will His party, the Dominican RevoluMarines will be ordered as soon as probably die of malnutrition ortionary Party, won 62 per cent ofthe first contingents of police or disease anyway. the vote in the first elections since troops from other Latin American Dominica has always been a 1920. From the very beginning States arrive’. happy stamping ground for dictators. Bosch fought a losing battle against Reading between the lines this Haiti was in occupation for 20 years the combined forces of the Church, could mean that a large force of Black Anarcliy or more, which was one of the mostthe Press, the Army and entrenched American troops will stay to ensure brutal and repressive periods in land interests owned by Trujillo’s that Caamano’s government does Dominica’s tormented history. Inthugs. Bosch’s policy was one not of take office. Of course this 1916 America sent in the marines liberal reform, obviously too liberalcannot be counted as interference to restorelaw and order. They for Wessin and the forces ofin the ihtemal affairs of another stayed eight years, created a national reaction. country, just plain bloody aggres Tomorrow? police force, which spewed up the After Bosch was ousted, a civilian sion. dictator Trujillo. In 1930 he rigged triumvirate took over led by ReidWhere does the British Govern TYURING the last year four elections going relations with all the three high the elections and stayed in office forCalbral. This set-up was fully ment stand? Lying quietly at •*-' in countries of Southern Africa have commission territories.’ 31 years. backed by Wessin, but not by the Johnson’sbenevolent heel. Johnson has dispensed with the lead, the taken place, all of which must underline If we take an over-all look at Basuto The ‘Benefactor of the Father- people of Dominica. On April 24, the futility of advocating the ballot-box land, Bechuanaland and Swaziland we land’ looked after his jpeople with 1965, the uprising began in an effort British Government is sufficiently as the salvation for the oppressed African will see that pro-South African parties hospitals, roads and some education. to restore Bosch to the Presidency. obedient to ‘come to heel’. people in the area. are in power in all three countries as Trujillo also looked after Trujillo Reid resigned and went into hiding, B il l C h r ist o ph er . Nearly a year ago now, Swaziland held they head for independence. Only in to the tune of $800 million at theGeneral Wessin took over as the a general election for the first time in Basutoland is the Pan-Africanist support counter-revolutionary leader of a the 61 years of British rule there. A expense of 1,000 political refugees strong. The question is whether political whom he put to death in police pro-Wessin junta. pro-South African alliance of African independence for these three territories ‘traditionalists’ and white farmers was means economic independence. Oliver cells. In 1937 he murdered 15,000 MARINES MOVE IN elected to power. In the first meeting of Walker writing of the three countries in Haitian squatters. MARINES the Swaziland Legislative Council the Funny no intervention then from Bitter fighting took place, and on his book Kaffirs are Livelier remarks Wednesday, April 28, 405 US Paramount Chief’s representative de that: ‘Except for Swaziland, each is US to restorelaw and order. The clared his desire for independence from utterly dependent on South Africa as a massacre of 15,000 people constitutes marines landed in Dominica to proNOT KILLERS Britain as soon as possible, whilst a market for its labour and its cattle. law and order. In 1961 Trujillo tect American property and lives. motion was debated in which the pro- Swaziland has mineral resources of was assassinated and a seven man On Saturday, May 8, the 82nd US T IBERALS IN THE United States, Government mover said Swaziland would asbestos and iron ore, now being de Airborne went into actionagainst these days, are in the unenviable not interfere with South Africa’s domestic civilian Council of State was in veloped, which could ensure a greater stalled. the rebels, US forces lost two men, position of apologizing for the most affairs. measure of detachment. But Basutoland twelve wounded, so 2,000 more US Early this year the first general election unpopular war in which this country is a barren rock in the heart of South BOSCH FOUGHT A LOSING troops were sent in bringing the total was ever embroiled. Their humiliat under universal suffrage took place in Africa, accustomed to hiring its man BATTLE Bechuanaland and Seretse Khama be to 7,000 men to protectAmerican ing predicament of course follows power to the Rand gold mines, to farmers The Dominican military has property and lives. came the Prime Minister with a very and to secondary industry. And Bechu logically from their irrational belief large majority. His party stands for a always been the military and poli 7,000 men are a lot of troops that to the State produces Order, Pros analand is good only for ranching and tical power behind^;! Dominica’s ‘good neighbour’ policy towards South game reserves. Any one of them could protect property even by American perity, and, most strangely of all Africa. Dr. Verwoerd sent his personal be occupied tomorrow without fuss by ^Thrones’. The boss at the moment standards. In an attempt to justify the supposed state-born qualities, congratulations to Seretse Khama and a battalion of parachute troops from is General Wessin y Wessin. A her actions a meeting of theMorality. Liberals pathetically IKied a ban on him visiting South Africa. South Africa. Britain is agt going tp, devout .Catholic with ^.pathological Organisation of American States cling to the notion that the State The Financial Times (5.3.65) saw this as allow them to become rallying points hatred of’COmmitirtliuywhich means was' called. Usually OAS obey their an attempt to wean Bechuanaland away somehow insures a higher level of for an attack on South Africa.’ any shade of leftistihinking). InAmerican master, sometimes reluc public morality than that which from British influence towards the Re It is little wonder that the editor of 1963 Wessin staged ajfoloodless coup public. If one casts one’s mind back to tantly, but eventually, after economic would obtain without the State and Die Burger, the main pro-Govemment against the elected/President Juan pressure, they do. This time the 1950, when the Labour Government paper in South Africa, can write (Sunday its agencies of control. stopped Seretse Khama returning to join Times, 2.5.65): ‘Bechuanaland, Basuto official representatives of twenty Many good-hearted and kind his white wife in Bechuanaland, it will land and Swaziland are in effect British American States have condemned people persistently refuse to accept be appreciated that Dr. Verwoerd has a Bantustans, and Britain finds nothing in or deplored US action in Dominica. the fact that the State produces task of some ease on his hands. In congruous about granting political inde ANARCHIST FRINGE The US obtained a bare two-thirds poverty and war. The subsequent 1950 Seretse Khama said: ‘I am not to pendence to their underdeveloped majority but only on the agreement by-product of both is violence and go home for five years. I told Gordon peoples.’ Even Llewellyn Chanter that the unilateral US presence in Walker (then Secretary of State for TO BATH FESTIVAL immorality. The womb of the State writing in the Daily Telegraph (21.4.65) the Dominican Republic be replaced is perpetually pregnant with violence. Commonwealth Relations) I thought I admitted: ‘One can only experience SUMMER CAME PLANNED had been tricked. They invited me to by an inter-American force under Violence is all that the State can feelings of deepest shame when faced by unified control. come, and now they say I am excluded the abysmal degree of illiteracy and A NARCHISTS IN BRISTOL and Bath breed; its ‘Order’ is but the after from the territory. I only thought those ignorance prevalent in all three territories, have joined the committee for the President Johnson has now birth of its violence. things were supposed to happen in notably in Bechuanaland and Swaziland. first Bath Festival Fringe, the ‘A’ Group. publicly admitted that the main The latest large scale American Russia. I said it was a dirty trick.’ In the former 250 primary and secondary The Festival, which is from June 9 to 20, reason for 21,800 troops in theadventure in South Vietnam offers (Doubtless the voters of Smethwick and schools, all under-staffed, are trying to is the West Country’s cultural focus, and Dominican Republic is the danger proof of this anarchist principle Leyton had this skeleton in Gordon- cope with 63,000 children, while another ‘A’ Group are determined to widen the of a Communist take-over.lik e every day. But the public is not Walker’s cupboard well in mind when 10,000 a year are clamouring to get in. range of activities presented. During the Arbenz of Guatemala, the t/S they voted against him in recent months!) often made aware of this as it was This is hardly a basis for independence.’ evenings there will be jazz, folksong, engineered the overthrow. Like recently by an Associated Press re The third election in a British protec The present writer has seen terrible poetry, cabaret, and films, and it is hoped torate was very recently in Basutoland, a British Guiana, American influence lease headed: ‘Marine Makes His poverty in the lovely country of Swazi that nationally known artists will appear. helped overthrow Jagan by economic country surrounded by South Africa. land where illness is generally on the There will be films: in the Octogon. First Kill’. The Marine depicted in Here the country was practically equally increase instead of being sensibly com On June 13 at 3.30 p.m. Spanish comrades boycott. this story is a mere 19-year-old, who divided between the pro-South African bated. One only had to glance at the on June 13 at 3.30 p.m. Spanish comrades As usual the saviours of western joined the Marines last year after National Party of ‘traditionalists’ and the misery and poverty in a Swaziland town will be dancing flamenco at the Band democracy have deliberately gotgraduating from high school. The Pan Africanist Congress Party. The ship, to appreciate the motive behind stand in Victoria Park. There will be ‘their wires crossed’. story quotes the Marine as saying that National Party's overall majority is only this treatment. Neither Britain nor an open-air exhibition of paintings The situation in the Dominican he ‘felt kind of sorry’ for the lifeless one. South Africa, for financial reasons, want throughout the Festival along the river Republic is critical. Colonel body stretched out before him of an Clyde Sanger writing in the Guardian strong independent countries near to bank. (5.5.65) asserts: ‘Now that the Pan Afri Caamano elected provisional presiunarmed Vietnamese villager he had South Africa. In addition a Libertarian Summer dent of the Dominica Legislature just shot in the back. can Congress Party has been defeated The fourth election in Southern Africa, Camp will be held from June 9-20 on a South Africa expects to establish easy- happily boycotted by the African people, farm just outside Bath, to coincide with (Bosch supporter) will have nothing A sergeant is also quoted in the in Rhodesia returned Mr. Smith’s the Festival. It is hoped that as many to do with the new Junta which same story as follows: ‘This is a Rhodesian Front Party with a large comrades as possible will come down for includes two generals and three tough war, but don’t think we are majority. Writing editorially on the day the Camp, and support the fringe. Ac civilians. Caamano claims his killers. We are Marines.’ the electors went to the polls in commodation for the camp will be under Government is capable of con B.M. Rhodesia, the Dally Telegraph stated: canvas, but is strictly limited, so com trolling the country. A n A merican C orrespondent . ‘It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that rades intending to come should write im Mr. Smith's tactics are to manoeuvre the mediately to Adam Nicholson, c/o 39 ANARCHY 51 Rhodesian whites into a position where Freemantle Road, Redland, Bristol 6. there seems to be no escape between Poets, singers, etc., will be welcome, defying Britain, the Commonwealth and and accommodation will be arrungod VERY SORRY, BUT. moat of the world, or surrendering to where necessary. It Is hoped to make \I /E regret to have to announce amounted to £76, and this year DISCUSSES black anarchy tomorrow.’ this a genuinely spontaneous entertain ” some increases in subscription additional typesetting costs have It could be however that Mr. Smith ment, and anyone with talent may per rates. to be added to this, so the current has created a position where 'black form. Artists wishing to enter paintings 1. To cover increased postage rates figure is £80. anarchy' is the only cry that the African (for sale —25% commission to ‘A’ coming into force May 17, inland people of Rhodesia will listen to. It Group) should send them, plus 2/6d. We are not at present putting up The Blues might surprise him if the African people handling fee, to 7 Seville Row, Bath, subs, will be from June 1, 1965: did not only understand the word anarchy anywhen after May 2fi. with details of Combined Freedom /A narchy the price of the paper but we shall as a synonym of chaos. It is becoming prices, whether negotiable, etc. Insurance subscription £2 2s. Od. per year have to do so at the end of the increasingly obvious that the solution to must be by artists, and unsold paintings F reedom only £1 2s. 6d. per year year unless sales go up. Pop Jazz R’n’B the problems of South and Central Africa must be collected within two weeks of A narchy only £1 6s. Od. per year To encourage new subscriptions is not political independence, but econo the Festival ending. Anyone wanting 2. Apart from this increase, costs we are introducing immediately an mic independence. This, in turn, means additional information on the Festival have risen and we have known introductory Gift Subscription at ownership and control of the land and Fringe itself should write to the Bristol for some time that the figure reduced rate. Send us 5/- and the ANARCHY is Published by industry by the people who will rightfully address. Further details will be published name of a friend you think might be inherit it. To the politically aware this shown in weekly financial state Freedom Press at 2s. later. interested and we will send both on the first Saturday of every monthis best described as black anarchy Film-makers can show their own (16 as Expenses (£70) falls short of tomorrow. m.m.) films. Apply Marcel Steiner at present-day costs; even on lastF reedom and A narchy for two I.W. above address. year’s figures the expenses months. Long Live Peggy Duff day. It was humorously suggested in F reedom recently that Peggy should be T IS NOT Peggy Duff alone whom we given a cabinet seat with the job of I must thank, for she has able supporters, controlling dissident elements. But, as B oot! but more than any other well-known Labour is in power, the dissident ele OH 1HHI H I figure she is to be thanked for the part ments cannot be controlled as when the M l she is playing in the extension of the Tories were in the saddle. A year ago 'operation so that when the Peggy Duffa NEW BOOKS anarchist movement of this country. there was the cry that radical action Likewise, I would suggest that people who have the spirit, the sense, and the of this world outrage common sense to The Thief’s Journal Jean Genet 30/— I know that some other comrades will should be played down as it would harm not share my enthusiasm for her. Jack the Labour Party’s chances to oust the human worth to make spontaneous the point of protest, that protest shall be Tonka and Other Stories demonstrations will make a few hot directed into constructive channels. But Robert Musil 25/- Stevenson, writing in Peace News, com Tories, I am sure that many of the ments that the large number of people young people who now crowd behind headed and muddled mistakes in their we were all ‘absolute beginners’ once, and The Mufti and the Fuehrer the waving of red-and-black flags in the J. B. Schechtman 42/- who have been projected into the arms anarchist banners were working in the time. of the anarchists, so to speak—‘are not cause of the Labour Party last autumn. But let it not be suggested that they street is an activity which has my full, Industry and People: Cars unqualified support. More power to their Graham Turner 5/- anarchists though we hope that one day But now what are they to do? wait until they’ve done their homework they will become so’. Possibly Jack The Communist Party, like the Catholic on Godwin, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Mala- elbows! Murder of the Prime Minister: London, N . Tony Gibson . Spencer Perceval Laurence Clark 18/- Stevenson knows what he is talking Church, is always there and is still the testa, etc., before they have a bash at Patterns of Sexual Behaviour about, but I would be chary of deciding most virulent menace on the Left; but civil riot and commotion! What non C. S. Ford and F. A. Beach 30/- that anyone was not an anarchist 'solely somehow it has never quite recovered sense is this? We normally have a (paper-back) 15/- on the grounds that he acted like a from the post-Stalinist debacle, even punch-up with the boss first and then Hairy Cretins P Reach to the Stars damned fool on a certain occasion. As though those now of YCL age are too theorize about the nature of society Calder Willingham 21/— I see it, we have a totally new phe young to have known the worst at first after: we take our first girl behind a Dear Friend, nomenon appearing in this country, a hand. There are the handful of mori hedge in feverish haste, and then we Having, like many, gone through CND phenomenon which would have utterly bund little political parties, each avid for learn all about the theory of sexual and pacifism to anarchism, I have re SECONDHAND amazed the older anarchists of a few new membership, but they are mostly a freedom in learned books. All this I cently found myself reluctant to accept Jane Addams of Hull House 1860-1935, years ago, a thousand or so people bureaucracy without a rank and file, write in the full knowledge that-riot and even this label. If I regard the individual Margaret Tims 5/-; Are Workers walking through the streets of London having nothing to offer new members commotion are not anarchism, and that as of supreme value I can identify myself Human?, Gordon Rattray Taylor 6/-; .with anarchist banners, and publifcly except the honour and glory of joining blowing raspberries at Peggy Duff does with no group as this means I cease to A Preface to Morals. Walter Lippmann reviling figures of ' the semi-pacifist the bureaucracy. And what have the not constitute a reasoned expose of the identify myself or concern myself with 3/-; The Life and Letters of Robert Labour Party like Peggy Duff! Let us anarchists to offer? fallacy of Labour Party politics. I know those individuals outside the group as Ingersoll, 10/-; Thomas Paine’s Political not minimise the importance of such ah ‘We are opposed to spontaneous too, that as movements grow in breadth much as I do with those within. Out of Writings (a selection), 5/-; The Reforma historical event in Britain. demonstrations by people who don’t have they can become shallower in depth, but concern with truthfulness I can ally my tion, Archibald Robertson 7/6; Housing Having said, ‘Long live Peggy Duff’, let the background of anarchist theory and not as futile, I suggest, as those tiny self to no -ism. And while I reject and the State 1919-1944, Marian Bowley me hastily dissociate myself from the rational thinking to make a success of organizations which mean nothing out authority I realise the existence of the 5/-; On the Hill, Victor Chapin 4/-; revolutionary doctrine of what may be them’. , side the initiated few. state reflects the attitude of many, and Homer Lane, W. David Wills 15/—; The called ‘provocatism’. I do not welcome This from J. Stevenson and P. Turner If I criticise Stevenson and Turner for so to think one can cast it down, or con Red Spider Web, Bernard Newman 4/-; oppression so that its antithesis will in Peace News! All people who write, their attitude in this matter, I do so fully vince governments to act morally as they Man of Terror—Dzherzhynski, Bernard result from it. But Peggy Duff is an all write a deal of nonsense at one time or acknowledging the validity of their are governed principally by expediency, Bromage 5/-; Kings, Lords and Gentle too real living phenomenon, and her another, and I suggest this be credited general concern that there shall be a by marching, sitting or shoving under red- men, Karl Heinz Abshagen 6/-; Seven public antics are a real education for to ■ the peck of dirt ' which these two movement of discussion, education and and-black banners, though rather roman Women Against the World, Margaret the uncommitted young people of to writers must swallow before they die. organization in anarchism, actively in tic is a bit potty. However, this Easter Goldsmith 6/6; Ambassador on Special Monday my reluctance was greatly in Mission, Sir Samuel Hoare 5/6; Russia creased by those on the CND march who did accept the label by marching with and Democracy, G. De Wesselitsky 4/-; Collage but for accepting Elizabeth the anarchist contingent. I know it’s a The Peace Ballot: The Official History, Lablache’s bleak and foreboding cruci great thrill to play at being dead revolu Dame Adelaide Livingstone 4/6; Party fixion darkly flowering within a fluid tionary by mucking the coppers about, Politics in the West Indies, C. L. R. pool of shadows, for here is the counter and a mass of blue probably makes me James 5/-; Croce as Shakespearean Critic, point to Bratby’s shallow rubbish. Yet J. M. Robertson 3/-; The Young Lag, ROUND THE GALLERIES see black-and-red as much as anyone else. there is work here that is worthy of But what, for Christ’s sake, do the clots Sir Leo Page 5/-; Free Expression in your attention in Claude Harrison’s Toby, A ND AS I was saying, it is fashionable, comic greeting card his painting splays who start marching backwards, push Industry, James J. Gillespie 4/-; The a beautiful portrait of a child of a dying and rightly so, to mock the yearly across its conquered wall space as a through police cordons and burn Union Spirit and Structure of German Fascism class with its evocation of Connolly’s (1937), Robert A. Brady 4/-; My Name is Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, yet pathetic and futile gesture on the part of Jacks want to achieve by this? Does thirties. James Neal’s two small paint- too much of the laughter is soured by the Royal Academy to prove that they this action have any point at all? At the Million: the Experiences of an English Sir Charles Wheeler, KCVO, CBE, PRA, rejection and by the disappointment that are now part of the scene and all they Committee of 100 demonstration at Great woman in Poland (1940), 5/-; The New ings that catch in miniature the parochial we are not among the strutting or blush have Succeeded in doing is to participate Smith Street last Easter, and that at World Order, H. G. Wells (1940) 5/-; world within the fringe of an industrial Misfit, CapL J. R. White 7/6; Women and ing daubers having their brief and mean in providing a poster for the film ‘The Downing Street this year, a load of ingless moment of public acclaim. 1,613 Greatest Story Ever Tqld’, for each can township. Hepple’s portrait of the Queen, the Revolution, Ethel Mannin 6/-. churned out to the order of the Royal frenzied twits shouted and pushed, and works on public exhibition form a ratbag match the other in banality and bad said, ‘Let’s go to the Houses of Parlia of talent and minor competence that taste. Marines, shows Liz with a humanity and a lack of practiced grace that adds ment!’ To blow it up? And as if harm no one by its public exposure The Academy attempted to prove to power resided there, and not in Whitehall before they begin their swift crawl to the an indifferent public that the world of a touch of reality in this world of painted Freedom Bookshop artifice. But within this painting circus where we were this year. The wholey limbo of some private wall within some experimental art, of the avant garde and thing just seemed*"like “Some- soft o il (Open 2 p.m.—5.30 pan. daily; the off -beat.- would -be—accepted-within there are’ two paintings that by ’’their private house. What demands and de- anarchoid game. The participants looked 10 IJD.—1 pan. Thursdays; serve'sourmockeryisthetactfhhtthri their walls and^they' threw open their very craftsmanship will outlive these tatty 10 a-m.—5 p.m. Saturdays). massive doors and ho one came in. walls. in the main like professional revolution occasion is used as a reason for a public aries who probably couldn’t actually display by the Art Establishment and There were no fl^es/burning in the dis Father Vincent. McNab by the late live anarchistically. 17a MAXWELL ROAD the whole of the armament of these pea tant hills, no rebels/crouching wild eyed James Gunn is a painter’s prayer to the This Easter Monday Peter Cadogan, cock feathered roosters is thrown into and ready to rush the turnstiles, no future that we did not fail the creative FULHAM 8W6 Tel: REN 3736 after making a speech of far more im this battle from the public dinner, the genius pleading for admission while his world. press and TV coverage, the funny hats, sweating wifejstaggered along Cork Street Here is Gunn’s justification for this pact and interest than the ones at the tail coats, the portrait of the Queen beneath the weight of a latter day whole shabby farce with his full length Trafalgar Square, ' which, apart from and the Picture of the Year. It is all Leonardo, only Bratby with his comic portrait of this old man bearing the references to Vietnam, were identical to FREEDOM PRESS here with Anderson’s portrait of the strip trotting to thejwall of honour while weight of his office and his cloth, both those at all the Easter rallies I’ve been Queen in a second rate Annigoni style hastily unrolled the red carpet. It took with a practiced ease and humility. From to, passed round a loud-hailer for people of magazine art. Inshaw’s 74976 pop art no courage on the'part of the Hanging the twisted boots and up through the to put their points of view on possible PUBLICATIONS canvas hanging above the line like a Committee to accept this work, for heavy cloak to the sly clerk’s face, Gunn courses of action. We even had an Irish SELECTIONS FROM ‘FREEDOM’ grey flag of surrender and the gutless Bratby as author, painter and public has added another character to people Communist and a Metropolitan Police Vol 2 1952: Postscript to Posterity abstract stillborn within the Kasmin personality, has long ago seeped into the stage of our artificial memories. Here Officer speaking. Only, most of the Vol 3 1953: Colonialism on Trial Bond Street Gallery still fulfilling their the public imagery, but it would have is an old man who can take his place times the latter opened his mouth—to Vol 4 1954: Living on a Volcano predetermined role of with-it wallpaper. required, courage on the part of the within the stream of Chaucer’s pilgrims, inform us we were in contravention of Vol 5 1955: The Immoral Moralists And the painting of the year is here with Academy to have rejected this work and strut the stage to mock Shakespeare’s the Commissioner’s instructions (yet only Vol 6 1956: Oil and Troubled Waters this was the courage that they lacked for ten were arrested and charged)—he was Vol 7 1957: Year One—Sputnik Era John Bratby’s (ARA) ‘Golgotha’ or ‘Eloi, drolls or tread the streets of Dickens’ Eloi, Lama Sabachthani’. these drear little men could no more fly grotesques, a three-dimensional man drowned in a hail of boos. So much for Vol 8 1958: Socialism in a Wheelchair anarchist respect for freedom of speech. Vol 9 1959: Print, Press & Public Bratby has now dived, feet first, into in the face of public pressure by reject within this two-dimensional world of the Vol 10 1960: The Tragedy of Africa the acceptance world and loving every ing a Bratby than they would have had arts, and there above the line is Jan ! » ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Vol II 1961: The People in the Street minute and here is his card of acceptance. the courage to reject five of the six Eversen’s ‘Bread’, lifeless in itself yet a Vol 12 1962: Pilkington v. Beeching Dominating by painted area, though not Churchill paintings that waste wall space. magnificent work within this mausoleum STUART CHRISTIE STILL HAS Each volume: paper 7/6 cloth 10/6 by talent, is Bratby’s version of the Yet if one can admire the Academy it is and now back to the cellar. 1,005 WEEKS TO DO, The paper edition of the Selections is crucifixion. 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Printed by Express Primers. London, E.I. Published by Freedom Press. I7s Maxwell Road, London. S.W.#. Ford Workers Want Hours Cut PRODUCTION at the Ford Motor other workers at the plant had tomanagement-union carve-up. In the plant at Halewood, near Liverbe laid off and a company spokesmeantime the TGWU had got a foot pool, came to a halt this week, man said that 1,000 cars a day were in the door. MAY 15 1965 Vol. 26 No. 15 when 500 press-shopmen came out being lost which were worth about What becpmes of the national on unofficial strike. The men want £500,000. level meeting remains to be seen. their half-hour lunch break to be In the meantime the men are under way, and they would also and organise accordingly. Even if counted as part of the normal work UNION AGREEMENT AT returning to work, butif this cut seek union support. Surely, from no improvement is gained this time shift. This would mean a 30 in hours could be gained it would REDUCED RATES previous experience, this is the last by rank and file action, at least the minutes cut in the working day, represent quite a substantial im Unlike Ford’s plant at Dagenham, thing that the Ford workers want. initiative and control rests with the making it 7$- hours. provement for them. It is not a where the employees are split up matter of a ‘few bob’ which would The 17 militants sacked two years people involved, instead of with This claim has been before the into 22 unions, there are only three disappear within a very short time ago at Dagenham are enough tothose whose interest essentially lies management for somemonths. It at Halewood. In fact, before thein the price increases, but will give show that this line of approach leads with the management. For too long, is not something that has been plant opened up the ABU and the men more time to themselves. nowhere. union leaders and the Ford manage sprung on them, but has gone NUGMW had already made an A cut in hours cannot be swallowed Since the war the unions have not ment have combined to smash through the joint Procedure Agree agreement with Fords for the sole up but remains permanent. even got as far as supporting strikes, militancy and shop floor organisa ment. The ‘Procedure* has now, at rights to membership. This was not let alone gaining anything by such tion. Maybe a start can be made long last reached ‘national level* just another race in the membership LEARN FROM THE VP action. If this dispute is to be won, at Halewood on a different track, and next week district officials will stakes, for with it came an agree Although this show of militancy it will be won by the men them which will by-pass the union attend the meeting of the three ment to employ members at wage is a welcome sign thatshop floor selves. Let us hope that the officials, building and relying instead involved, the Transport and unions rates below those at other Ford organisation is again on the mend, stewards and the men realise this, on rank and file organisation.P.T. General Workers Union, the Amal plants. The factory opened with I feel we must nevertheless criticise gamated Engineering Union and the these rates in operation, but it certain aspects of it. When the men National Union of General and wasn’t long before the men decided decided to return to work, they said Municipal Workers. they were not having it, so they they would come out again the next Of course the dispute meant that banned overtime and defeated the week if negotiations had not gotAEU NIGHT SHIFT THE WORKERS’ 11 ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM NEXT STEP POLICY DEFEATED THE PATTERN OF SYNDICALISM N JULY, engineering workers switch day night shift is a short one. However, workers and of society can be met. To-day, when workers go I to a 40-hour week instead of the at many factories, workers have preferred on strike, they form a strike committee, which is functional and Q O Car 1 have said little about the actual structure of present 42 hours. The magical 40 hours to go to bed instead of working and in temporary. When the function—of organising the strike—is has at last been reached even though it fact there has been organised absenteeism Syndicalism. I have deliberately left this until now in order completed, the strike committee dissolves,perhaps to re-form, has been the official policy of the Amal in some factories on the Friday night that all the basic ideas and attitudes could be presented first. with different individuals, when next the need arises. This gamated Engineering Union since before shift in an attempt to force the manage When these are dear, it is possible to discuss further without gives experience to the widest possible number of workers and the First World War. ment to change the arrangement of hours. being misunderstood. The long struggle for the 8-hour day, prevents too much influence passing intothe hands of a few. UP TO THE BLOKES ON THE JOB Although Anarcho-Syndicalism aims at the organisation of all As the functions the workers take overincrease, however, five days a week, is over, but since those One speaker at the conference at the workers in industry, it does not do so in terms of the mass more permanent committees may become necessary, but the far-off days, when this was but a dream to the exclusion of the individual. The socialist, totalitarian, which was expected to come true much Blackpool said that men did not think |— | federalist nature ofthe Syndicates, and the care that must be it was worth travelling 30 miles, as some conception of the collectivity being more important than the earlier, shift working has been introduced taken to ensure controlfrom the Jwt'ppi upall the time to a great extent. Nowadays costly new did, just for a few hours. Apparently individuals composing it, of the majority having the right to prevent any kind of leadership developing. machines are introduced only if they Sir William Carron, the president of the override the minority, have nothing in common with the This form of organisation may be thought tjb be complicated, can be operated almost round the clock. AEU, said after the vote went against Anarchist conoept of voluntary co-operation. but in fact it is not. The honeycomb is notinore complicated Night work, at the best of times, is a them, ‘God help usP This begins with the individual worker, at his place of work, a design that the spider’s web, but in the fi/st all the cells are thing which is preferred only by a very Night work, in my opinion, should be coming together with his fellows to organise the job in hand. of equal importance and fit into each other, in the second few. This was shown at a meeting last done only when it is really necessary. And the smaller the unit of co-operation can be, the greater control is maintained from the centre. Capitalism and week of the national committee of the Every effort should be made to cut the will be the control live workers have over it. Remember we are governments have created complications where they need not AEU in Blackpool. hours on night shift. As to how these not concerned with building coffin clubs or any organisation The official policy of the union has hours should be worked, can one lay exist because both are artificial complications themselves. been one of an 8-hour day or shift, but down any hard and fast rules? Control divorced from the work concerned* but with an organisation Where common interest lies in the fulfilment of common need, the majority of speakers said that with a by the men concerned should be the aim. through which production can be administered. co-ordination can be a simple matter. 40-hour week, men would prefer a fpur- They can thrash It out amongst them The firs unit of organisation, then, should be the works The creation of industrial syndicates rather than craft unions, night week of 10 hours a night. This selves at shop floor level, then putting it council. (When I write 'works', incidentally, I use it as a would itself be a simplifying measure, as I havealready pointed would leave a long week-end. The AEU to the management. Autonomy is needed general term In various industries the words mine, depot, yard, out, but since it is presumptuous to forecastexactly how national committee wants the night shift for the workers* organisation in the shop station, (arm. mill, ship, dock, factory, etc., may be the workers will organise when they once begin creatingsyndicates, to be four nights of 8 hours and the fifth engineering factories, so that they can exact term.) This council would consist of delegates chosen I will not do more than indicate how I think they wouldform. one of 4 hours. (Night shift, in actual work out what is best for themselves, by the workers to do whatever organisational work is necessary The most basic industry ofall is agriculture. Without food fact, work less hours because of this type instead of having to accept what Cferron for the smooth running of the works. If the productive unit of shift) and the employers think is best. we cannot live. The Syndicate of Agricultural Workers, allied Under the present agreement, the Fri P.T. i» large and several processes are involved, each workshop, to the Syndicates ofFood, Drink and Tobacco Workers, would, destgsing office or laboratory could send its delegate to the therefore, come together with all their diverse occupations to works council, uutructad to cany out the wishes of the ensure an adequate foodsupply, and to make each region as rank-and-file » nearly self-supporting as possible. Through the local communes, This council must never be allowed to assume managerial which 1 shall discuss in the next chapter, the syndicate would powers The good Syndicalist principle of no permanent know what the foodrequirements actually are. Knowing its official;, »ill guard agains! that, and the fact that the council is owncapacity, it would know whether it could keep up supplies COMMAND PERFORMANCE composed of net rept runtorivet, means that ail major from local, regional or national sources. Or, through the issues must be decided by all the workers before the council national committee, it might arrange for the import of produce qpHE STEEL DEBATE on May 6 Fords threw down the gauntlet on that was better than expected. The puts them into ptaeueal shape. from abroad. occasion and it wax not pickedup, now The works council federate* itself in two directions First, performance was superb. U would be they call the tune. You can’t play To do all this, close collaboration with the Transport wrong to pick out any of the actors for ‘vertically* it Jinks itselft* a syndicateof ill the works councils friends and neighbours with Fords. Workers* Syndicate could be maintained. The elimination ofspecial mention, they all warranted the ‘When will we ever learn?* in the country from the seme mdodiy Beginning on works profit-aeeking middlemen could enable produce to go straight to highest praise. There is only one slight U T S BE FRIENDS level, then regional level, then nationaJ, finallyinternational distributive centres, where the Syndicate of Distributive criticism. K don*t think the director level, exchange of inf oimation, technical knowledge and mutualWorkers could present it directly to the public- And the same had bargained for the ad lib. I too think The Institute of Directors is urging an help, keeps all the industry in touch. The workers its a factory that type of thing unfair, especially when overhaul of unions’ structure in order to principle would apply to all industry. Syndicates would form, abandon restrictive practices. Britain's form their works council, ahthe works ofthat industry in a for example, in mining and quarrying, puwer (gas, electricity, they are all comrades in the same club. certain region send didtigatri to a region*! council, them the Now of course, every one is wondering economic difficulties they believe is due atomic power) textiles and clothing, building, wood-working, about the original plot, has it really beento the relationship between workers and regional councils wend didr-gatos to the national council dhernmai*. who iron and sled tclosely linked with engineering and management. There must be a more federate with the syndicate in other couniiies altered? The smAlt part actors believe rfhjpbuiidingi, paper and printing, glass ami pottery. metal they are entitled to know. After all,rational use of manpower to lower costs. Secondly, 'honacmtally', die works council federate* with uuxufiUiuy d i m iv iu im tm u and catering, all linked together bythere will be future charades and if the Union structure must be thoroughly over the industries in its area, in the orcatscm of a coe/edemhmt* a i|ie byndicaies of Hoad, Rail, Air and Sea Transport script is going to be ignored anything hauled and modernised. In other words federation of federations beginning with local councils ofBui such i list can only be speculative Ag the workers begin can happen, even to the dissolving of thego modern, class division exists no more. labour, sliding delegates to regional councils, sanding ddegains organising they will come up against all gyb uf overlapping company The blue company which held Ford shop stewards—please note! to a national council which maintains contact ifliwiuhewHy and border line cases* What j# important to suggest is (hatthe stage for thirteen year* is highly THE LODGER IS UNHAPPY This pattern of organisation is equally capable of luhUliag Syndicate* should be broad laihei than gerund and should delighted with the poet mortem ofthe According to the Duke of Edinburgh pale pinks A few more ad libs like both the functions of SyitonaUixfn--~4hc peesonTday jobstrive of all the time to rriiniruiie divuioji among workeis To industry should ‘puli its finger out'. Can waging the struggle against the owner* and erf organising foi (he this and (he national audience will want we ask the Duke to take his nose out. whtob syndicate worker* belong is not so ig p x u o i as thata change, all for better orworse, it i» hard expropriation of industry, and the task that follows the the workers in any given productive unit belong to the same Polo and Yachting he may know some to tell thing about, work never. take-over, the running of industry in the tree society syndicate Being decentralised, this form of organisation leruains flwibh ! believe that on this sort of basis can be built the onlyFORD* TIGHTEN l i l t STREW POWER CLERKS HAD ENOUGH and sensitive. Nu sooner have the men on the lob taken industrial a pattern which will prove workable in the modern At (he ABU conference the executive NALGO is to ballot its members in the decision than it can be put into action No permission hasworld* to 'Hit aaUafeciHNQ the utaum worker gets from his work was instructed to investigate in ‘inef electrical supply industry on strike action. be sought froman executive milee away, but each works council, depends most of all on the degree of responsibility he achieve*, fective* working of the Ford National An overtime ban since April 26 has not had (he desired effect NALGO has knowing its own positionbest* is responsible only to the and the worth of his product to society. The abolition ofJoint Negotiating Committee. Shop stewards at Fords are experiencing dif always been the more statesmanlike of workers whose wishes it carries out money and the profit motive, the eatahliduneAl of workers* the TU movement. Statesmen turn into During the time of preparation, it may be possible to gofor ficulty. They have to get written permis control and the decentralisation of power would bring a dignitysion to leas'* the job to carry out their rebels if pushed hard enough. If strike long periods without any formal organisation at all. Anarcho- and efiyiem y quite unknown under capitalism union duties. Since the dismissal of the is decided, and the manual workers give Syndicalists do not seek organisation for its own sake, but (To be continued) *17 shop stewards* Fords have really active support, the clerks can't lose. simply t° set ax the means through which the need* of the PS. tightened up. This is not unexpected. B.C.