Chinese Woikers' Puzzle
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Chinese Woikers’ Puzzle Anarchist Weekly# *JX) READ the present stream of enough to put up with in China point) and listen for two or three hysterical reports coming from hours to an harangue by a load of without the added frivolity of the JANUARY 14 1967 Vol 28 No 1 inside China at the moment you layabouts, who. are never going to Red Guard on the rampage. would think that the whole Red lift a heavy load in their lives, on Nor will the peasant tolerate it if Guard affair is a complete and why they should work harder, they are wished on him. The great meaningless mess. The trouble with produce more and then go back to social and cultural revolution has trying to make head or tail of what work and make the time up by nowhere to go. It will either disap goes on is that a considerable part of unpaid overtime. The average pear in a welter of blood and iron the reporting is done in the spirit of Chinese industrial worker works a caused by a panicky and huge army, IEET STREET sensation and the rest is preformed ten hour day (in’the national interest) or the workers and peasants will by a specialised group known as and is then expected to add a couple follow up the logical consequences P ek in o lo g ists, Marxicologists,more at lunch time to listen to the of their present actions and throw Kremlinologists or just plain toxiplatitudes expressing Mao Tse off the shackles of the monomaniac cologists. These gentry, unable to Tung’s more recent and senile ideas. bureaucracy. The present impetus understand the concepts of revolu THE ARMY SHIFTS of the workers will lead them to tion and what it means, are busy seize the organs of production to Unfortunately for the Red Guard INDRESSED playing chess with the fallen bureau hold, and attempt to cotavince the the factories are armed with militia crats’ names and trying to guess the army to throw in its lot with them. units and it appears to be these holy lines of succession. None of this is impossible since we Economist Intelligence Unit's re- respondent, made a charming contrito- units who are deliberately going out Of course the simple solution, and have already seen the election of two fft on Fleet Street’s efficiency has tion, at least it will ensure that he w to processions and demonstrations the true one, escapes them. The workers' committees who already a stir, if nothing else. It has not be one of the redundant reporters and ordering them to take down their Bated chubby Wilson to pontificate emptied out of the Guardian. He laid workers have had a gutful of non appear to have gained control of sacred slogans. The Red Guard \ e more subject that he knows very claim that the printing unions were pro stop poetical rubbish pumped down Shanghai and partial control of appear to have been backed up by |about. When that lad gets stirred tection rackets. He attacked the ‘closed their throats morning, noon and Nanking. regular troops until recently but now puts on his very best Churchillian shop' principle and the overmanning of night. It is no accident that Chair Reports are only reaching us from it appears that as the Army itself is [land attempts to lay down the law. machines. If he had his way 4.000 men man Mao picked on the young places where foreign correspondents threatened by the lunacies of the presenting the awards for the would be on the industrial scrap heap actually are. Much information programme. 'What the Papers tomorrow. student class to purge the party and Red Guards it is not lifting a finger appears to have been accepted ver •expounded his theories on the Cecil King was tackled on the question the country and redirect the masses in these clashes. In the Shanghai batim from the Red Guard posters R eport, and on Fleet Street in of weak management in terms of the to revolutionary thought. and Nanking street fights they were Of all the groups available he which hardly appear to be the most K Daily Mirror. He accepted the fact that nowhere to be seen. ~RtfnIy point that can be gleaned up to five years ago it could possibly be picked the cadres that would largely reliable source. ■be report so far is the fact that claimed that the Mirror management NOT FOR BUREAUCRATS be absorbed by the bureaucracy. So THE ONLY CHOICE B Fleet Street is caused by Weak were weak, but not now. His maxim who would tje more keen? No work, The position is not quite as simple fment. Whilst it is true that the for dealing with the unions is to be firm, a bit of excitement and all on the as presented by inference in some Ten years ago, when the press criticises management for their fair and, in not too much of a hurry— reports came in from middle Europe, Kitence in some cases, the main in other words ‘let them sweat’. right side of the law. reports, that the workers and their jjs is on the weakness of the news- Journalists were criticised for their The worker on the other hand armed militia are working with the everyone was cheered on against the [ employers to stand up to the complacent attitude towards news. What has been battered into believing that old bureaucrats. Firstly it is because Russian oppressors. Fleet Street The report claims that the news- is news? It is anything the editors think industrial production is the most of the incidents and his inability to certainly never mentioned—unless it gjpresses are overmanned to the you should read, and in some cases what important thing for China today. stop them that Mr. Tao, the former was unavoidable—that the workers’ • 40 to 60% making a saving of the Government think you should not Industrialisation must be carried out Mayor of Nanking and Propaganda committees were the backbone of the I for the Daily Mirror and read (D Notices). at a rapid pace for China and for the and Trade Union Chief, was reported revolution. And so in China today for the Guardian. Restrictive Where do we, as printworkers. go from workers themselves to survive. The arrested. Even the party-controlled (as in Hungary), the workers and s, claims the report, have only a here? Do we care if all the national peasant working in his field and the trade unions and their daily news peasants driven by despair have |ra lively small impact and are un- papers go to the wall? Unfortunately bus driver and factory worker are taken the world in their hands. [to have real influence on the at the moment we must, we have to work paper have been officially closed l or failure of any individual news- to eat, but we don’t have to like the way now expected to stop work (at gun down. The workers have had Sp a r k s. they are managed or the unadulterated ! this respect the report was dis- tripe they print. It has been pointed out inting for very many people but that the plant at Printing House Square gelid not prevent Wilson from dimb- will now lie idle from Monday to the bandwagon. Wilson in the Friday. Would anyone question the fact kt tradition of the working dass that printworkeis could not run the THE GREAT AMERICAN LIE jjvement called for solidarity, but don't plant themselves and produce a real [s get carried away. He was calling newspaper? TYR. BENJAMIN SPOCK, the child- Printing is in urgent demand not only casualty rate is so high. The US is not, but the American-man in the street, and solidarity of the employers against care expert, has endorsed an article however, as communists claim, practising many of them must realise it although prinlworkers. He thought the indus- in this country but all over the world. School text books are always in shortin the January issue of the Catholic genocide in Vietnam for genocide means doubtless publicly they ease their con might consider an insurance or in- magazine Ramparts which charges the that the extermination of a people must sciences by prattling about ‘democracy’ enmity policy among themselves to supply because profit comes before need and, until that position is reversed, we US and South Vietnamese governments be an end in itself. But the US must be and the need to defend it L. B. Johnson, over the cost of unofficial hold-ups of gross neglect of hundreds of thousands coming close to exterminating the peoplewhen he visited his men in Vietnam ^official ones would be another matter). will continue to drift from crisis to crisis. Bill Christopher . of Vietnamese children burned by in some areas of Vietnam whatever the after the recent Manila conference, did [Too true, official stoppagesmight be napalm. The writer of the article, technical name for it. On today’s TV not bore them with all the fine-sounding another matter! Union affiliation fees William Pepper, spent six months in newsreel there are shots of US troops in spiel about ‘freedom’ that he had come ! come in very handy to the Labour Party South Vietnam and estimates that 250,000 action. They are standing up, in the out with at the conference. Instead he funds. Even this will not worry the children have been killed since 1961 and open, blazing away at an enemy not talked much about American living stan-, ; Labour Party for very much longer once 750,000 burned or otherwise’ wounded.