No Voles of Eighteen! Anarchist Weekly • EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT not idealists (have no ideals), who representative of a minority as the youngsters mature much earlier are realists (have no principles), who old ones. The leaders become the NOVEMBER 16 1968 Vol 29 No 35 nowadays. Puberty at 13, 12 or are adjusted (have no imagination). new elite; the rank and file begin a even 11 is regulation—the late But what if the youngsters won't new experience in disillusionment. starter begins to think something is be fobbed off with lies, spit out the 4. You isolate the real revolutionaries. wrong! What with the permissive soothing syrup, answer the gentle These are the hard core of real direct society, Dr. Spock, bless him, pro- actionists who embrace direct action pat with a smack in*the mouth— as a principle not as a tactic, because gressive parents (if you're lucky), what then? What if the society of what they want—a reorganisation propaganda for the pill, a vague the squares does not impress them, of society without any government grasp of what Reich was on about, in fact disgusts them? What if they at all—cannot be achieved by playing Who will rid us of and the beat, beat, beat of the pop want to run their own world on their politics and choosing masters. Once group hammering at our heart- own terms and begin to find ways isolated, these can be deah with by all strings, to fix the 'age of consent' at and means, to bring it all about? the extra-parliamentary methods that 16 seems a bloody imposition. And What if they refuse to be held the ruling class is quite prepared to since the teen age is the age, you've down? What if they PROTEST? use when its interests are threatened: got a whole lot of livin' to do before victimisation, character assassination, IT IS WRONG TO OPPOSE police and prison methods—the lot. this meddlesome you're twenty. t Now this is great as long as you're Well, almost by definition, the oldies THE BIG CON GAME content to live it up on someone were not born yesterday. They own These then are basically the reasons else's terms, as laid down by the the means of expression and they can why our undemocratic Labour Govern- oldies, objecting to they know not sneer and scarify and pervert the truth ment is introducing voting at 18. It what, but stoutly holding that and bring their propaganda to bear is a big con game to divert our vigorous Priest ? schooldays are the best days of your so that when we are peaceful we are young protesters from direct action— lives and you should have fun wrong and when we are aggressive we an attempt to make them feel that are wrong. Whatever we do is wrong they have a stake, in constitutional par- T'HE REVEREND E»r. Ian K. Paisley pockets when the plate is passed round, within limits. because basically it is wrong to oppose ■*• is in his forties. His 'titles' were and it's notes not silver they give liamentary authoritarian society after These limits are pop and coke (no, them! all. There may even be a pathetic hope bought for a few dollars from the generally. Lastly, the huge throng of no, not pot and poke) and good Except by ways they can control. that young voters are more likely to Bob Jones 'University', a southern funda- urban protestant extremists, mostly clean fun, the more Outward Bound Someone in high places had a brain- vote Labour than Tory. mentalist racket in the USA. Five working class, -for although many of the better. Attention to superficial wave and thought 'There is nothing But they will fail. This television years ago he was just a joke, a sick the bourgeoisie support him financially wrong with young people that the ability generation can dig Shifty Harold as joke. Today he is a very real menace, it isn't the done thing to attend with cleanliness, get your hair cut, do to vote wouldn't cure' because, he clearly as Slimy Ted. We are not Ulster's Elmer Gantry. His 'free the hoi-polloi. They hate O'Neill as your homework and get good passes thought, all this extra-parliamentary taken in. In any case we are seeing Presbyterian' churches are spreading, the much as the Pope, and the ecumenical in your 'O' levels and 'A' levels and activity stems directly from the fact clearer than ever before that freedom Protestant Telegraph, his fortnightly hate movement even more. And always there on" to University for three steady that the youngsters are frustrated. Give —and it is freedom we want—just sheet, is reported to be about to appear are the strongarm men, strategically years of hard work at the taxpayers' them the opportunity to express them- cannot come through the channels of weekly. It is worth stealing a copy—cer- scattered around the hall. They used expense and great sacrifice by your selves through constitutional channels government. tainly you wouldn't pay them for it. It to have to deal with hecklers, but few parents. Remember the teacher is and you kill several birds with one In our art schools and universities does however have that certain endearing are foolhardy enough to dare heckle always right and Dad knows best stone: students want the kind of responsibility robustness of style about it—where else now. Union Jacks bedeck their halls 1. First of all you skim off all those that freedom brings. In our factories would you see the Archbishop of Canter- and churches for aren't they as loyal and Mum is always there to talk to who don't really believe in direct the frustrations of bossdom give impetus bury described as 'the archtraitor Ram- as our gallant kith and kin in Rhodesia, and once you get your degree—and action anyway. This includes all to demands for workers' control—the shackle, who looks like an overfed like that nice Mr. Lardner-Burke? In- by Christ you'd better get a good real grass roots democracy that cannot Bulgarian peasant' or be subjected to deed they are, but most of the TV second at least—then you're away those who basically are politically- orientated and who would be prou'l to come through choosing slimy opportunists Screaming headlines such as—'Mass celc-. Sets ;>'.■»'"*".':• hoiwcs have a iainy picture for life with a safe.pensionable job vote for their own candidate if they to hddie the capitalist economy for the brated at Buckingham Palace', 'Russia of Rev. Ian alongside our radiant with ICI and a semi-detached of got the chance. Short of getting next five years. in cahoots with the Vatican', 'Rome's Majesty's. your very own in Croinge. the ticky- 'their own candidate' they will vote ' We are not seeking participation in satajiic lies', 'Homosexuals married in Some would have us believe that tacky dream come true. And a great of the next best—however near the our own degradation. We are seeking RC church', 'Common Market an RC Paisley is the victim of the extremists sigh of relief for the terrible teenage worst he happens to be. There are the dignity of free men, which we have plot', 'RCs spawn of satan', 'The mas- within his own group, just as the pathetic years safely behind you. also those who want to be able to take for ourselves. sacre of Altnaveigh'—which turns out O'Neill is. This is manifestly not so. to say 'We have tried all the proper We do not want your vote, Harold to be three highly inflammatory pages No one upstages Ian when it comes to EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS channels before being driven by Wilson. What we want we are going about the murder of six Protestants f extremism. He is a shrewd fascist desperation to direct ac ion'. Give to take—and there is nothing you can 46 years ago by the IRA? Life on easy terms—to secure the who knows his audience. He knows future shall be as the past, only these one more channel up which to do about it. Another contributor whose words of how to exploit the religious divisions • * more so. The only mystery, the only waste their time and at the very JUSTIN. wisdom are given several pages is that in this community and how to capitalize least a further breathing space has great white Christian gentleman Gover- on and enlarge the split. His latest uncertainty — the generation gap, been won. nor Lester Maddox of Georgia, friend venture is the attempt to bring back seemingly bigger than ever before, a 2. The sooner you get your suckers of the Afro-American. Frighteningly, the the 'Clyde Valley', a leaky old tub new affluence bringing a new cul- hooked on harmless methods the circulation of this provocative trash is which was used to run guns in 1912. ture, a new freedom bringing a new better. Get them believing in AFB increasing. But Paisley is a man of The gullible public were persuaded to confidence, a new, inexplicable Parliament and majority rule, and peace, he's told us so, and it runs in subscribe to this lunatic enterprise, and maturity bringing new demands. you've got them believing in being the family. His goodladywife Coun- aided by big business interests (shades NEW DEMANDS! There's the ruled. This is the most important cillor Eileen Paisley, Ulster's walking of an earlier Adolf) a geriatric retired con to work on anyone. Who does CONFERENCE skipper was flown to Newfoundland danger signal! A red light glowing advertisment for halitosis, is a vigilant from the Red Bricks signals an end the ruling doesn't really matter, since champion of public morality. On the to bring the fair barque back to the 'TWERE HAS BEEN a certain amount to childish pastimes. Rugger, row- governments are all essentially the A committee which banned Ulysses from ould sod (believed to be a reference to same anyway. Just get them believing of correspondence about the article Belfast cinemas, she walked out afier Mr. Paisley). After extensive and ex- ing and rag days for charity are not that it is important to make a in FREEDOM on the conference. Unfor- tunately FREEDOM does not have room half an hour saying that the film was pensive repairs she set sail and the enough; we are now asking 'Why nonexistent choice for a nonexistent for this and it is suggested that the 'disgusting, obscene and has a good Protestant Telegraph proudly announced charity?', 'Why poverty?', 'Why difference, and you've got them ac- plug for popery in it'. (Since Joyce was that she would arrive back at Larne on war?', 'Why waste?*', 'Why this irre- cepting their own nonexistence. correspondence be taken over by the LFA Internal Bulletin. Comrades not in born in Dublin he must have been a October 26 (DV). D it appears was sponsibility?', 'Why authority?'. 3. Once they are hooked oi) this, the good teague.) not too V, since the wretched hulk rest is easy. Even if the old parties the LFA wishing to take the Bulletin These are embarrassing questions, which will contain a section of inter- Her other big campaign recently has almost sank forty miles out and had and can be asked only as long as the fall by the wayside, the corruption been to ensure that the city's parks and to be dragged back to port again. of power will itself take care of national news can subscribe for 10/- plus young questioners will be fobbed postage for ten issues. play centres remain closed on Sunday £5,750 worth of repairs later, the new any revolutionary content in any new as it is clearly immoral for kids to date is November 16 (DV). off with lies, soothing syrup and parties that take their place. By Peter Neville wishes to point out that the arrangements for the first quarterly swing on the sabbath. But she is a But the farcical elements of extremist gentle pats on the head. There, the time a new mass revolutionary regional delegate conference in Birming- mbther first and foremost as the free fundamentalism should not encourage there, you leave it to the more party of the working class has ham are being made by him. Suggestions, Presbyterian congregation appreciate, for us to ignore it. Paisley's self-inflicted mature citizens, the ones who know climbed to power it will have be- etc., to Peter Neville, c/o Birmingham when the twins were born to her an martyrdom of three months in jail has what real life is all about, who are come as oligarchic, as dictatorial, as Peace Action Centre, Factory Road, Bir- enthusiastic member rose mid-service to only served to strengthen his hand. mingham 19. congratulate the noble Ian—'He knows He now feels that he can ensure the it's not just for stirring his porridge cancellation of any demonstration that DIGGER. with'. m he doesn't like—e.g. civil rights—by But anyone attending a Paisley service threatening a counter-demonstration. He knows it's no laughing matter. It's has had private talks with Adolf Craig. very unnerving. Accompanied by his our beloved Minister of Home Affairs. The Presidential Election faithful (or perhaps not so faithful) lieu- So far he has had his own way in the tenant, Rev. 'Squealer' Wylie, Ian, his streets, aided and abetted by our fascist 'There's nothing they won't do to during the confrontation with Mayor ruddy butcher boy's face aglow, whips misgovernment, but the time of his raise the standard of BOREDOM'. Daley's police even the politically in- Out this week Ihc people up to a frenzy of bigotry— comeuppance is at hand. Soon he'll have (From a Situationist strip-cartoon.) nocent youth were convinced that 'the scarlet whore on the banks of to be taught that other people have a electoral politics was a dead-end. The the Tiber", 'the beast of the apocalypse right to the streets and will not brook YlflTHIN A DAY of getting elected final insult came when McCarthy, not which is Rome', the stream of filth keeps his interference. " President of the United States, unexpectedly from an anarchist point on spewing out. The first twenty rows JOHN BELFAST. Richard Nixon met his defeated 'op- of view, endorsed Humphrey's candidacy. are filled with the behatted ladies who ponent' Hubert H. Humphrey and with So the manoeuvre failed. Those who ANARCHY 93 dote on him; just past the menopause him issued a joint statement calling for were momentarily de-radicalised by the and looking for a filial surrogate, they WHO THE HELL DO YOU unity. No other proof is necessary of McCarthy trick, have now returned to lead the chorus of hallelujahs. The THINK YOU ARE? this sham contest. Although the Demo- work within the SDS and similar discusses red-necked farmers, uncomfortable in crats have retained their majority in organisations. their, stiff collars, come next. They School leaflet both the Senate and the House of Nothing has been resolved by this seem. subdued but dig deep into their now ready representatives, this does not mean that election. The Vietnam War drags on. RADIO FREEDOM they are going to challenge. Nixon in And if the assassination plot on Nixon £1 a 1,000 or 2/6d. a 100 (plus postage) any way, the Industrial/Military complex is anything to go by, there is again a WE GO TO PRESS ON MONDAY. ANARCHY is Published by from is a coalition and will continue to rtile renewed danger of war in the Middle LATEST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF Anarchist Publications Committee, as before. East, where Nixon is committed to FREEDOM PRESS at 2s, MSS., LETTERS, MEETING NOTICES The electoral ballyhoo has taken many arming the Israelis, whilst the Russians on first Saturday of every month 84a Whitechapel High Street, anti-war militants initially away from continue arming the Arab countries. IS THE MONDAY IN EACH WEEK London, E.l. the real issues. But by the time of OF PUBLICATION. Democratic Convention in Chicago and

% Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa 2 3 4 5 10 11 unesp Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 the sinister influences at work on the London editors publishing news of Arab INEVITABLE WARIN THE MIDDLE EAST defeats. A revolutionary movement within either Israel or the Arab countries can books 7 rpHE DEMANDS of modern war struggle, too; it is unfortunate from this Sudanese workers and open to Jews, they only come from the bottom upwards; and *• require that the individual not only point of view that power politics aligns were murdered (one by the police in ultimately it will. It will not do so while ive can si/pp/y commit himself on one side or the other, them now with the French Right Wing, open fire; one by nationalists). In Israel, the working class have, or feel they have, but insist on the general perfection of now with the Americans (on whom despite occasional allegations that an the major interest in warfare that per- his side. The argument that runs 'if you domestic political pressures can also be anarchist movement is about to be petuates the nation State. One cannot an/ Aoo/r w? print were a Vietnamese, you would have to applied). Advanced co-operation on the created, there has certainly been no ves- in revolutionary terms think of 'Jews' SECONDHAND choose to be involved' applies equally in industrial and consumer level, with tiges of one. (I cannot regard seriously and 'Arabs'; it is only by the abandon- the not unknown reformist-anarchist who ment of nationalism and the State that We have a large stock of secondhand Israel and also in the neighbouring Arab liberal injections of private enterprise retires to Israel to write an occasional we can end both exploitation and war. books. Try us for what you want. This States. It is the more likely to appeal to from capitalists and bankers elsewhere, broadsheet in Yiddish on the wonders of It is equally true, of course, that there week's selection. people with revolutionary social con- have produced a mixed economy in Israel Three Ann Quinn 12/6 sciousness. The Jewish bourgeoisie could that is perhaps a foretaste of the 'alter- Judaism from Moses to Ben-Gurion.) is no solution, in those terms, to the The most, therefore, that the revolu- Rainbow Fish Ralph Bates 4/- fit in as a trading community in the native to 1984'—the liberal-socialist-capi- problems of 'whites' and 'coloureds'; or tionary can ever do in the matter is to 'Northern' and 'Southern' Irishmen. Such The Quiet American Graham Greene 3/6 Levant, to the complete satisfaction of talist solution of involvement and inte- look somewhat pityingly on the people 'solutions' only solve the problems of Journal of Arthur Stirling the Arabs generally; no Zionist would gration within the present economic Upton Sinclair 3/- object to the oil sheikhs, desert kings framework. Martin Buber held, of around him who, on some issues, appear the present exploitative society. Solu- The Thief Takers Patrick Pringle 8/6 and Arab military leaders, provided they course, that the alternative to 'Moscow' to be moving in his direction, and then, tions in terms of a free society mean at the sound of battle in Sinai, either scrapping such abstracts as nationalism Prisoners at the Bar (Bill Haywood, afforded no threat to the growth of the (and to 1984) was 'Jerusalem'. This Sacco and Vanzetti, etc.) 8/6 Jewish state. Since however Israel has mixed economy of liberal capitalism is rush to Marks & Spencer's London office —that is why these solutions have to be The Wings of the Morning evolved into a nation with a working indeed the antithesis to feudal com- to volunteer for Israel; or mutter about revolutionary. A. MELTZER. Edward Hyams 3/6 class as well as a trading bourgeoisie; munism on the Egyptian plan (public Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night and since the Arab leaders have to works plus hereditary class control). Margaret Duras (paperback) 5/- reckon with a vast mass of pushed-under But the difference in economies has The Assassins: of American workers and peasants who have no nothing to do with the clash which was Presidents Robert J. Donovan 8/6 chance of life at all but revolution at inherent from the very beginning. One Biology in the World Today home or war abroad (and in the case of can blame 'the Jews' by saying that ob- some, war on their own territory), there viously from the start it was clear that Red & Brown L. Anderson Fenn 2/6 Towards Democracy is no alternative to war in some degree the only way what was then Palestine or another. Ultimately—such is power could become a Jewish State would be 117B STOOD at the table seeking to giants of our dying age. A poet of Edward Carpenter 3/- " choose between the regimented limited talent, he played with the visual The Croquet Player H. G. Wells 3/6 politics—such a war could involve the by genocide (in those days the Zionists world. argued they did not want a Jewish State rows of red and white wines and vainly appearances of his poetry in the man- The Turning Point Klaus Mann 3/- seeking for the exotic on the plates of nered fashion of today's concrete poets Mazzini Bolton King 3/- International considerations may limit but merely a National Home). On the the Middle East war or cause it to ob- other hand, the majority of Jews did not Private View foods. The commissionaires, and wrote out his appreciations of his The War and the Second polished and officiously servile, blocked associates' revolutionary art theories in International . V. I. Lenin 3/- serve an uneasy armistice from time to go to Palestine voluntarily. They went time while both sides watch for the as a direct result of European anti- the doorway to the Royal Mall while a parody of the style of Oscar Wilde Birth Control and the State we of the Private View drank of the that still dies the death in the unreadable C. P. Blacker 3/6 inevitable incident which can say that semitism and because genocide in Russia the other side is 'aggressing'—as if any- and Germany made no other place pos- red and the white. From the royal columns of International Times. My Years in Germany (1939) drag came the shrill screaming of officers For this was Guillaume Apollinaire, a Martha Dodd 7/6 one really cares which side 'starts it'—so sible. The world was prepared to accept that hostilities may commence; in fact, small numbers of Jews, particularly as and the dull rustle of Guardsmen fixing man of splendid company and slight Science at Your Service their bayonets while the off-stage band talent. A bourgeois patriot in the Julian Huxley, Bragg, Appleton, etc. 3/- all realists know that hostilities will com- traders; nowhere in the world was pre- mence the moment it is in the military pared to accept millions of 'pauper' (in hammered out God Save the Queen gentlest meaning of the term in that The Frustration of Science and the blond coach lumbered by and when the band played and the flags Crowther, Bernal, Blackett 3/- interest of either the Jewish State or the other words potential working class) Arab States. To judge from the stand- Jews, least of all those countries which Adrian Henri, Poet of the Month, blew waved he tumbled into uniform and Wind, Sand and Stars a kiss to an elderly admirer. won a head wound and a photograph Antoine de Saint-Exupery 5/6 point of the schoolyard argument ('he hit claimed to have attained socialism and me first') may suit innumerable paid and solved the unemployment problem which Guillaume Apollinaire has been dead as a passport into the Establishment. unpaid propagandists for either side, but was claimed to be the barrier. these fifty years and the Institute of Apollinaire was no wild man of the Freedom Bookshop it is only in default of an alternative case. It is for this reason that the recurrence Contemporary Arts decided to celebrate boulevards for he loved the Establish- No plea that 'the other side started it' is of hostilities are inevitable, because it is the occasion by inviting sixty artists and ment and desired to become part of needed in order to oppose tyranny. But the Jewish working class which has the poets to pay public homage to the it and its cage formed the boundaries all who espouse from a partisan point of stake in Israel, while the capitalist can late Guillaume. It was a small peg of his poetic flights. view either pan-Arabism or Zionism (and frequently does) go anywhere in the on which to hang an, exhibition and So what better place should have must feel uneasy at the company they world he chooses. And conversely the the mass of second-rate work appears been chosen than the Institute of Con- keep. displaced Palestinian Arabs in particular, to have justified the choice of corpses temporary Arts in the Royal Mall? The The followers of 'Communism' (Mos- but also anyone in the neighbouring for public rehabilitation. celebration was named and organised Write by Simon Watson Taylor and as such cow, Peking, Havana or Mexico-Mauso- Arab countries with nothing to lose, has Within every social, political or leum brands) are almost all committed to everything to gain from war, which—so aesthetic movement there is that man he is responsible for the one amusing the notion of a current Arab revolution, long as it is successful—will be popular. or woman who forms a focal point thing about the celebration. Mike unless they happen to be in an Egyptian Has the revolutionary, therefore, no- for those with talent to come together. Kustow had, in the course of his duties or Come! desert prison (and including many of the thing whatever to say in the matter? He Theirs is the cafe table, the place at for the celebration, to invite sixty latter, too). Nasser's officer clique, the has certainly no method of influencing the bar, the small shop or the private artists/poets to flex their muscles for Editorial office open Friday, JXovemDer oil-rich sheikhs, the Nazi advisers In the situation, because no single group dwelling to which all those witfe some- the cause and among those INVITED 15, 6-8 p.m. and Monday, November 18, Cairo, the 'Socialist' officers of Baghdad emerged in any of the Arab countries thing to proclaim gravitate. The man was Jeff Nuttall of the bubble curls, the 2-8 p.m. and the wily entrepreneurs of Beirut who without being instantly suppressed, nor at the table becomes the editor of the erratic temper and the way-way out prose Telephone: BIShopsgate 3015. even manage to stay neutral in their own in Israel at all, that was prepared even personal appearance seeking out for style who offered to contribute a bucket war, are all 'objectively' part of the to consider the possibility of revolu- public or private amusement the gifted of shit. This was one of those occa- New temporary address: minority and his reward is the vicarious sions when a single matter of bad taste 84a WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET, socialist revolution because they are tionary internationalism. So far as the excitement of a proprietary interest of becomes an inspired choice for the c/o Express Printers, deemed to be anti-imperialist. anarchist movement is concerned, to the Unfortunately, the Israeli Socialists best of my knowledge the Husseini the man of the hour. Institute of Contemporary Arts were (entrance Angel Alley), Such a man was Apollinaire. Joy of forced to take a stand, not by an WHITECHAPEL, E.l. who have picked at the same texts, use brothers were the only propagandists to the same anti-imperialist arguments and be directly influenced by anarchism. the Parisian cafe society, friend of accident of history as with the DIAS (Underground: Aldgate East. Exit: Picasso, Picabia, Chirico, Derain, Mar- Whitechapel Art Gallery. Turn right the same quotations from oil statistics, Within a few weeks of forming a affair but coldly and collectively at a coussis, Cocteau, and all those mini- on emerging from station.) to prove that theirs is an anti-imperialist labour movement amongst Egyptian and Continued on page 3 Temporary opening times: bank, Brighton. 28a Hardgate or Ian Mitchell. 3 Sinclair Road. Tuesday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. BRIGHTON & HOVE ANARCHIST GROUP. GLASGOW ANARCHIST GROUP. Robert Lynn, Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Contact Nick Heath, Flat 3, 26 Clifton Road, 12 Ross Street, S.E. or Joe Embleton, 26 Kirk- Anarchist Federation of Britain Brighton, BN1 3HN. Regular fortnightly meetings. land Road, N.W. Contact Secretary. HAMILTON AND DISTRICT ANARCHIST General enquiries should be sent to the London Federation, c/o Freedom Press, 84a Whitechapel High SUSSEX UNIVERSITY ANARCHIST GROUP GROUP. Robert Linton, 7a Station Road, New Street, London, E.l. (see details under Student Groups). Stevenston, Motherwell. 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Centra de Documentario e Apoio a Pesquisa 10 11 unesp^ Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 maintain that their dream is simulta- neously the dream of all other people. FIFTH COLUMN Were all repressive obstacles to be re- What Students Face moved, the dream in question would sively accept their own political systems automatically be realised. However it is Government of the just as the British do. obviously important to distinguish be- Thus if the absence of significant tween what people want and what they People, by the People opposition to a system shows that the are capable of in different circumstances. in Aberdeen... people want it, all existing political And to make the point that state repres- T IBERAL DEMOCRACY is defended systems are wanted by the people who sion is not enough to stop a determined PRINCIPAL WRIGHT of Aberdeen is alleged to be involved at a high **^ on the grounds that the people want live under them. people. command level in the Government's post nuclear set-up. A couple it and that it is fair and just. This the liberal democrat would not The liberal democrat cannot shelter The majority of the British people do accept. He considers that all those who under the claim that the people want the of years ago, the Glasgow Herald reported him as opposing the cutback political system he favours. He must of the Territorial Army and the universities' OTC, since they would be not oppose liberal democracy. They be- do not have liberal democracy are thirst- have as the system demands, refraining ing for it. If they do not appear to defend his position by showing that only needed after a nuclear war. from active participation in politics of struggle to create liberal democracy it liberal democracy is fair and just. This Students in Aberdeen have a thin time. Not only at university but at any kind yet turning out to vote at can only be that they are deterred from is after all what he means by saying that other institutions, too. Perhaps the worst is the College of Commerce, general elections. In other countries, under doing so by state repression. In other only under liberal democracy can the where 40-year-old mature students have their names taken for being five regimes which the liberal democrat would words only under a liberal democratic people's wants be clearly expressed. minutes late and the Principal spends his days (on a salary of £6,000) describe as totalitarian, the majority system can the people's wants be clearly The first objection to the claim that going along the corridors peering in windows to make sure that no one similarly behave as the system demands. expressed. Jiberal democracy is fair and just is that has a coat hanging over a chair back—one of several minor matters he In Spain, the UAR and the Soviet Union, This particular argument is not it is only a formal system. Liberal demo- has a phobia about. People are regularly expelled for 'insubordination'. the mass of the people are not enrolled restricted to liberal democrats. Many cracy does not touch the reality of power in revolutionary movements: they pas- political theorists and propagandists and decision-making. It is not a separate The judge of 'insubordination' is the Principal. system of government at all, only the The Education Committee of Aberdeen Town Council is dominated most sophisticated method yet devised by the ultra-right wing Church of Scotland who have a number of fanatics of conning the people that their opinions co-opted on. How much longer will the people of Aberdeen allow this event then the fault is yours in that count; that they can affect what happens to go on? Must we allow our children's lives to be run by non-elected Red & Brown you chose the contributor, he did not to them. Calvinists? As a result of Church domination religion is rammed down Continued from page 2 choose you. The evidence for the view that the the throat of every pupil in Aberdeen. Even at the College of Commerce, table. And Simon Watson Taylor as Just as the New York, Salon des function of general elections is to per- attendance at the end of term service is compulsory—the alternative is to the organiser of the Apollinaire cele- Independents is only saved from historic suade people that they influence events, bration rejected Nuttall's bucket of shit oblivion because they rejected Du- rather than actually to make it possible submit to being herded into the library—a bit thick when you're 40. champ's piss basin, so the Apollinaire for them to do this, is overwhelming. At the Robert Gordon's Technical College, the Art School and the as a contribution to the non-event of the aging year. celebration will only be remembered The slogans of the political parties em- Architectural College, things are just as bad. What is lacking is any form In 1915 the New York Salon des because the Top Brass of the Institute phasise the differences between them— of co-ordination of aims and tactics between dissenters at all the varied Independents indignantly rejected Marcel of Contemporary Arts found them- their actions in power demonstrate their colleges. A properly organised, democratically controlled students' union Duchamp's Fountain. Vainly Duchamp selves out of their depth and they similarities. The policies which are pre- (with all delegates subject to the right of recall) is an essential. The pointed out that it was an exhibition lost their collective nerve and rejected sented to the voters before elections can authorities are organised. So must the students be. of independents and that as a member a bucket of shit from an invited artist fulfil either of these functions—or both. PETER THE PAINTER. of the jury he was willing to accept while they were prepared to accept so Policies may be inspiring yet vague, cal- his own work but it was not to be much third-rate work from other men. culated to gain the support of a parti- and Marcel Duchamp's piss basin with I have no feeling in the matter of cular group but involving no clear com- the signature of R. Mutt was rejected. Guillaume Apollinaire, for he lived out mitment; or they may be generally in- It was rejected by these good bourgeois a pleasant and amusing life and it is offensive and likely to be implemented ... and in Leeds Americans for the same reason as the doubtful if the. history of contemporary whichever party wins; or they may be Institute of Contemporary Arts, the art would have been altered one iota stated in quite different and contrasting pASCISTS USE DIFFERENT tactics be forgotten by people in general by Royal Mall, rejected Jeff Nuttall's if he had never lived for there is always terms by the two parties but amount to another man at another cafe table to ■*■ to reactionary and racialist Con- the day after tomorrow. But for the bucket of shit for, to quote Simon much the same thing in the end. And, attract the passing spectator. servative politicians. While the former people in the Union, the students who Watson Taylor, 'if all that Jeff can most important of all, what is said To seek a final summing up of are busy pushing militant racialism to took part in the demonstration, it is scrape out of the bowels of his imagi- before elections is likely to be explained this celebration for the plump ghost of the working class as a quick and easy a demonstration of the fact that they're nation, to mark his enthusiasm for the away after them 'in the light of new Apollinaire one must not turn to Simon answer to all the questions their vicious there. A politician isn't a dominating memory of Apollinaire, is a bucket circumstances' while unpopular policies Watson Taylor's fulsome introduction exploitation forces them to ask, Con- act of God,.he's as important as people of shit and a line (out of context) are usually not mentioned at all. to the celebration but to his article on servative politicians are specialising in let him be. We didn't let him be very from one of Apollinaire's sillier bits It is interesting that the growth in the Apollinaire in the London magazine, non-events at universities. important. He was made into an object of barrack-room juvenilia, why not power of the state and the bureaucratic wherein he states that 'in fact, Apol- Their general idea seems to be to lesson in a political education. simply opt out of the whole project'. political machine—together with the lack linaire was altogether rather awkwardly go to a university and provoke a hairy/ We must not be too worried by Wall's Simon Watson Taylor has posed the of any clear differences between the placed to be the spokesman of the lefty demonstration and then scream free speeoh mouthings. He and others question and he should, after all these major parties in countries like America avant-garde in art and literature. He 'Free speech, free speech!' to a well- like him have had ample opportunity seasons in the field, know the answer and Britain—has been accompanied by had no intellectual understanding what- heeled press. Patrick Wall, MP, has to spew his views over the media. The and it is this, Simon Watson Taylor: a tendency to personalise politics. The soever of painting, and in poetry he been to Leeds once and got a sensation- reason we demonstrated against him was When you invite people to contribute to key question in Richard Nixon's cam- constantly felt the tug of the rich worthy response (the lying press said because we don't have the chance to any form of public manifestation you paign was not how he proposed to end sonorities of the symbolism on which we had kicked his wife to the ground be heard unless we do demonstrate. We should be aware and know the manner the Vietnam war but whether he could he had nurtured his sensibilities. It and "then used her for a trampoline). live in a society where men with and the personality of those you ask successfully assume the image of an would not be unfair to say that he You can't have enough of a good 100 watt amplifiers and men with gags and, in that it is you who have asked and honest second-car salesman. was totally innocent of any metaphysical thing so little Patrick came back on in their mouths are kindly given the they who are giving, you must be The main function of the politician is or sociological curiosity'. Then what November 8 for another go. We had same right of free speech. We are in prepared to accept on their terms what- to sustain the myth that by supporting are we celebrating, Simon? issued a leaflet, part of which said: the gag-removing business. ever they offer. If you find that any him the people choose him as an ex- 'We must demonstrate our contempt LEEDS DIRECT ACTION. contribution is out of key with the ARTHUR MOYSE. pression of their will; he exercises power for trash like Wall, we must have on their behalf and does what they want. a carnival in the hall, a carnival This is a myth not only because real that demonstrates that we are on political issues are not discussed at elec- assembly supports the actions of those tions but because the successful politician the side of life as opposed to Wall's students who occupied the Registry on tight-arsed, hypocritical, political is not in fact able to do very much. Monday night'. The motion was defeated Formally success in a British general way of death.' by a two-thirds majority. (The previous And we did. We socked it to him Aberdeen University Sit-in election gives a political party immense day an 'anti-militant' petition had been with mighty song renditions, and to- power. The reality is that it can act r\N MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, at 4. To show that there exists in drawn up and had been signed by nearly only within certain quite narrow limits. wards the end of the meeting more 1,000 loyal supporters of the bureau- people were listening to the various other ^ 5 p.m., 60 students moved into the Aberdeen a group of militant left-wing When a new government is formed there Aberdeen University Registry to stage a students who are prepared to use tactics cracy.) The 60 students were denounced are some new faces in Whitehall offices— small meetings in the Hall than were as being an 'irresponsible minority' listening to him. And finally, to a token sit-in. The students were demand- of dramatic direct action, which are the but the work in those offices goes on ing to be given statistics pertaining to only ways of cutting through the delay- totally unrepresentative of the mass of much as usual. It is only in their chorus of 'We'll meet again', he left students. The 'irresponsible minority' 25 minutes early. failure rates at this University believing ing and diversionary tactics of the speeches, that ministers can pretend they that such figures are essential to discus- University bureaucracy, to further the however had made no claims as to being are in control: in their own offices they All Wall gets out of it is a little representative of the whole. The object more for his press cutting library. It'll sion and action on matters concerning ends of the student population as a cannot avoid seeing that they are essen- the lives of students. The Students' whole. of the sit-in was to draw to the attention tially public relations officers for their Representative Council had already asked The six students who had worked out of the mass of students to the great dis- own departments rather than architects the Administration for failure figures but provisional failure rates published their crepancies in their educational system of the nation's destiny. MOVING FUND had been told that these would take many findings in the University newspaper and and this object was accomplished success- The political party is not only faced months to compile. Six students how- these showed clearly that there was a fully. The majority of students did not by the entrenched power of the state. Target is £500. ever worked out provisional figures for vast difference in the percentage of over- support the sit-in BUT were now aware Allied to it are, for example, the bureau- Received to Date—£422 12s. Od. 22 different subjects in ONE AFTER- all failures for the 22 subjects investi- that something was far wrong with the cracy which controls industry, financial NOON by looking up pass lists pub- gated. For example some subjects such University system of student assessment interests inside and outside the country PREMISES FUND lished in a local newspaper. This in itself as Sociology and Logic had an overall and were demanding more information. and various foreign governments. It is NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY hardly surprising that most politicians in Target is £1,000 per year. was a lengthy process and would have failure rate of 5% while at the other been greatly simplified had the students end of the scale, German and Latin had The outcome of Wednesday's meeting office follow the example of their pre- Pledges honoured to date and dona- was that the Principal agreed to release tions—£494 Is. 7d. been allowed access to University files. 31.8% and 32.5% respectively and decessors: they have little choice. The The Administration had obviously stalled Natural Philosophy had 48%. It was the information demanded not 'after people who vote for them have even less. many months' as originally stated but the SRC—a body which has no power also noted that a department's position WYNFORD HICKS. and no say in the running of the Univer- below or above the mean is remarkably in one week's time. A victory for the sity (a striking example of student consistent each year. In other words militants? Not entirely. The students exasperation is the fact that only 24% those departments who failed 30% last are not being permitted to have access Good Going! to the full figures themselves; the of students voted at the SRC elections a year have done so consistently for a long fortnight ago). time and will no doubt continue to do Administration 'will supply the required FINANCIAL STATEMENT statistics'. Reading between the lines Estimated Expenses: THE AIMS OF THE STUDENTS so. (The average over the whole Univer- DRAWING sity has been constant at around 16% this means that the authorities will sup- 44 weeks at £90: £3,960 The sit-in was a protest against the ply figures at their own discretion. Income: Sales and Subs.: £3,394 for years but the standard of student in ineffectuality of the SRC and against the terms of A-levels, etc., has been con- Nevertheless the militants had got the THE LINE reticence of the University Authorities ball rolling. A further motion was pro- DEFICIT: £566 stantly rising.) The Administration's in releasing the required statistics. The reticence in publishing failure rates is posed at Wednesday's meeting to the Quotation of the week must go to the precise aims of the occupying students thus obvious; if the statistics were known effect that 'All information available to Vice-Chancellor of Reading University, PRESS FUND were as follows: a student might shop around for low- the Senatus Academicus (the governing H. R. Pitt. Woodstock, Vt.: E.S. £5; Berkeley, Cal.: 1. To demand and extract all figures failure departments and the University bureaucracy of the University) and per- Speaking in Reading he referred to A.K. £1/6/6; Hartford, Conn.: D.S. 12/-; pertaining to failure rates as we believe would be forced into an examination of taining to the running of this University persons inside and outside the university Oxford: Anon* 5/-; Caerphilly: R.W. 5/8; that no information directly affecting the reasons for the ridiculous discre- should be made available to all students'. who held views 'positively destructive of Wolverhampton: J.K.W.* 2/-; J.L.* 3/-; students should be withheld from them. pancies in failure rates. This motion was passed by an over- political and national institutions and London, N.W.6: P.C. 10/-; London, W.5: 2. To display that the University whelming majority. Significantly the who believe that the universities shot'ld D.S. 3/-; British Columbia: D.J. £1/3/-; bureaucracy itself is most unwilling to MASS MEETING Principal made no comment on this be part of their movement'. Los Angeles: M.B. 4/-; Lancaster: R.T. inform students of their statistical chances When the occupying students left the motion; the Administration will con- He went on to explain that these 3/-; Chicago: In Memory BY. £12. of passing particular subjects, and in the Registry on Monday night they went descend to release a few statistics (vetted people were tolerated because 'Univer- TOTAL: £21 17 2 long run of obtaining a degree, because straight to the SRC offices and demanded statistics if necessary) to help perpetuate sities should be free of political pressure, Previously Acknowledged: £676 9 7 these figures, if released, would reveal that the council call a mass meeting of the myth of student participation in the places where people could read, write the irrationality of the system and the students on Wednesday, November 6 and running of the University but it will not and think freely'. 1968 Total to Date: £698 6 9 arbitrary nature of the standards by that the Principal of the University yield to the above motion, which ques- Then the gem: 'Wc must draw the line, Deficit B/F: £566 0 0 which we are assessed. should attend and listen to the students' tions its power, without a fight. A preli- however, when these people think their 3. To use these figures to expose the grievances—the SRC had little option minary skirmish took place last Monday views should be put into action'. SURPLUS: £132 6 9 monstrous wastage, inefficiency and in- but to accept and over 2,000 students night but as yet there is no room for LARRY. equity of the capitalist system of educa- turned up on Wednesday afternoon. The complacency amongst Aberdeen students. 'Denotes Regular Contributor. tion. meeting voted on a motion 'That this ABERDEEN STUDENT.

fW Centra de Documenta;ao e Apoio a Pesquisa cm 10 11 unesp"^ Cedap 22 23 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 32 BUILDING WORKERS CAN TURN THE GOVERNMENT'S BLUNDER INTO VICTORY Strike Against ForWorkers'Mrol ge Freeze! NOVEMBER 16 1968 Vol 29 No 35 THHE GOVERNMENT'S decision Board asked for a further month, rank and file has been slow in get- to refer a 4|% interim pay in- which the Government granted, and ting off the ground. Last month's crease for l^m. construction workers so the unions and employers agreed demonstration was a success and a to the Prices and Incomes Board is to an interim payment. turning point in that workers in the a political blunder from which they While this increase is a modest industry were beginning to grasp Clyde Ship workers' might have some difficulty in extri- one, it does, strictly speaking, with the full implications of the conces- cating themselves. All-round oppo- the Id. an hour cost of living in- sions the employers were demanding. sition has never been so strongly crease given last March, exceed the Rank and file demands on the against any previous decision to Government's 3£% increase in any demonstration were for the full refer to the PIB. Not only have one year. The criteria for obtaining union claim, with no strings, and both the employers and the trade excesses over this figure are very this must remain the same. unions condemned this further inter- harsh and are only justified under The wages campaign has now to Dispute vention, but also 90 MPs have productivity agreements, changes in fight the reference to the PIB. A signed a motion, sponsored by Mr. wage structures which lead to in- delegate meeting of representatives lyiNE MONTHS AGO negotiations the Boilermakers and Hepper, boss of Heffer, a one-time carpenter, con- creased efficiency and productivity. of union branches in the area was ^ * started between the Boilermakers' the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, which demning the Government reference. So even if, by working harder, called by the West London branch Society and the Upper Clyde Ship- was as follows: This interim pay increase was increased productivity is obtained, of the Amalgamated Union of builders for better wages and conditions. Welders, Group 1 12/5 per hour agreed to last month. It gives crafts- It took so long as the employers were Platers, etc., Group 2 11/3 per hour this does not automatically entitle Building Trade Workers and agreed trying to push job evaluation, measured Riggers, Group 3 9/7} per hour men 3^-d. an hour and labourers 3d., anyone to an increase over 3j%. to organise a picket all this week at day work, time and motion and, worst All above plus 1/- p.h. Special Allowance and came into effect on November 4. the. Ministry of Employment and PRODUCTIVITY UP! of all, the grading of workers into a Hammermen, Group 4 ... 7/65 per hour But the payment was only made Productivity. On Monday, Novem- hierarchy, i.e. Group 1, Welders; Group Plus 8d. p.h. Special Allowance because of the delay in publishing Productivity in the industry has, ber 18—the day the increase is 2, Platers, Shipwrights, Caulkers, Burners McGarvey recommended to a meeting the PIB report on the union's wage in fact, gone up considerably. Last stopped under the terms of the and Blacksmiths; Group 3, Riggers; of shop stewards to accept; they in turn claim, which was referred to the PIB year it rose by 1\'%, while figures so Prices and Incomes legislation—they Group 4, Hammermen. Furthermore took it to the workers who accepted the in May. They were supposed to far this year show a further 5% are calling for a one-day stoppage within these groups the workers will be agreement as this meant a substantial have reported by the end of October, and a mass lobby of Parliament. graded again, according to ability, age increase in wages, backdated to Septem- increase. These figures also came and performance. For example, a plater ber 2. For example, the platers would in time for a new agreement to be about with a decreasing labour ANOTHER LOBBY will start his job and will' be assessed, go from 10/3 to 12/3 per hour (11/3 plus reached for November, but the force. Even one of the Government and if not up to standard will be put on 1/- for special allowances), an average Ministers, Bob Mellish, praised Once again, I am afraid, the a lower-grade job, which means lower rise of £4 per week. these increases recently in an article delegates opted for the usual lobby. wages and so forth down the scale and, Furthermore, a new incentive and pro- in the monthly paper of the National In the past we have seen how this very probably, redundancies. ductivity bonus scheme, over and above Federation of Building Trades type of demonstration gets dissipated Needless to say, this is not what the the wage increase, was to be brought in Contact Column Operatives. He had the unpleasant by the police when the demonstra- workers wanted, in fact what they wanted within 3 weeks. When the 3 weeks were task of defending the Government's tors reach the mile boundary. The was a decent basic rate of 15/- per hour up, the workers wanted to know why This column exists for mutual aid. with an incentive scheme on top. they hadn't received their increase. They Donations towards cost of typesetting reference in the absence of Barbara whole impact is then lost. Many of Working parties were elected by union were told by the employers that there *ill be welcome. Castle. those who finally reach Parliament officials to negotiate this claim and in- had been a misinterpretation by .the. . The blunder of the Government get fed up with queuing and those dustrial action was promised. A one-day union over the agreement. Time Out. This new information maga- is that although the interim increase who see their MPs will be told 'Well, token strike was held by all members This brought McGarvey back up to zine wishes to print advance news does exceed their incomes ceiling, it lads, leave it to us, but no more (4,500) of the Boilermakers' Society on Glasgow on November 5 to meet Hepper, of meetings, demos, etc. Time Out, would have been wiser to have been industrial action'. the upper reaches of the Clyde to decide but Hepper was not in Glasgow as he 24 St. George's Court, Gloucester flexible on this, in view of the fact Many of the MPs who are now whether strike action should be taken. had been called away on business else- Road, S.W.7. that they were responsible for the attacking the Government for its At this mass meeting all we heard was where. McGarvey met another director Greek Social at Three Horseshoes, Heath delays with the PIB report. Now intervention voted for the legislation mealy speeches from union officials and of the UCS, a Mr. Farrim, and told him Street, Hampstead, Saturday, Novem- they are having the worst of all pos- their Party is now enacting. Con- shop stewards. In fact what the officials that the boilermakers were not getting ber 30, 7.30 p.m. did was muzzle some militant shop what they thought from the agreement. Read Beaver! Official organ of the Lon- sible worlds, for the signs were that struction workers should not be stewards. He (Farrim) stated the agreement said, don School of Untrammelled Desire. the employers and the unions were taken in either by these MPs or by Failure by the working party, union for example, a Grade 1 Boilermaker LSE, Houghton Street, W.C.2. coming to some agreement which the statements of the trade union officials and shop stewards to get any- (Welder) could earn up to 12/5 plus 1/- Badges and Banners. Rectangular metal would have been in line with the leaders. For the fact must be faced, where with this claim, resulted in some for special allowances—this was includ- black/red badges 2/6 each post free Government's criteria. A new wage the PIB report will make recom- of the shipyards going in for bonus ing the productivity bonus. or bulk rate (10 or more) \j- each— structure with grading and inter- mendations which are going to schemes of their own. The Boilermakers' Society have now resell at 2/- or 2/6. Also flags and changeability of jobs was being dis- undermine the conditions of con- This again angered some of the wor- put a ban on all overtime and given the banners to order, from 7/6. McGee, cussed. struction workers. Stewards' power kers which resulted in one yard (Con- employers 14 days' strike notice. 42 Pendarves Street, Beacon, Cam- nells) taking industrial action on their It looks as though the employers are It is these points that workers in to negotiate bonus targets will be own, through the lack of militancy by borne, Cornwall. the industry should not lose sight of attacked. Grading and interchange- up to their old tricks again. The strike Racialist School Picket; Lewisham Free the working party and apathy among the is due to begin on November 19 and all Schools Campaign, etc. Libertarian while, at the same time, putting up ability will be proposed and means shop stewards. This eventually brought boilermakers employed by the UCS are Teachers' Association Open Meeting a fight to keep the interim increase. of weakening union organisation on in Dan McGarvey, the Boilermakers' being called out. But the rank and file to discuss practical projects. 7.30 p.m. For this interim increase was only sites will also be recommended. President, to negotiate on behalf of the will have to keep a close watch on Bro. Wednesday, November 20, Basement given because of the delay with the Already the unions have discussed members. A settlement was reached on McGarvey. Flat, 23 Ellington Street, N.7. Ring PIB report. Of course both the plans with the employers for curbing October 4 between Bro. McGarvey for ANDY MCGOWAN. FIN 6954 for details. employers and the trade union the powers of shop stewards. The Makhno Poster. In aid of (Anarchist) bureaucrats are angry because this National Joint Council for the Black Cross. Splendidly designed intervention by the Government will Building Industry are taking up and printed. 2/6d. from Freedom bring about a situation that they Press. recommendations of the Cameron Accommodation Wanted. American girl had both hoped to avoid. Mr. Kemp, Report, which will give the unions' —very pregnant but not penniless, leader of the building section of the federation the power to appoint THE SILLY SET-UP urgently requires accommodation. Transport and General Workers' their stewards, instead of them being MAI 5572. Union, put it thus: 'In view of the elected by the sectional stewards. OEGENT TYRE inspectors at Dunlop not controlled, as at some firms up here, What Next? Social and discussion. Free- fact that our three year award ex- The strength of the construction -*■*' Rubber Co., Rochdale, have this it must be limited to meet management men Syndicate. Saturday/Sunday, pired in November, we and the workers remains on what can be week stepped up their struggle for the demands for 240 tyres a day. November 16/17 at Clarion Youth employers had no alternative but to built up on the sites. Strong organi- 10/- a week rise owing to them. Jimmy Higgins, the boss responsible, Hostel, Hadlow, nr. Tonbridge. Kent. make an interim award to avoid sation here is the last thing that the Last week, the bosses acted to counter better not be shooting the shit when he Telephone Dave Wetzel 574 7461. anarchy and industrial unrest in the union leadership wants because this their claim by bumping the required says the lads can have the rise from Schools Campaign. Posters available, 6d. industry' (my italics). It is interest- hourly tyre examinations from 25 to 30. Monday next, if they're doing 30 an each, 5/- per doz. Duplicated leaflets will lead to action. However, action Also, by stopping overtime for those not hour. Dunlop is a union shop and these (two different), 1/- per 100. Postage ing to n«te that on the day this in- is the only way to defeat not only already knocking out 30 an hour. militant tyre men are not to be messed extra. Let us have your schools leaf- terim award was agreed upon, just the freezing of the interim increase, Apart from being a cheap trick on the about. lets and posters in exchange. over a thousand construction workers but also the agreement, with pro- firm's part, to ask an inspector to work The firm has had a fortnight to decide to Interested Person Wanted (Preferably demonstrated outside the employers ductivity strings which will come to the clock seems almost as siUy as pay up. If it's no can do, something will Girl) for second-hand book-shop, headquarters. (See FREEDOM, Octo- later. putting a doctor on piece-work. Do the have to be done. Remember we're doing Saturdays. Phone 527 3988. ber 19, 1968.) Considerable contacts do exist bosses really think »a tyre examined in the firm a favour by marking up the The Crypt, 242 Lancaster Road, W.ll. Now things are back in the melting between organised sites, not only in ly minutes is being inspected as well as tyres, we're not paid to be clerks. November 21, 8 p.m. Mandala. pot. The 'veil of secrecy' which London, but in other large cities. one done in 2 minutes? It's a silly set-up which demands Free the Schools! We are proposing to surrounded the negotiations about It's typical of pencil-pushing bosses to quantity and not quality; that antagonizes start an anti-authoritarian schools The struggle should and can be a demand output at the expense of quality. workers by treating us like kids; that campaign in S.E. London area. Provi- grading and other concessions de- national one, and the Government's their attitude encourages bad workman- thinks that factories can best be managed sionally to start November 1. Please manded by the employers in answer blunder and inflexible attitude could ship and scrounging. by big combines making decisions far contact A. R. Sadiev. 90 Ermine to the union's original claim for be turned into a victory for the The situation for the Dunlop inspec- from the factory floor. This is the silly Road. S.E.13 (or Mike Rasley. Dun- £17 11s. 8d. for craftsmen and £15 workers in the industry. tors is that they must examine 240 oid system under which we live. can 1572, after 5 p.m.). lor labourers, may now be lifted. P.T. tyres in an 8 hour day. For this they I wonder if we'd let somebody ebe Birmingham Discussion Meetings. Tues- In fact the Government's interven- may, if they're lucky, get their rise. lose our life savings in a card school; days at 7.30 p.m. Venue usually at tion has done the trade union The snag is that inspectors here, unlike that's what it amounts to, allowing The Crown, Corporation Street. Fur- bureaucrats and the employers a other places, must mark up the tyres as bosses, politicians and pencil-pushers to ther information from Peter Neville, disservice. Xmas Subscription they're accepted or rejected; breaks and play out our lives. c'o Peace Action Centre. Factory other work reduce the examining time It's up to us to change the rules of the Road, Birmingham, 19. (S.A.E.) A TURNING POINT for a Friend? further; and on top of this wet tyres game, and put the people in control. make the examiner's job even more diffi- If you wish to make contact let us know Workers' control of the factories at least. A wages campaign amongst the cult; finally though visiting the toilet is MUNICIPAL & GENERAL WORKER. Printed by Express Printers. London. E.J Published by Freedom Press. London. E.r

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