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Aberdeen Anarchists an Trial IfVER SINCE ARDNADAM pier, ** the State has been trying its hardest to nail sow® the saboteurs carrying out deeds of defiance in the name of Scots A8a>nst War, and it has finally succeeded in spite of Aberdeen its bungling bureaucratic incom­ petence. On January 7 at about 9 o’clock four SAW supporters (Comrades Elizabeth Smith, Iain Mitchell and two others) made their way back to Portlethen Civil Defence HQ. The Anarchists previous raids had been hasty and i Anarchist Weekly © they wanted to do a thorough search and also render the bloody place JANUARY 22 1966 Vol 27 No 3 useless. The entry was very difficult, more so because the drill broke, but finally the bolt of a cast-iron grille was sawn through, and the lock of an Trial the door behind sawn off. Before the entry at about 10.20, the cables I The Strength to stay to the radio mast- were cut. clear. There was no violence, there Aberdeen YCND agenda. ‘This,’ as were no threats. New police one of the police said, ‘is a free Inside various good maps of in­ methods you see, take a long time country’. There was nothing im­ or rather, wants, through advertising. stallations were found but the filing But can we pay people enough to go to get to this part of the country. portant taken, so good luck and down the mine? . As the ‘FT’ comments, cabinets (to which- they had the The detectives were quite good many worried sleepless nights to ‘All over Europe it is becoming increas­ keys), were practically empty. mannies and one of them was nearly them. hi Bed ingly difficult to persuade men to go The radio and Telephone equip­ converted to Anarchism. The accused expect to get off with down the mines, clear garbage, drive ment were then put out of order, The impression they gave was a heavy fine as it is their first offence, public transport, or do the dirtier and and one of the telephones must have and donations should be sent to: more unpleasant factory jobs.’ There that they watched ‘Z-Cars’ too frrpHE LATE LAMENTED Bonar set off an alarm, fot they were sur­ much.-—‘Ever been in trouble be­ Forbes Browne, 20 Mount Street, f [*;■ Thompson once said 7 don’t see comes a point, in nursing, in the mines, rounded after about half-an-hour Aberdeen. or in the police force (although this job fore?’ ‘No.’ ‘You’re in big trouble tj A why a man should go out to work whilst heading for Aberdeen by a back Just before this article was fj/he has the strength to stay in bed.’ This has other compensations) when the wages now’ and ‘Listen, I’ll come clean alone, especially in a society where road. Two police^ cars drew up with you’ also ‘I make no deals . .’ written, I was reading the piece in f I profound wisdom has apparently never and what followed, convinced the 11 filtered down to file depths where Lord labour is in short supply, cannot supply and 7 give the orders around here’. Freedom (8.1.66) about the TA’s Robens, the Chairman of the Coal sufficient incentive. Increasing mecha­ four that they must eventually They asked them to confess, say­ role in a nuclear war. It is from WBmm Board dwells, still less has it penetrated nization, do-it-yourself devices, self-ser­ triumph over the State, because, ing it would go easier. But they places such as Portlethen that the the murky insanitary deeps where the vice have, in many industries, filled the Christ, they’re stupid. There they didn’t appreciate the humour of the orders for such atrocities will be Financial Times wallows in its captialistic labour gap but where the job is were with sacks of tools and stolen suggestion that the sackful of tools sent out, and these people from mire. especially onerous, dangerous, or poorly- maps, in the dead of night, four Aberdeen have put it out of action paid, or all three, as in mining, exhorta-tt and' maps plus the fact that the The Financial Times carries a clarion suspicious characters, and they SAW agents were there at the time, for a long time. call for a leader-heading *Why Bother tions must be tried, appeals to loyalty! only took their names, saying Until the day when the people to Work?’—a message which is not lost and patriotism must be plugged, or, in I were only circumstantial evidence. final desperation, higher wages must be I there’d been an incident back on Finally they were charged with go out and bury these places for on those who have business in the city, the road, then they drove off. When ever, we hope that other groups of whose principle occupation is transferring offered with, bonuses for production. A ll' ‘theft by housebreaking’ and ‘mali­ pieces of paper from one holder to an­ these have been tried with mining but they were seen coming back 10 cious damage of property to the Anarchists will follow this example other. But the message is meant as a to no avail, labour-power, as the ‘FT’ minutes later, the SAW people value of £750, belonging - to the and do it for them. reproof from Lord Robens for those says ‘votes with its feet’. Especially in managed to hide a good part of the Scottish Home and Health Depart­ Scots Correspondent . wicked absentee miners who are sabotag­ view of the fact that in certain sections stuff before being driven to Bucks- ment’. What the hell have these Editorial comment is on page 3. ing the national economy by absenteeism. of the Coal Board’s areas pits are being bum County Police HQ. There closed and miners are being made places to do with homes and The ‘FT’ deplores the unwillingness efficiency reigned; supreme once health! of miners to go down the pits. Anyone redundant more. who has spent a backbreaking day hew­ For that we coal-users should rejoice They appeared in Stonehaven ing dividends out of an industry, but why at the other end of the country The accused were sent to different Sheriff Court on Saturday and STOP PRESS shovelling debentures and preference should be deplore absenteeism when the rooms and Iain Mitchell tells me pleaded guilty, then were remanded ultimate intention of automation is to do he had time to stidf the keys to shares on to a conveyor belt, humping for background reports. The sen­ Two adults fined £120 each. great chunks of bullion from the vaults, away with human labour altogether? Portlethen, which thfcy had got dur­ tence is on January 19 at 10.30 a.m. envies the miners their.relative Jives of Snrejv tjie mines are the very place to. ing incriminating Juveniles—one £50,One and ease. The terrible accident Tate of those start this process. Where there is the' evidence up a"ventilator. They were When the accused-got their pro- caught short without their collateral, the maximum of dirt, indignity and danger, then ‘interrogated’ for a couple of perty back they found that pro­ one 2 years probation. the man who has the strength to stay in posed leaflets, etc., for the Scottish ominous overhead creakings of bank­ hours. Appeal being lodged. ruptcies and winding-up, and the bed (on full pay of course) merely anti­ Easter YCND demonstration had hammering on the floor of the Exchange, cipates the blessings of automation. I must however make one thing been taken and also letters and an Funds necessary. wreak havoc in an accident-prone City. Jack Robinson . Lord Robens has his supporters in the City in deploring the labour turnover, want from life, can you? As the job and so lost all the best men. This the necessity of employing twice as many became more and more of a muddle, (coupled with the fact that the railway craftsmen as necessary owing to labour and got worse and worse, more and more stock was allowed to depreciate during wastage, the long week-end, the sickness PATRIOTISM DOES NOT PAY of the pre-war railwaymen went to find the war), is the reason why we are all rate, the coincidence of rises in welfare better jobs. The attitude of those that workers, the kind that bosses like. They in this pickle. Patriotism does not pay, benefit and ‘involuntary absenteeism’. rp H E RAILWAYS in this country are remained was one of bitterness as more as can be shown from this article. If The ‘F T graciously concedes that practically finished. It has been never went on strike, that would have and more abuse was hurled at the rail­ the railway workers had used their been a wicked betrayal of our boys who ‘mining is still a hazardous occupation’ admitted that a man working on the ways by all and sundry, it became, in power when they had some we might -—it was pointed out in the Daily Worker railway can, if he has more than one were fighting at the front. fact, almost a national sport. have had a railway system today that I last week, that it was more hazardous child, get more money on the dole than Other workers in other industries were Then came the era of Doctor Beeching was still some use. The public never | than the police force about which a he can by working his normal hours. not so patriotic, they worked harder and who was paid many thousands of pounds had any sympathy, and now has no a great brou-ha-ha was being made.
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