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A C O LD D R A U G H T has started iff a slate of ‘crisis’, and are looking theless their journalists play up toto penetrate the corridors of for ways and means of getting out the 'H ouses of Fashion’ and the
O ne
Fleet Street. The words ‘Financial of trouble. Two methods have been exclusive holiday resorts.
DECEMBER 17 19*6 Vol 27 N o 39
Crisis’ spread from one office to attem pted to date. Strict internal doesn’t bite the hand that feeds you
another right down ‘the Street’. The economies in the case of the Sun irrespective of the cost in term s oftalk of ‘crisis’ did not start at the and selling out as in the possible ‘freedom’.
The cause which is most publi­
time of the economic freeze but long case of The Times. The begging
before that, although purely in question is what is the root cause? cised as the reason for the news­
terms of advertising the freeze A nd the straight answer is ‘advertis­ paper crisis is the so-called enhanced
hasn’t helped.
ing’, no adverts—no papers, it’s as wages and conditions of the printing
The News Chronicle m urder simple as that. The number of workers. W henever the new spaper
brought public attention to the sup­ pages of a newspaper is determined industry is being discussed theposed poverty of the newspaper by the am ount of advertising avail­ opportunity is never let slide to slam
proprietors and the story goes on able, you could have a bloody world the printing workers. Ten to fifteen
from there. R um ours in Fleet Street crisis, but if X and Y are not adver­ years ago the newspaper proprietors
are as num erous as pigeons in tising it’s too bad. Advertisers are did very nicely thank you off the
Trafalgar Square, but one always not too keen on Saturday editions, backs of the printworkers, in com­finds that nearly all of them con­ because the travelling public is less, parison they are not doing so well,
OM ES OF seven members of Glas- Kelly’s protestations. The other more tain just an element of truth. Every note the drop in pages of your Satur­ hence the screams of ‘crisis’.
; gow ‘Solidarity’ were raided last ‘sophisticated' songs are sung often in m onth one hears that a certain paper day paper com pared to the rest of
The fact of the m atter is thatday (December 9) and police have Scottish Folk Clubs.
is on its last legs, and is either going the week. Surely there is not less newspapers are either, a political
fiscated their duplicator and otherSome of the songs are Irish Nationalist
news at that period of the week. mouthpiece, an advertising bro­
foment and literature including all —all about Beama boghail and Erin’s to fold or merge. The Sketch, for W ho dictates to who?
chure, an intellectual exercise for a®es of a Folk Song Book, Irish cause befitting the Celtic crowd with one, has died a hundred times, but
A small fortune is needed to start business consortium, a comic, o r all
J i blican and anti-royalty songs (pub- their flag of white and gold with the it is still there every m orning on the a newspaper, and adverts must be
three. News and information is of
The Sun is still
jsd by Solidarity). Die police have crossed keys. But there are short, pithy news-stands.
^taken away the last edition of comments like:struggling along (that paper has forthcoming to keep it going—other­ a secondary consideration, and toparity, Scotland and also- copies of‘Some day we dream
been in its box more times than I wise a quick and easy death. In be perfectly frank, this is theother words the economics of a priority the newspaper reading
M and other leaflets. Amongst
There will be no Queen
care to remember).
whose homes were raided werenewspaper are largely in the hands public choose, why else the highOr Royal hangers-on
JFyfe, Norman McLeod. Sam Morris,
The Sketch and Sun have now of the advertisers, and they are circulation of the Daily Mirror,
Or pimps
i Selby. Alan Sinclair and George
I Or bosses poncing off our labour.' been joined by some very exalted treated with specially prepared silk Sunday Mirror and News of the
4m son.
More information about the case in company in the form of the Daily gloves. Newspaper proprietors do World ? Do we really prefer comics?
| far four people have been charged next week’s F reedom .
Mail, The Times, the Guardian and protest m ost strongly at the very
( “publishing, printing and distributhe Observer, all are reported to be idea of such an indignity b ut never­
B il l C h r is t o p h e r .
J ohn R ety .
lo f the folk song book. More raids
Hi aryes are expected.
/Ur comrades are charged that they
J between 1st November and 9th
off the hook. This would stop theEmber publish, make, print, sell or
Rhodesians making a last stand fight andibute a publication. Irish Republican
the end of it all being another Congo. So
lanti-royalty songs. This publication
for the first time we have seen a sign of
Jg profane, indecent and obscene’.
weakness in’ the attitude of the South
Tpresent (probably not final) charge
Africans in their support for Smith.
> s under the Glasgow Corporation
The South Africans know that Smithirther Powers Act.
of this affair looking rathdr like a headmaster might not be so kind. There is depending on them and they also
[James Wark, who was charged with 4T ) RETAIN KEEPS THE DOOR OPEN out
D FOR RHODESIA SETTLEMENT’. naughty child who, when called before is talk in the press of the right wing in know that they must not show any signs
Assessing the pamphlet, was asked to
They are obviously
kindly headmaster, is humble and Rhodesia wanting to dump Smith and if of weakness.
Tve a rendering of the title page song This was the title of an article in the theobsequious and, when he stands again in this is so his successor will certainly take frightened of being dragged into the■ra skit on the ‘Yellow Submarine’ which Sunday Telegraph (on 11.12.66). Wilson theconflict and in spite of all their toughamong the other small a harder line.
g frequently sung as ‘Bread and mar­ having made so many concessions to the boys,playgroundtalk have no wish for this to happen.
becomes arrogant and naughty once
garine'. There is a reference in the song racialist Rhodesian Government that it again. Of course Ian Smith may have SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa may not, however, be Also the fact that they mentioned thepo the Queen’s red, white and blue under- must have been composed of lunatics been playing for time and all these nego­ preparedto sink over the issue of Congo shows that Mr. Smith cannot
Igarments. The words are by ‘Celtic’ sup- not to accept them, is going to give them tiations may have been a farce, though
Rhodesia.
This was made rather clear expect a great deal of help from them.
more
time?
What
is
going
to
happenI porters. Other songs in the six-page
he may have been sensible enough to see when a member of the South African It seems rather comic that the herrenvolk
now
isanybody’s
guess.
I
had
thought
f duplicated booklet include the ‘Patriot
that whatever Wilson might give away, Government asked Wilson on Sunday in South Africa should ask favours fromGame’ by Dominic Behan and ‘NAB for that they woiild have come to some once it does get out of his hands the new last to swallow his pride and let Smithkindofagreement
by
now.
But
no;
the
Continued on page 3
Royalty’ by Jim McLean (whose support
door is going to be left open again, andis requested by the accused).
The pamphlet was sold to football -we are going to be bored by more andfans outside the Celtic ground at Wednes­ more pages about whether Ian Smith isgrew up in an atmosphere of the mostday night’s European Cup game between a nice man, whether he is under the
bigoted kind. Referring to the ‘night­
Celtic and Nantes. An anonymous pur­ control of the “right wing’ of his Party (Imare’ that James Joyce spoke of, Brendan
chaser sent a copy to Glasgow’s Chief thought that his Party was all right wing),
Kennelly, an English lecturer at Trinity,
Constable. Mr. James Robertson. The whether the United Nations will bring insaid censorship in Ireland, was a con­informer also wrote a letter to the local oil sanctions, whether they will be able
paper in which he said: “These are no­ to enforce them . . j this could go on for fTYHERE are 8,000 books banned in the wrights formed the ‘Censorship Reform spiracy of suppression involving business­
Republic. ‘If you see one on our Society’. 1 say a great step forward men, the Church and politicians.
thing but treacherous and disgusting ever.
One must always keep in mind, how­ shelves, please inform us.' Thus reads because if the group is victorious in its
The Society intend to sponsor a legal
songs aimed at degrading the royalfamily.’ He further adds: ‘In view of ever, that the Rhodesian Front Party was a notice in one of Dublin’s bookshops aim, Ireland will have shown that it is action next Spring over the banning of
the recent publicity given to singing of elected to power for one reason. To keep on entering its doors. This as one would capable of defying and defeating the all- Edna O’Brien’s novels. It is felt thatobscene songs I think if the sale of jpch the Africans from having any say in the say is the story of my life—the story of the mighty clergy. Before the inaugural there is very good reason to believe thatsong books could be curbed it would affairs of Rhodesia. Sir Roy Welensky strangled writer in the Irish Republic, in a meeting began however Edna O'Brien the censorship board may be acting con­go a long way to curtailing such obsceni­ was dumped because he was considered Republic which the Government Party and was reminded rather sharply that censor­ trary to the Constitution of the Republic.
too soft, and Ian Smith was elected to the Opposition will concur, Pearse and ship is still in existence. Travelling over As such, and if the Society were to win
ties.’
Chairman of Celtic Football Club, a take a harder line against the ‘socialist’ Connelly fought and died for. The Murder for the meeting, five of her books she a legal case on these grounds, it would
Mr. Bob Kelly (the boy from Killane?), government in Britain. These people Machine is the title of one of Pearse’s was carrying were seized by the Customs transform the scene in Ireland, where
the writer is so frequently cut off fromalso condemned the publication. He actually looked upon the -Afrifcans as books on pre-1916 Irish education. Earlier officials.
The Censorship Reform Society was his subject—the Irish people and theirsaid, ‘I deeply deplore the hawking of human beings (I don’t think that the this year during a controversy between
any snch publication. This is a matter Rhodesians ever looked on the Africans the Bishop of Galway and the Minister launched at a packed audience in a sex life.
While I wish the Society the best offor the police, and we shall be getting at ail before this trouble) and wanted to for Education over proposed comprehen­ Dublin theatre on Sunday, December 4 .
in touch with them about it. I hope they poke their noses in the internal affairs of sive schools, Dr. Owen Sheehy Skeffing- Many speakers seemed to take the line luck they must appreciate that they are
ton, a Senator from Trinity College, de­ that censorship in Ireland is so excessive up against the most powerful pressure
Rhodesia.
will take immediate steps to stop it.’
Most of the Irish songs and all the AFRICANS. DON’T WANT THE VOTE clared that Ireland’s elementary educa­ and generalised as to make it unjust and group in Ireland—the Roman Catholic
Of course during television interviews tion remained unchanged since Queen unfair to writers. However some few Church. While there are many individual
short vicious anti-royalty songs are re­gularly sung at Critic Park despite Mr. the ordinary ‘white’ Rhodesian, shown Victoria raised the school leaving age to did pass remarks, that they should clerics who may take what one could
living at home on his modest £2,000 a 14. Joyce, O’Casey, Beckett, Wilde, all strike at the very root of the idea of call a liberal and enlightened view ofyear (which we are informed goes a lot have been banned in the Republic. Not the Church, the State (or anybody else censorship, let us have no doubt where
further than it would in Britain), says all of their writings nor all of the time, for that matter) determining what an they stand basically.
Censorship, as practised in Ireland, isthat the Africans want nothing-to do with but at some stage in the history of that adult should or should not read. As
politics, don’t wish to have the vote and tragi-comedy called the Irish Republic for instance Hugh Leonard, the play­ the R.C. Church’s first line of defence
are quite content to let the ‘whites’ run these people have had their writing wright, when he said that one of the of their narrow policy on the ‘mystique’the country for them. In a very comic banned. This continues with unabated laws of nature was that the writer and of sex. The R.C. Church has a large
scene, one dear kind Christian gentleman zeal down to the present day. Recent the censor must be enemies. One dealt elaborate machine to ensure that fear
actually asked his ‘boy’ if he wanted the victims being Edna O’Brien and John in truth and the other in morality. of the mystery of sex shall haunt every
NOW ON S ALE DISCUSSES‘blacks’ to run the country. Wonder of McGahern—the latter also lost his job, People who wanted censorship did not man and woman before and after mar­wonders the ‘boy’ replied that he didn’t. as a national school teacher. The poor want it for themselves, but for others. riage. After all it is not just censorship
Of course when the reporter asked man was not only guilty of writing The He defined a censor as one who knew of the most lurid sex pictures and photo­
Africans in the street whether they wanted Dark, he also was bold enough to get what was good for other people. Michael graphs that stands to come unstuck. The
the vote they answered, *¥68’, but this married in a Helsinki Registry Office. Mac Liammoir, the actor, said that if R.C. Church has its own particular un­
would only prove to the average ‘white’ In an interview with his manager—the children were not shocked by the Bible natural ‘laws’ regarding contraceptives,that the reporter was a troublemaker and parish priest as is the custom, the priest and by Shakespeare, they could not be divorce and abortion. These are someasked him about his registry office wed­ shocked by Edna O’Brien. It seemed of the ‘laws’ that stand ultimately by theprobably a communist as well.
ding and would he come back and make to him that if we took Christ literally downfall of the most introvert system of
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Mr. Wilson and his colleagues claim arrangements to have a religious wedding. an insurance company was far less censorship imaginable. However, one!EEDOM PRESS at 2s,
that Ian Smith is all things to all men. McGahern asked: ‘And would I get my Christian than a brothel. Although light in Ireland has been switched on.
James Plunkett, playwright, thought that let us hope that this light will lead us
i first Saturday o f every month He says one thing on board the Tiger and job back?’ Priest: ‘No.’
Last week Ireland took a step forward. few people would argue for a system of I on to tackle ‘the mystery’.
quite a different thing when he gets home
to Salisbury. Indeed Mr. Smith comes A group of actors, actresses and play­ no censorship whatever, he said that he.
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My cardinal fault seems to be that 1
won’t accept chargehandship and haveremained free enough to be able to takea less authoritarian viewpoint of myworkmates productive capabilities. It is
my belief, for what it is worth, that thisproject is nothing more than, just anotherstep on the long road to genuine ‘wor­
kers’ control’, and that human dignity
and concern for others should come be­fore industrial efficiency and individualcompetitiveness. . . . No doubt financial
weakness (the disease of capitalism) has
contributed to our present troubles with,of course, lack of tolerance, which I am
sure is inherent in us all.
CONTROLLED WORKERS
Productivity means devotion to thejob. Naturally (we hope) the more time
one spends at the job, the more goods
we turn out; machines are famed forthis type of exercise. My main concern
here is for people, for it has been myexperience, that in any industry, there
are always scores of clever highly paid‘practical’ people (we now have themhere) who make it their sole business to
see that other people produce. / amaware of the elementary facts, no pro­duction, no money, etc., and hope I am
granted the credit of understanding theobvious orthodox economic arguments,
and allowed to explain my views on thecornerstone of this experiment, the humanelement.
It’s my contention that if we ever are
to expect people to feel they really havecontrol of industry, each one of us . . .

T K SMOIHDUMS WORD
tag (played with apt timorousness by
Oskar Werner), might have come straightfrom the pages of the colour supple­
ments. Lolling around the house in her
night robe, his wife (Julie Christie), bears
more than a slight resemblance to thedame in the central heating ads. Here,with its exaltation of the lush and thevisual, the ‘colour supplement ethic’comes closest to associating itself withthe annihilation of the verbal. In asociety which has ‘never had it so good’,
it is to protect m ass, standards of clean
living that totalitarian powers will be
invoked.
This is the essence of the film: it is adelineation of present trends, a state­ment of fear, and a warning. As Pro­
fessor McLuhan- has pointed out, we aremoving out of the ‘Gutenburg’ era; theeye cannot answer back. With the re­treat of the printed media, we lose some-,thing of the inherently durable, evenstubborn, qualities unique to the printed
word. ‘Books disturb people, they makethem anti-social,’ says Montag. We watch
as, page by page, Henry Miller’s Nexus
is licked away by the tongues of flame;
the heat bubbles pop on the paperback
cover of Lolita.
But as Montag, echoing Goethe, de­clares desperately: ‘Behind each bookthere is a man’. . . . W hat symbolism,
one wonders, is there in the fact thatthey still bum books at Battersea Power
Station? One conjures up visions ofsome future sci-fi Marlborough Street,where John Calder goes up in flamessurrounded by copies of Last Exit—Sir
Cyril Black manning the kerosene hose!
Or is it more than that?
Certainly, with the advent of television
on a mass scale there are those who
stand to gain by the diminution of theAnarchist Federation o f B rita in(A* there is no national secretariat for enquiries,speakers, etc., please contact local groups.)
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and Mary Canipa's, 21 Rumbold Road, S.W.6(off Kina's Road), 8 p.m.
3rd Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at Donald
and Irene Rooum's, now at 13 Savernake Road,
London, N.W.3,

R EG IO N A L FED ER A T IO N S
AND GROUPS
ALTRINCHAM ANARCHIST YOUTH GROUP.
Get in touch with Stephen Richards, 23 North
Vale Road, Timperley, Cheshire.
ABERDEEN GROUP.
Correspondence to
M. Dey, 29 Springhill Crescent. Aberdeen.
BEXLEY ANARCHIST GROUP. Correspondence
to Paul Wildish, 2 Cumbrian Avenue, Darneburst.
Kent.
BELFAST. Contact: Roy Mcl.oughlin, 46 Mooreland Park. Belfast II, Ireland.
BIRMINGHAM ANARCHIST CROUP. Contact
Dave Massey, 138 Church Road, Erdington,
Birmingham, 24
UNIVERSITY OF ASTON GROUP. Contact:
D. J. Austin, 5 Kingsbury Road, Erdington,
Birmingham.
BRISTOL. Contact: Dave Thorne, 49 Cothatn
Brow, Bristol, 6.
CARDIFF ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact Mike
Growley, 36 Whitaker Road, Tremorfa, Cardiff.
DUNDEE GROUP. Contact Bob and One
Turnbull, C/o Doctors’ Residence. Stracathro
Hospital, bv Brechin. Angus.
GLASGOW ANARCHIST GROUP ONE. Cor­
respondence to Robert Lynn, 2b Saracen Head
1 ane, Glasgow. C. 1
HARLOW ANARCHIST GROUP. Enquiries to
Keith Nathan, 138 Pennymead, Harlow or John

JJJ® toduatrlal democracy without thecommon desire of everyone to follow
2 Principle*. !f the big «bmlnworktm/
ot management imagine that they cun <turn the whole question over to someone
manager, foreman, the lot, must develop else and go their own sweet way with 4
a mutual trust . . . believe in the spirit their own comfortable points of view,of our constitution . . . a common desire or are not at least open minded to the jto follow its principles, and the moral problems of the tower paid and least j
courage and the strength, to use words educated ‘handworker*, then the whole 1
coinciding with what we feel, think, experiment is sure to fall. For the mg» 1chinery of democracy will not of itself aexperience, and reason ! !
on|y n a
What I am trying to say is, that few bring about understanding, it
among us here, have ever read the con­ machine, it needs power to turn It* '1
stitution, far less understand its aims and wheels and. power comes from people I
principles. Furthermore, it seems to me and if people create bad rule* through J
that, because of our class-based training, apathy and haphazard thinking all that 1
we are inclined almost instinctively to happens is the machine gather* power;*
work ourselves into a position that will and in time the individual become* Uh* ■make us indispensable in the eyes of the victim of his ow.n carelessness, the *boss (in this case the dominant indivi­ Factory for Peace is still a small enough*dual) in the hope that our future is unit to change its bad rules (and th e r «secured. Thus, if we discredit our work­ are many). But as time goes on, and the*mates by personal criticism of their lies pile upon lies in an effort to justify*
work, and demonstrative displays of our these same bad rules, protest will ft,ow*
own capabilities we feel justified. This and the need for some form of fair-piayl
I am convinced must stop! There should machinery will become a necessity
be no need for this people-eating in our the less articulate, then the fight to con-1
set-up. Learn to control the lob in all tain the ‘rat race’ mentality will havel
its aspects, and not the lives of your to begin all over again. As I am sure J tJ
must!
fellowman.
Nevertheless I have asked the MinistnH
DISAPPOINTMENT
What I have learned in fact, is that of Labour to have my case taken befrMH
the people who talked big about ending an independent industrial tribunal, rqfl
the ‘rat race’ and restoring ‘human garding redundancy payment and c o |H
dignity’ either knew nothing of the enor­ tract. I’m tired of playing the gffrnH
mous revolutionary task they were taking according to friends in dispute. F o r ^ f
on, or else, like all good Charismatic am now of the opinion that when the Is™
leaders and con-men seized the right called friends show no sign of applylifl
opportunity and right type of people to that most important ingredient tru tU
and trust is completely dead, reconcilin'
latch on to.
Therefore, comrades, having said that, tion is impossible
I see no possibility of success in practisW alter M oRRisdM

Barrick, 14 Centre Avenue, Epping.
HULL ANARCHIST GROUP.
J. Tempest.
89 Fountain Road, Hull. Tel. 212326. Meetings
8 p.m. 1st and 3rd Fridays of month at above
address.
IPSWICH ANARCHISTS. Contact Neil Dean, 74
Cemetery Road, Ipswich, Suffolk.
LEWISHAM, LONDON, S.E.13. 2nd and 4th
Thursdays. Meetings at Mike Malet's, 61 GranvillePark, Lewisham, S.B.13.
NEW HAM LIBERTARIANS. Contact Mick
Shenker, 122 Hampton Road, Forest Gate,
NOTTINC HILL ANARCHIST GROUP. Cor­
respondence to Brian Joseph, 1st floor, 27
Arundel Gardens. London, w II. Meeting every
first Thursday of the month at 8 p.m., Flat 3,
Colville Houses, W.U.
NORTH-WEST ESSEX. Meetings on the first
Saturday of each month at 7.30 p.ra. at Robert
Barllrop's, The Old Vicarage, Radwlnter, near
Saffron Walden.
ORPINGTON ANARCHIST GROUP. Knockholt,
Nr. Sevenoaks, Kent. Every six weeks at Greenways, Knockholt. Phone: Knockholt 2316. Brianand Maureen Richardson.
Next meeting
December 18.
OXFORD ANARCHIST GROUP. Contact H. G.
Mellor, Morton College. Oxford.
PLYMOUTH ANARCHIST FEDERATION. Con­tact J. Hill, 79 Underline, Piymstock, Plymouth,
Devon.
READING ANARCHIST GROUP.
Contact
Alan Ross. 116 Belmont Road, Reading, Berks.
SHEFFIELD.
Contact Robin Lovell, c/oStudents' Union, University, Sheffield. Tel. 24076.

N O R TH -W ES T F ED ER A T IO NNORTH WEST ANARCHIST FEDERATION.
Regional Secretary: J. Bromley, 44 Doncaster
Avenue, Manchester, 20. Buxton: Chris Berrisford, 10 Byron Street, Buxton. Chorley: Alistair
Rattray, 33a Devonshire Road, Chorley. Man­
chester: Mike Mitchell, 3 Bakewell Road,

printed word and the devaluation of
language. To stay in power, to fool thepeople, the politicians prefer to corrupt,
twist language, distort it to suit theirown ends; they use it like mud. Afterall, it was Disraeli who said : ‘The
greatest misfortune that ever befell theworld was the invention of printing’.
And he was no fascist. As yet, thevisual media are a vast, unexplored area;
their full potentialities are unknown,
but assuredly immense. In the wake ofsuch developments, the printed word
must inevitably lose a great deal of its
power and importance. It is this kind of
warning that Fahrenheit 451 presents.
The closing sequences, unlike the restof the film, bear the by now familiar

Truffaut imprint. Montag, fugitive If*
a sick society, joins a sort pf lite*
maquis known as the ‘book people*
called because they have each comndH
their one favourite book to memory
safeguarding it for a more sane postciM
With great beauty, but without sentjnp
tality, this final note of optimism c li|\£the film. The warm, natural coloUjrfl
the wooded landscape contrast sh*|with the reds and harsh yellows ofl
Polythene Cornucopia. As the first infl
of winter fall, a dying man passes oi®
word of mouth to his small son the *sentences of the book he himself cajj|
in his heart. In human form! 7*
Republic of Plato rubs shoulders’ w |Alice in Wonderland.
They walk among the trees reeiTi
waiting, ready to liberate the worldTJ ohn M ackayj

FILM C O -O P ER A TIV E
T ONDON Film-Makers Co-operative
was set up on October 13, 1966. It
aims to aid independent non-commercial
film makers by making available a poolof equipment and technical advice, andby facilitating co-operation among filmmakers in the making of their films.
It will help to get members’ films seen
by organising screenings and by setting
up a distribution library. A regularfeature of the Co-op’s activities will be
open screenings, when anyone who hasmade a film will be able to bring it alongfor screening regardless of length, costor quality. From these open screenings
will be picked the films to go intoplanned programmes and into the distri­bution library.
Links will be maintained with the New
York Film-Makers Co-op and with Co­
ops and other groups of film makers incountries throughout the world. Films

will be exchanged between continents!
____
and countries.
A magazine, C IN IM , has been sta rte d *— the first number is available at 2s. 6d.—1
which is intended to be a platform f o r iadvanced criticism, and for imaginative jwriting on and around the theme of con-1
tem porary cinema. Given the necessary 1
writers, this could well become the first 1
serious film magazine in the, country j
concerned with the aesthetics of cinema.
A good start has been made, including
all-night screenings, a Spontaneous Festi­
val of Underground Films which ran for ;a week, a week of open screenings, andnumerous sm aller events. Films are now ^being acquired for the distribution
library and a catalogue will be readyshortly.
T he Co-op can be contacted at 94
Charing Cross Road, W.C.2 (COV. 2161).

■ipToylesden, Manchester.
Brenda Mercer, 6
m reckside Park, Liverpool, 6. Rochdale: Ian
Heywood, 16 Mansfield Road, Bamford, Roch­dale. Stoke-on-Trent: Bob Blakeman, 52 Weldon
Avenue, Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent.

EA S T LO N D O N F E D E R A T IO NWALTHAM FOREST ANARCHISTS. Contact
Lionel Donnelly, 322a Hoe Street, Walthamstow,
E.17. Meetings every Thursday at above address.
WEST HAM ANARCHISTS. Contact Stephen
Higgs, 8 Westbury Road, Forest Gate, E.7.

W ES T LO N D O N F E D E R A T IO NNORTHOLT ANARCHISTS.
Contact: Jim
Huggon, 173 KingshiU Avenue, Northolt, Middle­
sex. Meetings first and third Wednesday of themonth at Jeannie’s, 6 Epsom Close, Northolt
Park, Middlesex, at 7.30 p.m.
EALING ANARCHIST GROUP.
Get into
touch with Adrian Derbyshire, 2 Oakley House.
Oakley Avenue, London, W.5.
LIBERTARIAN TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION.
Meetings—discussions—activities. Contact Peter
Ford, 82 North Road, Highgate, N.6. (Tel.:
MOU 5702.)

PR O PO SED GROUPSBRIGHTON. Anyone interested gel in touch with
K. Miller, 2 Percivul Terrace, Brighton, 7.
SWANSEA. Any interested in Anarchist groupplease contact Ian Bone via the ' University,
Swansea.
HERTFORDSHIRE.
Contact Stuart Mitchel,South View, Potters Heath, Welwyn.
NORTH LONDON ANARCHIST DISCUSSIONGROUP. ‘Dolphin’ (back of St. Pancras Town
Hall).
Bvery Sunday 8 p.m.
First meeting
December 18. Subject: ‘Aims and Principles'.
Admission by copy of this paper.
CAMBRIDGE. Contact Wallyjon Illingworth, c/oRichmond House, Devon Road, Cambridge.
MID-MIDDLESEX. (Harrow. Wembley, Edgware,
Hendon.)Anyone interested in forming alibertarian group for- discussion and possible
action write to Nicolas and Ruth Walter, 4
Vane Close, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex.
SOUTH. COAST. BRIGHTON, ETC. Eastbourne.
Hastings, Lewes area contact Alan Albon, The

Stable, Glynleigh Farm, Pevensey, Sussex. Phone j
Hailsham 3.58.
WATFORD. Anyone interested please contact J
Alan Pritchard, 8 Bedford Street, Watford, Herts. I
MEDWAY TOWNS AREA. Proposed Group. j
Erroll Davies, 22 St. Margaret’s Street, Rochester, J
Kent.
WISBECH. Anyone interested write Albert 1
Community, Chaptor
House,
Leverington, ~1
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
CAMDEN (LONDON). Provos. Anarchist/Provo/ ]C. 100/Action group—anyone interested please 1
contact Chris Davis at 56 Chalk Farm Road, 9
N.W .l.
SLOUGH/SOUTH BUCKS. Please get in touch Iwith R. E. Williams, 8 Marunden Green, 1
Hr it well Estate, Slough, Bucks.
MID-MIDDLESEX GROUP.
An informal
meeting of people interested in the idea of J
forming a libertarian group in the Harrow-!
Wembley-Edgware-Hendon area will be held from 1
8 p.m. on Monday, December 19, at Nicolas an d !
Ruth Walter's, 4 Vane Close, Kenton, Harrow,/!
Middlesex (tel.: 204 1764).

ABROAD
U.S.A. NEW YORK CITY. N.Y. Federation of !
Anarchists, c /o Torch Bookshop, 641 East 9th 1
Street, N.Y., 10009. Meets every Thursday evening. ]AUSTRALIA. Anarchist Group, PO Box A 389,1
Sydney South. Public meetings every Sunday in i
the Domain, 2 p.m. and Mondays, 72 Oxford*
Street, Paddington, Sydney, 8 p.m.
DANISH ANARCHIST FEDERATION.
52
Mindevej, Soborg-Copenhagen, Denmark.
VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA. Anyone interes- i
ted in forming anarchist and/or direct action |peace group contact Derek A. Janies, 1844
Grand Boulevard, North Vancouver, B.C.,1
Canada. Tel.: 987-2693.
U.S.A. VERMONT/NEW HAMPSHIRE. Dis­
cussion/Action group anyone? Contact Ed Strauss, J
RFD 2 Woodstock. Vermont 05091, USA.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm Anarchist Federation.}Contact Nadir. Box 19104, Stockholm 19, Sweden
CANADA: Winnipeg.
Anybody interested inj
Direct action/anarchy contact G. J. Nasir, 606
Matheson Avenue. Winnipeg, 17, Manitoba.
BELGIUM: LIEGE. Provos, c/o Jacques ChariirrJ
U Avenue de la Laiterie, Sclessint-Liege. Belgium.

O U T O F T H IS W O R LD

Different Visions‘ Is B ritis h B eef Too Hide-Bound P

D ick (ikhoomv, the American comedian,announced he was visiting North Viet­nam where he hoped to enter lain cap­
Duane was asked to speak behaved in tured US ulrmcn at Christmas. He
VTBARLY SIX YEARS ago—an official
a particularly anarchist or laudable culled the Vietnam Christmas truce 'hypo­jr" o f Dunoon and Holy Loch CND
manner. When apportioning blame the critical’ and said, ‘Wc should adjust thecame to Polaris Action to persuade it tocryo f ‘You too’ will probably be justly calendar and make every day Christmas
abandon its ideas and, instead, to dyna­
and stop killing people altogether.’ Hemerited.
This docs not lessen the fact
mite the Polaris. He would, he said,
that it revealed different sections o f the had previously declined to entertain
leave his boat on the foreshore with the
movement wishing to go In different American troops in South Vietnam say­necessary equipment and we could takedirections and that no good is served* ing that it would be ’like entertaining a
it out. We explained that wc thoughtby trying to persuade people, wh'o un­ convention o f bank robbers’. The US
that the almost certain result o f such an
doubtedly feel deeply about the course Department o f State on being told ofaction would be an explosion that would
they wish to follow, that they should his proposed visit to Hanoi referred him
blow Scotland to pieces and probably
abandonthis for the sake o f unity. The to ‘section 51-74 o f the regulation o f thestart a nuclear war. We explained thatsoonerwe
agree to go our several ways Department o f State in column 31 o f the
our work was to try to get sailors to
the less bitter the parting and the easier Federal Register, page 13,544’. Mr.
desert.
it will be in the future to build amicable Gregory at a press conference, confessed
We argued for an hour or more until
relations if and when our paths recon­ that he was unfamiliar with the section,
finally Mike Nolan said: ‘Well we’ve
but that if he read it he would probably
verge.
explained to you why we think that
not understand it. When queried about
From the position o f a provincial
action would be a mistake—if you don't
attending an LAG meeting for the first ™ political leanings Mr. Gregory said,
agree for God's sake go and do it your­I couldn’t be a Communist, if that’stime for four-and-a-quarter years, theself, if you think it to be right—butwhat you mean. But I couldn’t guarantee
situation appeared thus:—
don't expect us to do something we conthat I might not overthrow the country
Various comrades who had a reason
Isider foolish.’ (in the event of course
some day.’ He further said he had a
that
they
did
not
attempttospecify—
the official concerned’s only action was
passionate concern for the captured men
and indeed refused to specify at a
Eto denounce our unconstitutional methods
on both sides. They had lost th eir free­
future meeting—chose to disrupt a
fjn the local press.)dom, were under foreign jurisdiction andmeeting addressed by a non-anarchist —what he welcomed— they were in no
I This story has a moral for the anar­
guest, rather than keep their battles position to do any more killing. Later
chist movement today, if two people
within the group.
have markedly different visions as toit was announced that Hanoi had asked
The speaker, though he made no Gregory to postpone his visit for a shortihow to attain a changed society, and if
pretensions to anarchism had, never­ time because o f the American bombing.
neither can convince the other, thentheless, attempted to introduce Neill- They fear (says the Morning Star) that
there comes a point when continued dederived ideas o f libertarian education
gbate is a waste o f time and one mustthe bombing o f the Hanoi outskirts andinto a state school. Hoping (and he airport would make his landing unsafe.
Isay to the other: ‘All right I don’t agree,
was explicit here) thereby to instil a Have the N LF lost control o f the air
IX think you will harm the chances offree and questioning spirit in the■achieving anarchist revolution if you goover Hanoi or is Dick Gregory’s brandpupils so that they would not auto­ o f pacifism unwelcome in Hanoi? . . .
■ahead in your way, but go on and don’tmatically accept the society in which■expect me to join you.’they live, and to demonstrate that
| For years the anarchist movement was
A n irishman, on the run for 10 months,
freedom works and brings out the
JpJated, there being little radical acti­
has appeared in Paris alleging that his
fullest possible development in children
vity going on anywhere, and all wefamily has been persecuted by the Irish
and adults.
J?uJd hope to do was to keep something
police by constant surveillance and tele­'Jive. In those days one did not enquireTheauthorities
consideredthephone tapping. He says he broke out in,o closely how the other person enviattempt sufficiently dangerous to sacksupport of the 50th anniversary o f theifeed anarchism; it was hardly realistic
him and protests were overriden. He
Irish 1916 rising but after his escape heenvisage anything good. So everyone
conceded that his work had necessi­ was court-martialled by the IRA andTho called him self anarchist was in­tated a constant struggle not merely dismissed from membership. . . .
v o lv ed (fairly enough at the time) in aagainst the Establishment and authori­■purfous unity, which later became atarianism in his colleagues but also T he Irish press claims that the moon­p s a d vantage.
in himself.
shiners never had it so bad since thetThe first basic difference that emerged
N o doubt all sorts o f intelligent Garda (police) patrols have been employ­H h ^ n the chance o f radical action once
critical cases could have been made ing mine detectors to look for stills.
K gain- arose, was the division between
but those who in fact did attack him Nevertheless technology marches on onB ) e broadly Kropotkinist-Mutual Aid
ignored what he had said and shouted
the other side too, and a raided under­■Anarchist Communists, seeing anarchism
down his attempts to reply, in no ground still in mid-Cork was fitted withcase attempting to argue against his a telephone, the distilling apparatus was
ja s the quintessence o f humanism and co­actions rather than against the actions electrically operated and thermostatically-operation, and those who like Stimero f others he himself had criticised.
fused Spencerean Sodal-Darwinianism
controlled. A Garda officer said, 'Judging
Before the meeting these comradeswith a greater or lesser degree o f Ben­by the equipment which we have found,alleged that at a previous meeting, the amount o f the stuff captured and thetham ite enlightened self-interest.
people who were then present had; Though at the time this division
new methods being employed by thethreatened to call in the police against makers, there is a big increase in demand
appeared to aggravate the past bitter­them. They did not know the names and supply this year.’ . . .
nesses which prevented a re-unification
and refused to point them out to allowo f the anarchists in Britain it was not in
the people concerned to confirm or T he financial times notes (9:12.66) thatfact o f great consequence. Remnants o f thedeny the allegation, but neverthelesssquabble now persist chiefly in the form
‘the upward trend in cocoa has been re­they, knew these people to considero f a vendetta by the more extreme
themselves anarchists.
Social-Darwinians against Anarchist Com­
Either there is an adequate reason formunism. It is no doubt irritating forthis behaviour, in which case there must
Kropotkinists (remembering that Mutual
be such deep conflict as to make it WHERE ‘FREEDOM’ MAY BE
A id was written precisely in answer toabsurdthat those with a grievance OBTAINED
Huxley’s exposition o f the social impli­
should still want anything to do with In London
cations o f Darwin, and remembering too
the others, or there is here a deliberate Albert’s, St. Martin’s Court, W.C.2.
that neither Spencer nor Huxley, nor yet
attempt at wrecking. In so far as any Better Books, 94 Charing Cross Rd., W.C.2.
even Stimer or Nietzsche ever called
Bloom, R .t 56 Red Lion Street, W .C.l.
themselves anarchists) to read such com­ coherent policy seemed to emerge from Collet’s Bookshop, 66 Charing Cross Rd., W.C.2.
CopticStreet Newsagent, Coptic St., W .C .l.
the hub-bub, there was a constant shriekments as: ‘anyone who has considered
Housman’s Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd., N .l.
o
f
‘What
are
you
going
to
do?’
used
to
IndicaBookshop,
102 Southampton Row, W .C.l.
what goes for the anarchist movement
Parisien, 48 Old Compton St., W .l.
in London, knows that those who com­ drown any attempts to explain what Librarie
Shelly’s, 184 Drury Lane, W.C.2.
prise it are mere socialists who reject the speaker was already doing; and the Solosy Ltd., 53 Charing Cross Rd., W.C.2.
WoodenShoe, 42 New Compton St., W.C.2.
call
not
to
try
and
introduce
freedomthe state.’ After all ‘socialists who re­ject the state’, is a precise description of into schools but to pull the lot down.
Godwin when he wrote Political Justice ; It is obvious that if there is ever to be
the early Proudhon; Bakunin after his an anarchist revolution there will cer­tainly be a stage when- coercive institu­ spiTutorial organization, rose In arms
breach with Marx and Kropotkin. But
tions have to be pulled down, and if against the oppressors they could defeatsuch irritation may well do more goodschooling cannot be made voluntary,
the state and class society and coerce
than harm.
must include them.
This might be
the majority into becoming free. One
We now face a new division— whether
thought to be a difference over merely would have thought that after the awful
in the long term it will seem as real as
example o f Bolshevism, no anarchist
it does now *is problematic. If we arc a matter o f timing, it is not.
What is being rejected by those who would now want any truck with suchto continue advancing it will certainly
would not hear Duane—is not the belief theories. But if a group o f comrades,
not be the last such division. In all pro­that state education can in the long term after thought, sincerely decide that thisbability many who now take sides willfind themselves with different allies be­ be reformed —since the speaker himself is the way, let them go ahead and >notsaid that reforming measures could not expect those who disagree to go withfore we are through. Nevertheless thisbe kept within the context o f legalism.
makes the division at this moment nothem, or insist on wrecking all other
It is the belief that in order to make meetings for this purpose— unless theyless real, and makes any attempt tomaintain a false unity now no less mis­ people aware o f the evils o f the state, can put a coherent case that wrecking
taken. None of us who were at theone must work within institutions to such meetings is part o f their ‘Bakunian’Sunday meeting to which Michael
make converts, that this inevitably leads
work. One is entitled to ask why, into compromises, but compromises which
this case, they are not already settingneed not make one the agent o f the about making explosives. Even if they
Establishment.
Duane told his pupils did not learn how to do so at their(as does Neill) if you sleep with eachschools— the formula for making nitro­other and the news gets out the school
glycerine (which is extremely simple) canwill be closed, if you think the school
be found in any public library.
isworthkeepingyoumust
compromise
Against this stands clearly posed the
The new rates are: —and conform in this. Any anarchist who
belief held alike by Kropotkin qnd by
FREEDOM only (per year)
claims never to have made a compromise
the founders o f syndicalism, that anar­£1 10s. ($4.50) surface mailas bad as this, is either a bloody liar, chism wus only possible on a basis of£2 16s. ($8.00) airmail
or has castrated himself politically andthe self-liberation o f the vast majority;
might as well join the SPGB.
and that, therefore, until such a majority
A N A R C H Y only (unchanged) (per year)
Apart from the sheer stupidity ofhas moved significantly in an anarchist£1 6s. ($3.50) surface mailthinking that with the pitifully weak
direction, all activity must be designed£2 7s. ($7.00) airmail
movement that we have it would be as propaganda. Propaganda by the deed
COM BINED SUBSCRIPTION
possible to pull down all the coercive
no doubt, but nevertheless deeds de­
FREEDOM & ANARCHY (per year)
institutions; the cry ‘Pull them down’, signed to convert, to demonstrate the£2 10s. ($7.50) surface mail bothas an immediate slogan only makes sense
evils o f society to those who had <not
£4 15s. ($12.50) airmail both
if one argues (as Marx falsely claimed
considered them, and the possibilities of
Bakunin argued and as Nachaev in fact
FREEDOM (airmail) &freedom to those who had never hoped.
did argue), that if a minority movement,
A N A R C H Y (seamJNb
backed at most f>y an international con£3 17s. ($10.50npcr year)
Laurens Otter

New Sub Ratesversed’, it reports 'the U NCTAD talks jn
New York on the possibility o f a New
World Cocoa Conference have broken
up -apparently in disarray. The fact thatno formal communique has been issued
is taken. in trade sources in London as
an indication that agreement on regulat­
ing the world cocoa market is as far off
as ever. Dr. Raul Prebisch, the UNC TA D
Secretary-General, is understood to be
reluctant to try again until the consuming
countries make more headway towards
a generally accepted minimum price. The
ultimate intention is to establish a buffer
stock of world cocoa to absorb surpluses
and mitigate deficits’. The same issue ofF T comments on President Johnson’scontinued refusal to authorise a new
agreement covering shipments of Ameri­
can wheat to India. This, they claim, isdue to pressure from Republican con­gressmen and will lead to a gap in US
shipments for mid-January. The UnitedStates Information Service bulletin under
the heading ‘New US Aid Planned tomeet India’s Mounting Food Crisis’
ignores this point. Colin Clark of the
Oxford University Agricultural Econo­mics Research Institute refuted in the
Guardian a statement that the world’s
potential agricultural land was alreadyfully utilized. Professor Clark said only
3% o f tropical African land is being
utilized! ’If the Indian farmer cultivated
his rice as carefully as the Japanese, hewould get three to four times the yieldfrom the same area.’ Professor Clark
concludes, ‘The statement that world foodsupplies have decreased in each of thepast three years is a plain error. The
recent slowing down o f the rate of in-crease o f world food supplies has been
to a considerable degree due to deliberate
restriction o f production in the USA, inface o f embarrassing surpluses. This
year, most o f these restrictions have been
removed.’ The Evening Standard, con­cluding its series o f articles on ‘Your
Food’, sums up the available sources o ffood and concludes that they could be
increased by making the land do more,by fish-farming, improving warfare againstvermin, disease and insects which destroy
25% o f all food produced; by producing
protein from other sources, 1c.g. oat
husks, leaves, petroleum w aste(l), algae.
He sadly notes however that ‘Humans
have .a tendency to prefer starvation tofoods which revolt their stomachs.’ It
has been decided to refer to the Prices
and Incomes Board proposed increases
in the price o f fertilisers and news­
print. . . „T he Sunday times (joking o f course?)
suggests referring F reedom’s proposed
price increase to the Prices and Incomes
Board. The Sunday Telegraph carries astory of the group known as the ‘inter­national situationists’ who got themselves
elected to the students’ association at
Strasbourg University ‘amid general in­difference’. They have now announced
the forthcoming ‘liquidation’ o f the whole
student organization. ‘The program m e/
claims the Telegraph, ‘is based largelyon the methods of the anarchist Durruti
who, during the Spanish Civil War, wentfrom village to village destroying theentire social structure, leaving the sur­vivors to rebuild everything from scratch.'

Jon Q uixote.

—

D rugsDear Comrades,
I know virtually nothing about drugs
and the consequences o f taking them,but I do know a bit about neurosis, andfeel that I must take issue with Dave
Cunliffe when he writes, ‘Even thesedrugs are mostly abused by kick-seekers
and Western psychiatry which uses LSD
to brainwash relatively healthy neurotics
into an acceptance o f the values andaspirations of an unhealthy society. . . .’Like the peasant, proletarian, Ameri­
can Negro and other social victims,
neurotics get glamorised by people whoare not suffering themselves. The neuro­
tic is usually an unhappy person who
cannot cope with the world in which helives. He goes to the psychotherapist
because he wants to be cured of his
neurosis, so that he can cope with lifeand get more fun out o f it. -Unless heis bullied by his family into going, he

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LETTER

almost invariably goes voluntarily.
The therapist is faced with a dilemma.
His patient is sick because society madehim so, but it is with this society he has
got to learn to deal if he wants to beable to live a fuller life. T o some ex­tent he has to learn to conform to its
demands.
So what is the therapist to do? Thereis no hard and fast solution to this prob­
lem. Whatever he does he can at least
be sure o f one thing However good heis at his job someone is bound to accuse
him of ‘brainwashing’ his patients.
It would be nice if neurotics weresocial rebels, but in fact most o f themtend to inhabit unhappy private worlds,
which they long to leave and cannot.
They are not much good at fighting thestatus quo, because they are engaged ina sort o f civil war within themselves, andhave no energy to spare.
Yours fraternally,.

A rthur W. U loth.

WILL THEY STICK TOGETHER P
Continued from page 1
Socialists in Britain. They know toothat U NO can’t afford for Smith to getaway with it. Also swallowing pride. issomething that they (and Mr. Smith) arecertainly not prepared to do.
There is very little doubt, that whatever
happens to the ‘white’ Rhodesians,
whether they are starved out by U NO or
murdered in their beds by African‘terrorists', or live in the lap o f luxury forever and ever, they will be able tocount on the support of the British
Conservative Party. There used to be
an old saying, ‘Scratch a Conservativeand you will find a fascist’, and whilst
this is certainly not true of all Conserva­
tive MPs, it is, I feel, of most. Of
course fascist is a word that is very over­worked (certainly in left-wing circles),but most fascists, certainly all in thiscountry, are first and foremost racialists.
The Conservative Party feels that theyshould have kept on talking. Wilson
should not have broken off negotiations
when they were so near to agreement theysay. To quote Mr. Heath, ‘The peopleof Britain are not prepared to see theireconomy (already in great difficulties) andtheir financial system ruined, their forces
involved in fratricidal strife, in order towage an economic and military crusadeagainst Southern Africa’. So the ‘white’
Rhodesians are our brothers and the'blacks’ are not. One can’t recall during
the 1956 Suez fiasco any worries about
the economy being ruined or the wholeworld (let alone Africa) being plunged
into war, for then you sec ‘we’ werebombing helpless ‘black’ people. The
Tories are quite prepared to stand by andwatch their brothers living in luxury on
the backs of the unarmed Africans justas they are willing to live off your backs
here. You only notice the workers ifthey don't work, when you are a Con­
servative, and then you notice them longenough to call them scoundrels. Afterall, if you don’t believe in equality, youmust believe that some people are better

than others. To put the Conservative
philosophy in a nutshell, it is that somepeople are better than others, and theothers are definitely not us.

WILSON
Harold Wilson has come out o f thisaffair so far with his reputation
enormously enhanced. He is the kindly
headmaster, so patient with the naughty
boys. He offers them good terms andthey, scoundrels that they are, shout‘Yaroo’ once they get back to Salisbury.
On buses and in cafes all over thecountry Smith is derided by ordinary
people, who many left-wingers would
think of as raeialist. ‘Wilson should arm
the niggers and let them do the bastards
in, and serve them bloody well right.’ ‘Yes,
it’s their country, why should thosebastards ponce off them.’ God, moves in
mysterious ways his wonders to perform,
and men trying to scrape a living on £14
a week are not pleased to be told by
Edward Heath that folk living out in thecolonies on £30 a week and paying theirservants less than the average person
here would spend on his dog, are theirbrothers. They might be Mr. Heath's
brothers but they are ponces who deserve
all they get mate. People associate them­selves with the Africans who are in aless privileged position, but are having tokeep a load o f parasites too. They feelsorry for them because the unfairness ofit all is so obvious.

VIRTUALLY THE SAME
So now we must wait and see.
Personally though, I would like to see
the ‘boors’ in Rhodesia eating mealies
under a tree, which they have said theywould sooner do than surrender, I hopesome kind o f agreement will be reachedfairly quickly (that gives the African
majority the vote, and saves the ‘whites’
from the fate they so richly deserve),
because it would seem a shame that
Africa should loose its best men so thatthings can remain virtually the same.
JAFSIE.

The ENV Struggle
VX/HEN the new American manage” ment of ENV first announced
their intention of closing down the
WiUesden factoiy, the shop stewards
suspected the motives involved. The
new Managing Director, Mr. Town­
send, was supposed to have been
given the job of making the factory
pay, for the management claimed
that it was losing £36,000 per month.
They said this was because of theexisting wage agreements freely
negotiated at factory level by theshop stewards. The stewards denied
this and the Company said that theywould 'open the books’ for inspec-

tion. However, when the shop
stewards’ committee decided to takeup the offer and instructed their own
accountants to inspect the books, themanagement declined.
Later, the management switched
the blame onto the Government’ssqueeze. Even this could not stick,because the stewards proved that thesqueeze was not affecting the produc­tion of commercial vehicles. The
Company had also received a rebatefrom the Selective Employment Taxof £75,000. If this was not enoughevidence that the statement wasfalse, the 1964-65 , report to the
Shareholders indicated that increased
profits were expected during the next
trading year. AH this evidence only
helped to prove that what was first
expected was in fact true, and thatthe new management was out toThis column exists for mutual aid. smash the union organisation at the
Donations towards cost of typesetting WiUesden factory.
Obviously if a company iswill be welcome.
determined to shut down a factory,
Welcome Out! Reception for Paul there is not much one can do, unless
Pawlowski by Committee of 100 other workers act in solidarity.
outside Barlinnie, Glasgow, on
However the company is now plan­morning (S am.) December 23.
Welcome Home! Paul Pawlowski will ning to keep the, factory open, withbe met a t Victoria Coach Station, a ‘stabilised’ labour force of 400. At
10.30 am., December.24, Additional the beginning of November the firstwdcomers welcome.
lot of men were sacked and about
Accommodation. Accommodation wanted 600 have now got their cards.
anywhere for unmarried mother andWhat have the unions done to pre­baby girl victimised by Birmingham vent this? The dispute went throughCity Council in their divide and rulepolicy while acting as militant the procedural machinery for the
spokesman in Birmingham Homeless engineering industry and at the
Hostels Struggle. .At present on national level meeting at York, theNAB. Hopes to return to made as, union recorded a failure to reach an
paint sprayer as soon as day nursery agreement with ENV on the question
found. Prefers own door key for of closure. However, the union atchange. Contact through Peter national level took no action in
Neville, 12 South Grove, Erdington, defence of their members. Soon
Birmingham, 23. Urgently.
-after the York meeting, ENV
Protest. Against homelessness. Against
harsh regulations at hostels for the started the sackings. The failure on
homeless. Against the intolerable the part of the union, together withliving conditions hostel families have the fact that long service workers
to put up with. To put an end to received large payments, sometimes
the social stigma. To urge more as much as £500, under the Redun­
hostel residents to action. Meeting dancy Act, helped in weakening theto form Direct Action Group. 12S struggle against the management.

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the part of the unions, and their
mistake in following the official
machinery. ‘The day before the firstbatch of workers were to leave thefactory, EC instructions not to strike
were passed to the shop stewards.
Whatever feeling that existed foraction with the factory was com­pletely destroyed by the betrayal.
There is still some back-door
manoeuvring going on. and it is
DECEMBER 17 1966 Vot 27 S o 39
likely that some compromise will bereached between the "responsible”
officials of the two sides. Meanwhile
the management will sack a few
hundred workers and so weaken theorganisation that they can impose
new terms and agreements. Nine
shop stewards are on the first list to
go already.
‘This was probably the only
occasion on which we had all gonealong the line with the official pro­cedure. We are now paying theprice. If we had acted as a factory
unit as on previous occasions and (toborrow a phrase from Carron) acted Q O M E 600 delegates from all pans oi
as “ werewolves” , we would more ^ Britain attended a Conference Against
than likely be in a stronger position 'the Wage Freeze, held in London’s
Beaver Hall on Saturday, December 3.
today.’1'
One cannot but agree with Bro. Organised by a number of well-known
Shop Stewards’ Committees, whose
Carlsson and it is a little surprising, existence
is barely tolerated by Tradeknowing some of the past struggles Union officialdom, it was guaranteedof the ENV workers, that in fact that the bulk of the delegates would bethey did go along with official pro­ rank and file militants—many of themcedure. Past experience has shown, belonging to the Communist Party, theat Fords for example, that this is Socialist Labour League, and various
fatal and that a stand has to be taken other left wing political organisations.
Essentially this was a rally of shop floor
by the men themselves. It is easy towrite this, but when faced with a militants and, as such, it revealed very
the sort of policies which thesituation of the magnitude that faced clearly
political groups are advocating in industry
the ENV workers, it is understand­ today.
able why they took this course, and,Speaker after speaker denounced theof course, official procedure does wage freeze, the growing unemployment,
sometimes pay off. However it is a and the general policies of the Labour
method, agreed to by both unions Government, but most of them were atand employers, which really detracts some pains to explain that these views
from the actual struggle and takes were not held by the ‘ordinary’ tradeaway the initiative from those taking unionist who, it was claimed, was either
apathetic or even supported the policies
pan.
of Wilson and Gunter. Not surprisingly,
Union organisation that existed at therefore, the policies put forward com­
ENV was one that had won some of pletely left out of account action by the
Hainault Road, Leytonstone, E .ll.
the best conditions and wages of £27 ‘ordinary’ trade unionist.
NO BACKING FROM EC
3 pm . Sunday, December IS.
for a 40 hour week. The manage­
Conference had before ii a lengthy
Free University. The Creative Uni­
The North t London District ment did not like this and the AEU •Declaration of Purpose’ sponsored byversity of S.E. London is currently Committee of the Amalgamatedleadership were embarrassed by it the conference organisers and obviously
being set up for courses in radical,
inspired by the Communist, Party’s in­progressive and unconventional sub­ Engineering Union did instruct their when they could only negotiate 3% dustrial section.
This purpose wasjects, and inbites all intellectuals, members at ENV to strike when the package deals. Carron does not like defined as calling on the Government ‘toartists, social reformers as students first sackings took place. Endorse­ this any more than the management, abandon the credit squeeze and restore'
or instructors. Please send 2/6 blank ment y/as sought from the Executive. and to expect him and his bureau­ full employment’. ‘Pressure’ to achieve
Council, but when Reg Birch iftoved crats to win the day for their mem­ such a change of policy was to be built
PO for details. •Box 45.
Work. Urgent; young couple, both a morion in support, he - got no bers was a mistake. This is a mistake up by means of resolutions from all
graduates, seek any work in which backing.
that too many make and too few sections of foe movement, culminating inthey can be together (for personal
Geoff Carlsson, Chairman of the learn from,a National Week of Protest in February.
t
P .T ^
reasons this is more important than ENV Shop Stewards’ Committee, has ^Resistance, No. 1. London Shop Stew­
This line was furiously opposed by a
the money). John Tittensor, 103a written about the lack of action onards Defence Committee.
small group of Trotskyists whose own
Camden Roaid, London, N.W.l.

Contact Column

EorWorkers’Control

Talking About
the Wage Freeze
group proposed that the workers thcnjli
selves should organise and take action i
defeat the Prices and Incomes Act, £it was tacitly assumed by both groups l
the workers could not, or would not, \action purely on their own behalf.
I have no wish to decry thisference. Many of the speeches w’made by men and women with a Iftime of experience of the work
struggle, and many showed a rcfreshL
realism. The situation is grim, i r
Trade Union Movement is almost pr
irate before the State’s attack on fef
trade union rights. The standstill pen*of wage freeze is almost over, six mill!
workers have been deprived of negotiqjf
wage increases and we are now enter
the period of "severe restraint’ when othose on about £10 a week will qualj
for a few shillings a week wage inerc
Yet all the resen tiftent which this sitiron has created has still not develo
into any serious industrial opposition!
It is this virtual paralysis of
million organised trade unionists,
apparent inability to do anything motf
positive than pass critical resolutions?
which is the real cause for alarm in the’working-class movement today.
Under these circumstances it is surely)
the task of militants to encourage every*
action (even foe smallest), by foe workers
themselves against the Government. To 1
preach reliance on foe Labour Party— 'Right or Left—to get us out of trouble is
not only wrong, ridiculous and essentiallyfutile, it also runs counter to the ex­perience of the ‘ordinary’ trade unionist,
who today feels absolutely disgusted with
politicians of all breeds. This is provedby foe growing volume of trade unionists‘contracting out’ of the political levy,
something which, incidentally, foe politi­
cal dement at this conference were verymuch opposed to.
The job today is not to sustain foe
rapidly dwindling faith in political leaders
but to develop this disgust into a posi­tive confidence that foe workers them­selves—if they have a. mind to—can not
only smash the Prices and Incomes Act
but can eventually build that co-operativesocialist society which, it is clear fromthis Conference, still inspires the shop
floor militants.
JJL g§

policy was, however, essentially the same
Chris and Sandy Broad,- also Geoffand was summed up in the repeatedNichoUs.
Please contact Sally
slogan to ‘make the Lefts fight’. This
Mitchison, 6
Dovecot Road,
meant, they explained (to a largely in­
Edinburgh, 12.
credulous conference) -that a nameless
Accommodation, Young couple (withgroup of Left Wing Labour MPs should
two small sons) urgently need 3-room
repudiate Wilson, ‘seize power’ for them­s.c. flat at reasonable rent. Willing
selves and proceed to solve all ourandfile
workers
to
help
you
cut
their
H
R
.
JOHN
DAVIES,
Director
Generalto decorate, baby1' mind,' help in"problems by ‘nationalising all the basic
I of die' Confederation of British o\yn. throats.'
house, garden, etc. Box 42.
industries’.
Mr.
Callaghanattended
his
first
meet'
Industry,
addressingtheLaw
Society’s
Accommodation. Martin and Sue Gilbert
The Declaration of Purpose never told
seek unfurnished accommodation in commerce arid, industry group stated, ‘In ing of the National Economic Develop­ us what we were to do if the Government
Greater London .area — consider our economic situation in this country a ment Council on Wednesday, December ,free-for-all is a great peril. You will :M.~, Members of the NEDC wanted to didn’t change its policies; and thesharing .— phone PARk 4701.
Accommodation wanted. Tourist accom­ have to have something' which brings kqow the/iGovemment’s proposals for Trotskyists never told us what we weremodation wanted. Australian woman, about self-enforced discipline without public spending 1967-8- The Chancellor to do if the “lefts’ declined to stage thistravelling in Europe needs CHEAP legal restraint. You have -got to plant could not give any definite figures as comical coup tfelca in Parliam ent. Neither
accommodation in London for ap­ responsibility for achieving self-imposed proposals were still being worked out,
proximately four weeks in February, discipline on those whom you seek to be but he welcomed any ideas for making
1967. Prefer relatively central loca­ responsible'. He then went on to say, sayings in foe future. Frank Cousinstion. Would 'also like companion ‘It would $eem that the kernel' is this; CT&GWlj) suggested that theG overn-it may well be that great damage is done ■mettt might look at foe level of defence
for travels in March. Box 43.
Accommodation: Bristol anarchist sympa­ to the nation a n d . individuals by the spending, and from .foe management side
PRESS FUND
thiser, studious, responsible, tee­ complete liberty of action for exercising (patne the suggestion that spending on
WEEK 49, DECEMBER 10, 1966:
totaller, needs bedsitter in Bristol. irresponsibilty of workers or groups of Welfare’serving-should be examined andExpenses: 49 Weeks at £80:
£392
Clifton, Redlands, Hotwell area pre­ workers.’ )n other words something has that some of the more ambitious im­
got to be done about the ‘bloody-minded provements should be postponed,
Income: Sales and Sob&c£27S
ferred. Large house. Box No, 44.
Mr. Callaghan stated that foe impor­
Fair bed-sitter and workers’. Whilst not advocating legal
DEFICIT:£1129
separate kitchen, basement, own -restraint Mr. Davies believes that ‘some tant and over-riding objective was toentrance. Camden Town. - £5. Suit device’ has got to he found, whereby right foe balance of payments'. He also
London, W .ll: D.H. 9/-; Harlow: K.N.
quiet couple, married or not. John workers are encouraged to join a union assured everyone that foe Government7/-; Aberdeen: Anarchist Group 3/-;Tittensor, 103k Camden Road, and then the unions take the responsi­ recognised foe. need for adequate profits,bility of disciplining their members.
otherwise there would be no 'investment,
London, W.2: S.P. 2/6; Newcastle: BP.
N.W.l: Any time.
,
T; ;Mr. Callaghan, Chancellor of the
SWF Social. In support of FUL Exchequer, has a similar point Of View. and without investment there qould be disadvantage in the process of collective y>/9; London, N.W.1: J.T. 10/-; Bangor,
N.I.: J.T. £5; Wolverhampton: JJC.W.'
Defence Fund. Saturday, December Whilst accusing the Tories of wanting to no real improvement in foe growth rate. bargaining.
Cutting right through foe financial
The whole stinking system is one big 2/-; J.L.* 3/-; Cheltenham: L.G.W.* 10/-;
17, 8 p.m„ at “Lucas Arms’ (upstairs make the Government declare war onroom), 245 Grays Inn Road, W G.l. the unions, Mr. Callaghan said: ‘Any jargon, Brother Jim is playing capitalist racket, b ut I’m afraid it’s no use quot­ San Francisco: Bay Area Group Proceeds
Admission 2s. 6d. M.C.; Desmond attempt to change the law relating to economics with foe ’big boys’, profit can ing foe usual cliches ‘under socialism it of Fiesta November 26 £35; Liverpool:
only come from one source- ‘labour will be different’ or, 'in. a, -free society all H U J . £10; Bristol: LP. 3/3; Watford:
MacDonald.
trade unions, to which / am not neces­. Exploit that to foe fullest advan­ will be well’, as at foe moment there are I.R. 8/-; Wellington, N22L: R.H. £2.
Fund Pgicmjy Party. In Aid of the sarily opposed (my italics) must be done power1
tage and profit is assured.
TOTAL:£SS' 6 6
not very many people interested in a
Easter Anarchist Meeting 1967, with the full consent of those with whom
In its evidence to foe Royal -Com- different sort of spcfety.-we._are still foe. Previously Acknowledged: £1019 1 10
8 p.m. to 1 ajn., Saturday, December ■you are working or the attempt will fail.’ mission
on foe Trade. Unions, „:foe ‘odd pries’.: Many pay lip servi.ee to our17; 1966; 13?; Savernake Road,
Jim lad, you have the' consent ’of ■ National Union of Sqjuaen point out that1966 Total to Date: £1074- 2 4
London, N.wf3!j ’ Admission five chose with whom you are working’, i.e. company ^law gives shipping companies ideas, many realise foe madness of pre­sent-day.,, society, then one is forced toshillings (and bring a bottle).
motor car manufacturers, the C ity the foe privilege of maintaining, bidden pose the question. So%.
•Denotes Regular Contributor.
V yon wish to r nlrf cowtsrt let ns know. shipowners, surely you don’t expect rank reserves and therefore puts focm at a
■ B ull C hristopher.'
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