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TELL US. WHO'S MAD?

Black Dwarf Vol. 13, No. 12, 28 February 1969 · p. 1 of the scan · 290 words

The scan: v13n12-feb-28-1969.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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• Days lost through lock-outs and strikes:

• Days lost through influenza: • Days lost through bronchitis: • Days lost through accidents: •Total lost through sickness & accidents: Squalid housing. Decaying towns. And most of all - with low wages.

strikes and lockouts put together.

These appalling figures - and the suffering they reveal - reflect the true Britain today.

interest.

DUL...

DWARF PAGE ONE COMMENT We are fed up, Mrs. Castle! Fed up with filthy factories. With dangerous workshops.

Fed up with the conditions responsible for seventy times as much loss of output as all state of It's the same old story. Workers who fight back are branded as wreckers. As traitors. Like the LSE students, they are labelled as thugs, a minority motivated by political are likely to be less closely in touch with the progress negotiations.

claim intended merely as a bargaining move..."

In plain English, strikes, but bad when they support them.

ago. To this end it will use all means, fair or foul, right or far right.

That is why workers will he striking an Fahrare 27 "In major disputes union members are very often more militant than their leaders, a and prospects oft "If the union leaders were always obliged to hold a ballot when using the strike thr in negotiations, they may well find their hands tied by a vote to strike in support o they are saying that democracy is good when the workers opp The truth of the matter is that the Labour Government is making a last-ditch attem to shore up a rotten and out-dated capitalism which should have been swept away lo

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