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Andrew Makes History
by
JOHN MCKENNA
London, ICHARD Henry, An-
"row" reports Social.
ist Aneurin Bevan's maga- zino, Tribune, solemnly, "has driven his ambulance slap through the Bridlington Agreement."
No. Richard Henry Andrew is not a trick circus rider.
But his feat, even when you have untangled Tribune's metaphor, is not the less surprising.
on
Ambulance driver Andrew has made trade union his; tory-history which may have a startling effect trade union organisation. not only in Britain but through the Commonwealth as well.
Oddly, the headlines hovo pass him by.
But his story is us:
Con-
Ilo belonged to the ferioration of Henih Service Employees. One day, he decid- ed that the CHSE wasn't doing the inci of job he expected from his trade union. He joined the National Union of Public Employees,
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The Confederation fumed. The Trades Union Congress dk- cided that the move was contravention of the "Bridling-
agrocment the
#gree meni which officially bury "poaching."
So the NUPE was ordered to hand Andrew back to the Con- federation.
Alkiren Look the court.
case
to
The judge. Mr Justice Wilson, ruled that Andrew couldn't be pushed around like that, and Injunction. granted him an restamining the
from
expelling him.
NUPE
In other words, the trade
unlop agreement by which a
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NOSE-DIVE HISTORY
Graham Wallace concludes "Flight to Glory" the story of Alcock and Brown, Pathfinders of the Atlantic
his companion spinning down engineer, and he died in Swansea
to the Atlantie 10.0000,"below. In 1948.
For the last time Brown Ionelt up in his scat to take a sight, Jubilantly he scribbled д
Shortly after seven that Eight years passed before the morcing, 15 hours after leaving Atlantic was again flown by an Newfoundland, they climbed out acroplane: not until 1927 did of that terrible storm at 11,000ft Lindbergh make his solo fight and glimpsed the sun.
from New York to Paris.
Overnight he became one of the greatest American heroes of all time, admired and praised by millions who had forgotten, names of or never heard, the Alcock and Brown, needed n}}
Yet they wore the very first to*
the forwards and began to descend to conquer the Atlantic and controls, but de continued to hoping
their ople aight paved the way climb, hoping to fly out of the below.
for Lindbergh
all and storm anxi, perhaps, to catch a
others,, glimpse of the sun,
strength
ITKIVO
his
Caught in a violent storm, "
Alcock instinctively righted and the petrol gauges smothered message for Alcock-less than
Vimy and they flew on, with snow. the
100 miles to Ireland. Alcock and Brown's plane gets
Alcock mut of control and plunges to splashed by the spray from the
Alcock pushed the joystick Atlantic rollers., Brown regained what seems certain discster.
his composure and looked at the compass. To his amazement he saw that they were heading straight back to Newfoundland,
Driving show
A
LCOCK regained con- trol over the engines and throttled them back, but he still
mon becomes the "properly" of could not check the head-
A
given union and no other
union is allowed to accept him long plunge of the Vimy to
has been declared at variance wards the Atlantic.
particular case.
F-10
the compass. Alcockt
The two Rolls-Royce Eagles
to find
air wartner
Into clear air
were labouring, starved of air THEY glided out of the clouds
show,
nudged Alcock and pointed by the altitude and the driving into clear air, a bare 500ft. over the restless scas, Alcock Brown knew what had to be opened both throttles. The done if they were survive, engines responded without die released his safety belt and falter, stood up in the cockpit, pulling
with the law-at least in this The needle of the burst into a roar of laughter, altimeter had almost reach- then he swung the Vimy rond
for Ireland.
It is just this point which leded zero, when they left the to the long, costly, frustrating, storm as quickly as they dock strike. Some dockers got tired
Arthur had entered it. failing out the Inte
from that treacherous black cloud only 60 ft, above the
of
Deakin's Transport and General Workers Union.
Another union took them on. But under pressure from the TO & WU, which screamed "poaching", the dock employers wouldn't recognise the rebels.
As unions grow ever bigger, more impersonal, remote and complicated, the situation will crop up with an over-growing frequency,
Elther men will rebel and jain or form a pow union when their minor grievances ore passed over as 100 smali
to
merit the attention of an union industrial glant in the
the business, or flare-ups in form of unofficial strikes
All the gap.
will
"Bridlington
مان .
As long
as the Agreement" can be upheld, "the giants can keep the troops in order.
But it looks 15 though day: may be zumbered and courts clsewhere aro equally likely to hold that British justice and the principle that a man can be held as a "chattol" by a trade union arc not compatible,
As Tribune concluded: "How many trado union quarrels in
the courts must there be before the unions realise that no one has the right to treat a mun Jake
a chattol slava?"
waves.
In a wide turn back on course
Two hours later they were fighting for their lives in a snowstorm
his
They made a scrappy break- fast of sandwiches and coffee. Brown had just turned round hoo his seat to stow, away the
off his mittens to leave hands free for work.
Without hesitation, at 8,000ft, The climbed up on to the empty Blask when Alcock wings and struts were sheathed fuselage, in ice, the ailerons were jammed, and tried to pull him back, but Alcock looked round
the ingine air-intakes "blocked Brown savagely pushed him
THE VIMY CAME DOWN LIKE THIS, BUT IT HAD SOARED AND CONQUERED
It looked like a smooth green field, but it was an Irish bog, and that's where the first non-stop flight seross the Atlantia onded. There was mud. There was aliine. But there was victory.
SEARCH FOR HITLER MONEY
Berlin.
THE officials administering
From Ian Lawson
remains open until December 31, and the city Senate has special law power to paga á
prolonging it.
the property left by must know the exact amount Hitler are determined to pre of the estate. vent his relatives from get- The plan follows a Supreme All political parties agree this ting anything, and the West Court ruling that, Backtes shall Berlin Senato have decided gaden Hitler's Bavarian res Jon a plan that will thwart treat shall issue a death "parti-
their efforts,
Beato establishing omelal residenen
ba, danʊ.
away and lowered himself on to the port wing
The snow areathed his body in a shroud of Jea while he clung to a strat and fumbled in his pockets for a knife.
shoulder
and twisted him round, pointing grabbed him by the ahead excitedly and yelling inaudible wards in his car.
There in line with the nose of the Viny, were two tiny specks islands off the coast of Ireland.
of
In a few minutes they werd flying over the little town Clifden, looking for a landing feld. Alcock spotted a level exponse of green grass along- side
a large wireless station. As he circled round the aerial
masis and ning land.
people,came
out of the buildings and waved excitedly at the Vimy. They were trying drive Alcock and Brown
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away from that deceptive patch
of green, which covered a deep
and treacherous bog.
Alcock
But it was too late. cut the engines and glided down towards what he thought was a smooth green field. The Viny plunged nose first info the must and slime but neither man was hurt,
TH
At 118 mph
THEIR groat Allmtic flight was over-they had flown from Newtondland to Ireland in. 15 hours omi. 57' mínutes, it En avtrage speed of 118 m.ph.. It was typical of Alcock and Brown to remember the cam a faithful mechanice left in Newfoundland. They called at CC: "Your hard work and splendid cfforts bave been imply rewarded, We did not let you down.”
Their
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Heart pounded
Oght caused tre- Hly antico
TIS crippled leg slipped on the mendous sonsations at the time. Thousands turned 'out to" "grást! and the wind them all along their route from tore at his clothing as he grimly Ireland to London. Hysterical inabod this way towards the crowds flocked to welcome them engine. With the propeller only The court will then declare a few inches from his body and at Euston and cooort then in as his that Hitler, a
thigh through the strouts, Nazi and a major the dichaust roaring its his £uco, offonder. And a fine, axed at he managed to chip the ko an
Both were knighted by King (thin: gnarss ext clear the air- Gooege V., Bad Winston A. search for the cash bo
the exact amount of Hitlerʻa
Churchill, then Soorotary of loved to have been loft: by the
éstáie, will then be announced, dictator in banks under assumed
The turkion made him pans State for War presented than However, all do-Nazification, Imamos is now feverishly going courts have been solved In Estimates of the estate have and snap for alt, his heart with the Dally. Mail's choque. for on, but so far only a few mil Western Germany and they varied between £12,000,000 and pounded, with the altitude, and £10,000 at a luncheon given in
rola- the great guide of ky air that their honour at the Savoy. Mons have been uncovered. Cannot be re-established. This £37,000,000, and many
already made to routinely burned to im mean that Hitler ons never be tiver hava The biggest, mystory in what classed as a Nazi Is Western chaltas They include his throat and lungs with
December 1910). when the Ima happened to the royalties Carmany and his relativos can alter the parents of
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Bù put into notions, officials clas 1 de Nasificailon turk photographer.
quietly resumed
Eva
intakes,
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