CHIEF SHOP STEWARD KITE (PETER SELLERS) LEADS HIS MEN TO BATTLE TO OUST NEWCOMER WINDRUSH,
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY - 16, -- 1960.
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I'm All Right Jack
is the trouble?"
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"This new man, he is not a genuine worker," Kite saidi accusingly.
Fancy a firm wanting to fire a' man just because he's inefficient!
THIS IS Capital v. Labour laughed inío perspective in the China Mall version of the "I'm All Right Jack." Bouling Bros. Alm: Stanley Windrush, Industrial innocent, has been duped by his uncle info cfarting work fis uncle's intention is to in his factory. fament a strike, pase an arms contract to an netcolate and net himself a tax-free fortune, The plan is working, Stanley la in trouble....
by PETER EVANS THE personnel mana- ger, Mr Hitchcock, a man with burning in- sincerity in his beady, bloodshot eyes, tapped the top of his desk im patiently with well- manicured fingers.
have only one natural capacity why, there are chaps here who can
and that's dodging the column
Across the desk, a man with nervous twitch in his cheek carnestly: "The was saying
and of tune purpose
anable the motion study is to
efficiently, men to work
their natural
Colc
well within
capacity."
"My dear explained.
break out into a muck sweat merely by standing still
"Oh really," "began the man with the nervous twitch whose was the new mui --tere me and motion study expers,
Walters and name w20
Trouble.
who
But before he could continue the door opened and Fich- cock's assistant enme in looking worried
he "Trouble," but
warned. "Works committee on Jis way." Minutes later, Chief Shop Steward Kite and his gloomy band of followers marched into the
chap," tehock his patience clearly running oul. "These chaps
Hitchcock's office,
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passed
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For those who
IN the blistering noonday sun of an August day in 1833, six men reined in by Pecan Creek, near what is now the city of Austin, Texas. Three merely unbridled their horses. The other three unsaddled, and let their animals graze while they ate their bully beef lunch. This casual act of kindness proved fatal. Indians were watching their every move.
In the ambush that followed Christian was the first to die, his body peppered with Indian bullets Strother was the next. And Josiah and arrows.
Wilbarger next.
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tolerated This time she Tas three man with raddled
Indian cofing. 'The three men WITC horses fed from the
their harves Ezddled, attack, nd, looking back, had roused, a last glimpse of Wilbarger and they were sent back to the With
hts cody patch of ground by bullet a
through
In Petan Crock, throat, an arrow embedded
hi thigh, it was surrounded by
Christian and Strother lay 50 sercuning ravages. Already their knives were
drawn for where they had fallen. Stripped of all belongings and clothing. And Wilburger was nowhere to be found,
the scalping.
SYMPATHY
scoff at visions
Painfully Wilbarger had those managed to crawl to a creek for slowly. water. To shelter from the sun
days, Dews
travelled
Not until weeks had passed
he had dragged himself to the did he learn that Margarel had, And in in fact, died the day before he chade of nearby trees,
wae wounded. And that, at the CL his vision. very moment his his last coherent moment he had bound his head with
ly remaining scrop of cloth- ing-one cock.
'STAY HERE'
Later, he crawled further, And then In the dizzy. heightened-fantasy world ot The search party fanned out, fever, ho had dream. A Safe in the nearest homestead Late that afternoon they care deliriously clear dream in which the three survivors told Sarah upon his body. It too was -no, not Sarah Hornsby--his Hornsby this gory tale as she scalples. The wounded leg sister Margaret appeared beside washed their wounds. Sym- swollen. All clothes ripped from him. pathetically, This frontier wife the bjook-caked body. But it
"Brother Josiah," she said, istened.
was ay Sarah Hornsby had said.
an "you are too weak to go any He was propped against Sympathy was all she could
further by yourself. Stay under offer. Nobody ever curvived oak tree. And he was alive.
with 50 Tuc astonished even to specu...+tiuis true and friends will come hand-to-hand.combat
the setting how this miracle had to you before
Indians. When Indians got late close enough to scalp, their happened, the men carried their another aun
Sarah victim were either already wounded friend back to dead or as good as.
Hornsby.
Yet at night Sarah Hornsby
LIFE AND DEATH
practical and hardworking
crdinary
and
as any other
"I knew you would bring frontier wite in the early nine- teenth century could not sleep him," was all this remarkable Goundly. Ai midnight she woman said as they turned in awoke from fretful stuinber to at the homestead gate.
And somehow she had cry, Wilbarger is not dead! I
Des him. He is scalped, dread known!. In the house
Д
bed
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As his vision faded, he begged his sister not to leave but to stay with him until help care. Despite his sons, she faded away. He watched her go, des-
And even
in..his pairingly.
direction fever noted that the she took was straight towards the Hamaby.homesteadi
What time was this? Wilbarger had only a vague
fully wounded, and dying But was already freshly made up to idea of how much Ume had he is not dead. He is propped receive him. Hot water ricam- passed since the Indians had
up against a large
waiting for help."
oak
SECOND DREAM
over the left him But as close as could. tree ed from cauldrons
be figured out, Sarah open nre. And the had melted ever
Hornsby had
Arst lind her bear fallow to dress his head
Days went by when Sarah dream that Wilbanger was still alive only moments after his patient hovered Hornsby's Her husband, Reuben
between life and death. But vision of his alster had faded. Hornsby, was one of the three little by little he recovered, and survivors. And he knew better. He had been the Indians close in was able to talk. When he was on Wlibarger. He knew Indian able to form the words, he too woys, specially their way at had a fantastic story to tell. For nover leaving a victim breathing, he owed his life to two very He scoffed, and sent his with curious things. back to step.
SPIRIT WORLD.
A tall story? Maybe. But the od thing is that both Wilbarger and Sarah Hornsby told the alorice of their drewna indepen- dezitly, before either had any knowledge of the other st
Evenin old-time Texas. where spirits were for drinking
One was the throat wouă But once again Sarah Hornsby. It had temporarily paralysed had the dream that has since him, and to this he owed his become a Texas legend, and is life. fachided by J. Frank Doble in For when the yolping Indians not for sucing, the truth of their kla Tales of Old Time Toxa had scalped him Wilburger had utrennny story was never (Hammond Harmand, 308.). felt no pain. He had been aware doubted
After her second vision of it was happening, but was numb.
And something else made it Wilberger Barah: Hocstry was of all nenoption: And had, not even more curious.
For Wilbarger's sister Mai #AS PUTO no flinched.
Mimosari VaSDER The Indians had left him for garet lived in derd.
than 700 miles away. - And,
me. Insistent,
there is a God, this aliyoj..
mat
she was spending her first night in a different world-the world of the dead. And the world of- if there are such things-spirits.
~(Landon Express Service).
CYNTHIA-KITE'S DAUGHTER FAVOURABLE TO WINDRUSH
man whose time and motion frightened, twitching face was hidden behind a copy Daily Worker.
1. knew It," Hitchcock thought. They're on to Walters already." Aloud, "Which new man?"
Last
PAUL TWE
returned and Kite spoke: "I occasionally." am obliged to point out that I Stanley had an awful sensa= you sack this mea the company lion in his stomach, as it po Is in breach of its agreement ad just gone down a dip in s with the union."
car. "Well, en Hitchcock looked at his amis- don't. "he stamanered, tani in wild despate. He said: Kilo pressed his invitation: "But surely be's not a unton "No, Stanley, personally I'd member."
welcome 1 like a bit of intel- bad the noswer: Tertun) company." Correct. But that's
That evening, Stanicy
ema!!, uncomfortably in Rite's cican, but clutter and deeply
Kito
salo:
1schalcz},"
"Windrush by name," salą Xlic. in his mispronounced doctrinaire-book officialese.. **I
merely
801
Surrender dated living room. A maer room:
in many ways, full of the empty of Kite's Ha: cheap pier ena
Hitchcock, his face contorted permitting hita to drive a fork into an ugly cariosture of him- past lift truck I would say the set in an effort to understand, china statues,
1 management.
"And didn't mementoes of tong-ro reside аге wilfully to believe, sald: chiropodising the safety of you say he was incompetent and conferences. their employers, What's more he doesn't hold a union card."
The works committee backed Kle's burst of oratory with slow
rody.
couldn't do the job properly?" Smitten
principle Hitchcock's assistant handed jun199
Kite was impassive. He said with simple conviction: "We do
Even the fading wedding-day cannot accept the
Kites not Ltd
the picture of
young that incompeten EE seemed to have a melancholy
dismissal.
quality, the shy couple smiling the future in a room where there was only a past
him a reference end on Wind victimisation."
That's
rush, Stanley. Hitchcock studied Hitchcock surrendered. "In hopefully into it for brief, puzzled moment that case," he said with obvious and said: "But you're abso- relief, "everything's absolutely Jutely right. Of course this splendid, and the fellow's kept fellow must be mcked im- on. 1 think we can congratulate mediately."
ourselves on a very productive
norning's work."
expert
Shock
•
"'COURSE, IT'S different in
Soviet
got to The
Kite notleed Stanley's appar- ent interest in his bookcase. 1te smiled happily and offered him a fat volume. Hero's a good сле 10 start
on-Collective Childhood and Factory Man- hood?”
מסיי
"Very descriptive," admitted Kite. "How they run factories in a Workers' State, But I won't spoil it for you."
There was a struined silence the
Union," explained Stanley tried to look appre and empitness slowly leaked Kite as Stanley completed his clative and said limply: over the faces of the shop union application. They're that sounds fun." stewards Kite, for the first nit working for the same thing time in his long career of the
25 an there, but here you
the boss-class. trade union agitator, watch
got to stand the workers have was unable to cope with situation.
solid."
Stanley murmured absently as he wrote his signature: "Yes, they struck me as pretty solid." "True, brother," Kite agreed seriously. You far to go?"
The personnel manager gave them a big smile.
"Do lake
pow, you chaps," he said with smarmy cheerfulness,
Kitc kept on his feet and redited with grim determination the set phrase he had need so many times before: "After due deliberation the works con- to call a stop- mittee has had
10 our irr page
response members' wishes."
still smiling Hitchcock was out of dead eyes. Ho asked,
trying to desperately pleasant: "Now what precisely
Hitchcock was going to sack Windrush, Kite was fighting back hard, his brain struggling with the problem in the silence of the room. It was cruel. A wicked capitalist Ruthless.
that was it. A trick. Yes, wicked capitalist trick.
Like a man who has just had a severe emotional shock, Kite said in a small hollow "We should like to withdraw on that matter and consul
volee:
A minute later, the committee
"Well, as a matter of fact I'm trying to fod dags a bit closer," Stanley sald.
"Have you been to Russia?" asked Stanley desperately.
"Not yet," he said. A faraway look suddenly melled the old man's lined face into something almost touchingly tender. "It's the one place I've always wanted to visit. All those corn- the ballet in fields and
Kile's round, staring eyes evening
BOITIE tumed on Stanley with
of expression thing like an interest. "Oh, well, I might be
Escape
able to help you there," he The Kite's daughter Cynthia, rald. The
SO DIFFERENT BUT IT'S FUN TO BE A BOY
missus takes In
FROGS and emails and puppydogs' talla-little boys are made of the same old thing the world
over.
The tiair may be straight and black, or glinting gold The slant of an eye may vary, curls. And the skin can range from cooking-chocolate brown to transparent parchment- velium But every little boy's basic aim is the same to snatch a bit of galety whenever and however he can,
Here are three managing splendidly, In their different ways, in their very different parts of the world.
The latter-day Pan piping away atop the high Andes la Peruvian.
The one who exeries hip liquor so well is from-where else?-Pária.
And the complete angler who has just caught a complete whale is Eskimo, From a book of allerly captivating photographs of children everywhere, Called, aptly enough, "Children" (Cassel 30).
Here is
a man
who is
earning
success!
"He's an important man already and soon he'll be more important still. He's earning success because he knows that an alert man, an up-and-coming man, must always be well-groomed.
PHILIPS
His social life is successful too! Girls
and men alike admire a man who is smari, confident...
OBTAINABLE, EVERYWHERE
4
well-chovckpea ulande
Who
the
was, in fact, a spindle polisher at the factory, came into
room, full of dance-hall con- Adence.
"Where you off to tonight,
When?" Mrs Kite asked.
"Up West," Cynthia anith, Stanley
* MES
means of
escape, "Could. I give you a lift?" he asked, trying to sound casual, "In my bubble car."
"All right," Cynthia nodded without enthusiasm.
When the two had left, Kito said: "I was sorry he went so soon. I was looking forward to a. talk with young Stapley. Potentially he's very intelli- gent" And with a sigh ho settled in his favourite arm- chair and opened "A New Light on Lenin" at his place,
Smitten by Cynthia, truly the rilcest spindie polisher he had ever known, Stanley decided to stay with the Kites,
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MEANWHILE, Stanley's Uncle Bertram-a directar Mintiles and Sidney de Veru Cox, who had shrewdly planted Stanley at the factory as an in- nocent but surchite trouble. maker, were about lo spring their big surprise.
A surprise that was guaran- teed to bring the Missiles men Cox's out on strike and land company Missiles' Middle East contract. And a fat, tax-free pront for Unele Beriram, his Associate, Mr Cox and a smiling Arah named Mr Mohamined.
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