-
Page
IS
"Boy, this is what I call fun!"
YOUR WIFE
BEATING
YOU?
riot with a stick, but
with_a_wage packet, „per- Strange,
haps? For
only a *report
with the 'sixties few weeks old, a is published that
shows a dramatic increase in wives who go out to work ...a much bigger increase than
the kind
of men
anyone suspected who
There are now FOUR MIL- LION
Britain
working wives in resent it.
alone. The
other
weck malo complacency
took. 3
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1960.
I'm All Right Jack
THIS 19 the, China, "Mall' version of "I'm All Right Jack," the Boulting Brothers' film that ponotrates with chuokiaa" the present · Industrial philosophy. Windrush, an employer's' nephew, has been duped by his uncle into starting work in his factory-hla uncle'a plan being to foment trouble and pass an arms contract „to shaumoolate, making 2100,000 tax trea profit. For the moment Windrush is out of trouble with the chief shop steward-in fæst he le lodging at his homa..
A good day's work for a fair day's pay -now that's being really provocative BY, PETER EVANS UNCLE BERTRAM prepared to hot
up the campaign to push his workers into the strike action which would line. his pockets with a cool tax-free fortune.
He had decided to give an after- dinner speech in the factory canteen, to celebrate the important new arms con- tract the firm had signed with a Middle East Power.
His speech was cun- ningly designed to incite the workers". hostility. Flanked by the amiling Arab Muhammed and Cox- who were to share the fat profit if Missiles lost the contract to Cox's company- Uncle Bertram called for silence.
The price
AGITATED
TERRY-THO
· Windrush (las: Cormickadi) breaks, for ton with his industris) tutor Knowles (Victor Maddera)
brothers," he declared sadly, "You may think
me
"in categorically delineat. awful fool but what are ing that speech as bare you doing?" faced provocative of the -workers."
The man with the build of a beanpole said: "On a point of order, Brother Chair. I would say we're left with no option,"
"Hear; hear," sang the shop stewards automatical- ly, wondering what Bean pole was talking about.
he
to
Stanicy was natvely delighted at the man's Interest in his work. "Oh, I'm shiftin These rates from the stores for lond- Ing."
"I see. One crate at a time. suppose that's all the truck will take?" Waliers suggested çagöl- ly.
"Oh no, not on your lite." said Stanky airily, "That's just the way we usually dorit. I could take two at a time Three, oven."
Walters played surprised.
"Really?""
"Yes. I'll show you it you like."
"Oh, I don't believe it," Wal- ters egged him on artfully, his face twitching excitedly.
"Ail
around their favourite in the playground.,
PARY THODE
Deanpole glared down at these Stanley "Looking schedules, I'd say you was working like a ruddy black,"
"That's" "exclaimed Kito with the red, empty" pleasure of a ligeaw puzzler who has discovered the last plece fits. "You heard what old Trace- purool said in his speech about working with coloured labour?
"You can see their polley, brothers making these Jobs such a sweat that only the -bincks would take them."
He turned on Stanley engrity: "The next thing is we'll have the blacks here doing our jobs like on the busca in Birmingham," he shouted, his years of reading Lenin' and Stalin hissing out of him like bad air from a punctured lyre,
"Come on Kitey, what we Hanna do?" Knowles demanded.
Come straight out, I'd say."
"Us come out?" Kite 10- peated with heavy sarensm. "I tell you, brothers, EVERY- ONE'S COMING OUT."
All wrong Jack
The next morning, Cox and the smiling Arab ́ Mohom- med listened to the news as they drove to Cox's factory, Union Jack Foundries, in a sleek, shia-.......... teacher Ing Bentley. Mr Mahammed's Government had cancelled its contract with Missiles.
In
Kite said: "My purpose convening you is to lay before you certain facts. I have here à plece of paper which purports to contain new limings directly affecting the rates for the tob you are doing.",
"But this valuable order
will
fortunately not be lost to Bri- tain," the remote," unemotional tones of the announcer said. "It was revealed this morning that
the contract has been reallocated to Union Jack Foundries Ltd, of
He paused and looked at the Clapton." silent, ashen faces encircling him. "And it quite definitely "It's in the bag," Cox constitutes a definite breach of chuckled. the existing agreements existing between management and the unions
"Your Government forks out the extra £100,000 for us to do the job, and you and me and old Bertram split it, one two, three. Easy,"
It was confused, but totally effective, Knowles was the first to recover from the shock. "Here, Kiboy. How did they re-time the job without any of lips. For as they approached us knowing?".
The strike
But the chuckle died on his
the Unton Jack Foundries, long, steady stream of workers could be seen coming out of the main gates.
"Correct, brother," Kite con-
Cox braked lo
neck- reded knowingly, "Which bringa snapping stop. Glistening beads fore- right, I'll prove it" me to a very serious matter of sweat already on his Stanley rode of briskly while Brother Windrush, did you or head. Cox sprang out and Waiters fabbed at his stop. did you not corroborate with the grabbed the first man he could.
management yesterday" "after-" noon in this matter?" -
"Here, what's going on?" Ho densanded rudely.
"Export or die is no empty phrase, my friends. We must produce and sell our goods at the right
The timing prices. If we fail to do that; the result would be, starva- tion" said Uncle Bertram
Kite gave than the lead. who Was clearly many
"We must be ellicient." "Precisely brothers," meats from starvation him- Bertram went on remorse said. "Up to now we've been self.
-lessly. "We must all be pre- bending over backwards to To do that," he went on, pured to give a good day's be placatory to the mana us his audience shifted rest work for a fair day's pay. gement, but if I am
must be pre- uscertain the sense of this lessly amid a low rumble of All of us
our meeting, from now on-no outraged mutters, "To do pared to work with
irrespective of concessions,” that, means the elimination fellows
they belong to The first part of Uncle of all slackness The great whether ness of this old country of another union, even an- Bertram's plan to close his factory with a strike had ours was built on honesty, other race." hard work and a sense of
gone well. And Mr Waiters, duty, An. ideal which, I'm
the face-twitching Time and
"Ahr Kita tell on the caring. Motion expert, had now
phrase like a poor prospector afraid, may of us have lost sight of."
The works committee managed to get. Stanley
THE FOLLOWING morning, who has struck gold. "I think ought to know, brothers, Hitchcock, the personnel had an emergency meeting Windrush, the blunted pawn
a copy of the new and radically you after
that this so-calfed other chap TOMORROW: Uncle the in
Bertram's plot, sperded-up loading schedule manager, his beady eyes immediately
fear. us he speech.
alone and with evil flattery based on Stanley's proud effort was in fact the new Time and bright with
Motion man introduced by the "Brothers, this watched the works com-
means was persuading him to in-was presented to Kite.
management."
The great Minutes later, eyes popping, mittee huddled in silent trouble," Chief shop stewart
The drivers turned "I'm rather n new boy Kite was in the fork lift shed,
lock fury, realised that his policy Kite spoke like a pacifist
summons Stanley accusingly. "But of playing-bal! with the politician who realises that round here," Walters said, blowing his shrilling
to stup work. The drivers, here," he protested. "I wasn't unions
crumbling war is suddenly inevitable. his pockets heavy with Stanley included,, gathered like working any harder-just a rapidly,
"I have no
many hesitation, stopwatches and notebooks. 50
eager schoolchildren bit quicker."
The meeting
hefty knock with cles of the right of women to the
news from St Albans work or equal rights for women. that most of that town's A few sald: "It is lazy to stay. local government was in the at home." particularly when the children have grown up. There hands of women. Day, by are two main groups of working day women take a bigger wives. The newly married who part in life, whether they carry on un!!1 their familles those in the late aro latch-key wives who do arrive, and part-time jobs to add to the forties who return to work when the children have Anished family's income, or career school. women with an aya on jobs
One employer, who owns a never before captured by number ut fashion shop", female conquest, Bracing reported to Dr Klein: The himself, our expert on the older married women do the
crease his tempo of work. latest most conscientious work. Because subject analyses the news.
by.
Trevor Evans
jol to the average young people is something to be got over quickly so that they can Then enjoy themselves.
AN INTEREST
Sixty per cent of the working wives sald their husbands ap-
hug-
IN Britain we have going out to work. But the thun
reached the surpris- Lands themselves, ingly high level of one were not quite no positive.
however,
wife in every three con- Many of them made cost→
ditions.
tributing to the family as the home
It was all right as lơng
budget.
That is much higher than the last census sug gested. It calculated one in four.
or the childreri were not neglected. Sound of the discrepancies in the answers
given by wives and their hus- bands, imply that it was the wife who made up her mind to take job, and the husband's mis- givings were overruled.
One of the most surprising Dr Viola Klein, of the London disclosures is that, generally
School of Economies, recently, speaking the better of a hus- published A fascinating study band is the less he objects to his called "Working Wivor"=
wife laking up a job of her own.
It falls natically into three And one of the most refresh parts, each aboorbkig in its way: jng interviews of all come from
well-off man of 47 who tolt Why wires go out 10 Dr Klein enthusiastically: "It's given us a fresh interest, almost As though, we were starting What their think of it all; and
worke
husbands
• "The altitude of men generally,
again."
Dr
WIS
watch. A few minutes lator. Stanley returned with a pile of crates on his fork lift truck.
"There," he sold in proud triumph.
The copy
"Me?" Stanley sald startled. "Of course not, I was all by my- self loading. Oh-yes, except for with some other chap."
on
"On strike, mate, Sympathy
man Missiles," the
sald without stopping or looking or
The strike was spreading.
compromise.
-(Landen Express Serpico).
Now it's official - the Bomb
AN
N entirely new type of warship is about to join the British Fleet. She is the commando-carrier Bulwark. Soon she will be ready to whisk 1,600 Marines about the world and set them ashore with the couple of dozen helicopters and the flotilla of landing craft she can carry,
The Bulwark will be the latest thing in "conventional weapons," which is significant, because it is these that Mr Harold Watkinson's forth- coming Defence White Paper will stress.
Since Mr Duncan Sandys.
departed for the Ministry forces subservient to his of Aviation to the subdued Blue Streak rocket project, cheers of admirals, gencrals which he himself na Minis- and air marshals, British tor of Supply, had fathered. defence policy has been re- This was to be the British examined. And the que answer to aggression, tion now being asked in Whitehall ist have we got our defence plans back to
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A RESERVE
Klein concludes "The front? HALL the women who work most plausible explanation
The over- today are married.
seems to be that the views of
Hitherto it has always whelming reason for taking up unmarried men are influenced
assumed that Com been dld.
munist expansion could be
a full-time or a part-time job by what their
mothera
is not enough
By TOM POCOCK
several
are
nuclear
LONDON
$190
A
struck the British Isles and a answer 10 aggression. They full-scale attack was wrongly would not have 10 belleved to be under way. sledgehammer to crack u aut
And any move away from a Submarine borne, rockets, nuclear apocalypse is a move in having ΠΟ vulnerable fixed the right direction.
basen, need Fa Gred only when the state of war has been con- firmed.
submarines with 10 nuclear-headed rockets home travel 1,000 miles could, they claim, provide the entire neces- sary British deterrent.
in commission, although to be launched underwater pad One force?
nono has yet ventured watera..
The measure
But is the Bomb enough" Could the Government reply to the invasion of some far-away" country with Intercontinental ballistic missilca?
One of the greatest Western In at sea. Were an weakness
aunounce Aggressor to
that marine
U-bontà. the Frr
defence has improved
ds cash. This helps to get the which for them roprenents the luxuries improved
of fe in providing secird nurm of their clars. They kept in check by the Anglo- unless Britain agreed to ignore amazingly since the end of the major advantages
çducation for the will expect their wives lo act as American ability to his expansion in, say, chlidren, betler furniture or their mothers did-to run their better family bolldays.
homes, lead a fair socini to obliterate Russian cities East, British shipping would be Technically, the Allied havies
and possibly do some voluntary with nuclear bomba and attacked by submarinos-what have the measure of the conven- It is significant that hardly work. But not to be gainfully rockets.
- would wo`do? any sold they were working to employed." escape real penury.
Porhapa marriage will bring a Blue Streak
on
womens-Isave
But money is not the only change to their views. But Dr Incentive. There is boredom at Klein niklu. "Those who are home, not enough to do with the married-and-married perhaps advent of labour-saving mulp to profesional ment, and the need of social adjusted their views to their stimulus through meeting fresh present circumstances and de- people.
bend
preconceived But there was na urge for ideas of a woman's place." emoneipation among Thom Whatever men thinte dhout married women, nor did any of them echo the old suffragette working wives, one forecast kan be made fairly conddently. The towards the ***** (* *Working Wives" by Viala Present trend
Klein, Institute of Personnel women will continue.
greater employment of mprried Management, 7x. 08.)
*(London ampren Bervice),
*This
If such a Great Deterrent wero eventually decided upon. it would mean the transfer Each boat would cost £17,000,000, but, it is of the main striking power from
the RAF to the Royal Navy, Anglo-American anti-sub argued, would have theso
Such rojiggling of the over. the
Services, It le romëtimes auid, Blue Stroak.
calls for the merging of tho FIRST, whereas the Blue three into a single force.
considered and 10- Streak, based on
Britain, will has been
joctod,
bo The solution may tional submarine. It is the be able to cover only European nuclear Aubmarino with an Russia, the mobile missile us to make the First Sea Lord, the the Chief of the CIGS and Would tho sinking of underwater speed of 30 knots morine could cover all potential air Stair responsible only for merchantmen in the Indian that is the real danger.
nggressor nations.
the internal emeloney of their Ocean by unidentified Bub-
SECOND, The most effective defence
aubmarine Services and to set up an inter- Around the world and marines warrant Mr Macmillan
commities of ordering the destruction: of against this is another nuclear launching pad would not attrnet Service defence
this very senior officers, backod by, particularly In European Russia arsch,
preventive attack on Inevitably, of submarine backed by long-range elaborate system of milltary Britain?
Helicopters and atomle depth country and at the same time a larga-planning star in thes would be enormously cult Ministry of Defence, with över. charges. trip-wires has been erected.
riding powers. to track und destroy. Once you cross that line, threat is that aggression by any The danger of this noval
Ardent mvallsid potential aggressors word 'Communist
bo nuclear submarine not only as a
The defence planners, who nation might
they Insy
will warned, we will blow your supported by the vast Soviet defence, but as a more effective homes to bits..
underwater dept.
themselves faced with delarrent than Mr Bondyn's Blue Sireak.
Then the Bogil would not be ¿Ten much sulamarinos vemole
and only military of about 5,000 ton sach, argned
Rolloving this, Mr Sandys Rusalp has some 500 conven- mado all other Weapons and tional submarines, soa mirandy
neo
tho
A
the
THIRD, risk of accidental nuclear war would be reduced ever as there would be no need to, and Launch instant retaliation traní - a niew task. this country, if for examplo, a long-range missile appldeniedie the one
60.
-London Express Gevulce.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Ein Märchen aus alter
Zalten,
Das komme mir nicht asi
dem Stan,"
A turn of fene des
London Lablen (PAFTION