THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1960.
I'm All Right Jack When the strike spreads to a shop steward's
home... IT'S
TIME TO COMPROMISE
THIS IS Industry maitrised in the China Mail version by Peter Evans of the Boulting Brothers' film m All Right Jack, based on Alan Hackney's notei Private Life. ludustrial innocent Stanley Windruss tras been duped into working in one of his uncle's factories. His uncle intends to cause a strike, pans
associate-making a £100,000 tax- contract to an
plan free prati. The sirike has happened but the
out hax misfired for the associate's employees are too. Now the great compromise begins.
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THE Pool of London lay sullen and silent and still. Riverside cranes pointed stiff, unmoving skeleton fingers of sted and scorn at the sky. Britain was on the fast-crumbling brink of a national strike. A strike'over one in- nocent, confused, misunderstood man- Stanley Windrush.
An uneasy silence spread through the land as men and machines came to a stop. There was also an uneasy silence in chief shop steward Fred Kite's kitchen as he and Stanley avoided each other's eyes and ate their supper without a word.
A dilemma
For Stanley had been sent to Coventry and Kite, a true unionist, was observing the letter of the law, wishing he had never Invited Stanley to lodge with him, and dering how he could ask him to pass pickles without being unfaithful principles,
won-
10
the his
Chlef Shop Stoward Kite (Peter Sellers), a strike veteran, discovers the power of labour when his wife leaves home
The
comera
Must I always walk in the Swastika's Shadow?
TRY, if you will, to get into the mind of a Jew who sees the serawled swastika. He shudders, I know-BECAUSE I AM A JEW.
I try to turn my face away from the swastika, but I see six million ghosts--my co-religionists murdered by Hitler, murdered under the emblem of Jew-hatred.
Tom hounted by the memory of how they diod in the concentration camps and gas chambers and ghettos, .
And though I am grateful to millions of Christians who cherish liberty and detest avéryTMTM thing the swastika stands for, I, because I am d Jew, can really know the foar and feel the terrible impact.
1 WANT TO CRV OUT: WHY PICK ON US? WHY PICK ON US?
.
Just as I cried out when I was a kid at school where a little Christian boy waylaid me and shouted, "Dirty Jow!"
I couldn't understand why he taunted me: I ren hone and sobbed to my mother,
"When
you grow up," she said, "you will need great courage because you are a Jew. That is your 'erlane,"
1 HAVE EXPERIENCED THE "SEN- TENCE I WILL BE FRANK—EVEN IN BRITAIN. EVEN AMONG MOST EN- LIGHTENED PEOPLE WHO CANNOT RID THEMSELVES OF THE PREJUDICE OF THE CENTURIES.
The heartcry
I have soon people move away from me us soon as they know I was Jewish. They did not thun!. There was a kind of a "gentlemen's agreement"-a quiet, Insidious form of boycott -say, nothing.
It is the same kind of “gentlemen's agree- men!” that operates in some golf clubs which Jows cannot join!
but I
"YOU are all right, don't like the Jews as a people." I have been told.
"YOU are a good fellow, but some other Jews don't know how to behave. They're brash. They swank.. They're money- grabbers. They wear the most expensive suits, drive fluchy
The unthinking mind looks upon all this with astonishment and displeasure,
Kite's dilemma was sud- denly forgotten when his
Kite banged the door as he Windrush, was becoming some- and we're all going to lose, a wife came in and told him eft,
thing of n national hérő, Uncle hundred thousand snackers." the Bertram and Cox-who had en- inspecting some newspaper reporters Kite was
He handed Stanley a Giad-cuts." be slone bag, dull of fivors. "That's wanted to see him. "It'll be pickets when Stanley arrived in gineered the struke-wore
your shore," he mlled. his bubble ar, "Sorry, you ginning to panic. about the strike," he said, can't go on, picket, Stanley.
strike had spread to In a daze, Stanley look his quickly replacing his boots. You're br Coventry," Kits Cox's factory and the cool, fast place on the panel. I was his "Will you kindly retire, announced.
fortune they were hoping to lur to speak, I expect they want state- "Well, you see," said Stanley make out of a shady arms deul moved in with red light
adgeting in his bowl, "I don' with
A was shining like Ardu shadier ment from me.”
ut bly head. want to decided to return to work."
go on picket. I've becoming less and less likely.
" em sack Stanley now
He said: "In a way, I'm unly Kite opened his mouth and with the Press behind him," just beginning to understand." closed it without Л word. Bertram told Cox grisly. Stanley went on "It's a quvy- "Well, then." Cox suggested. tion of family loyalty, you see, "We must see what this bloke I realise now I can't let uncle Kite will settle for." down."
"IT I was you I wouldn't to getting meself in the news- papers," said Mrs Kite anxious- ly wiping her hands apron,
her
on
both
Kite tried tes lapk assured and kindly amused at his wife's naive concern, but the
"Uncle? Kile finally man-
Iwe looks collided Inside and aged. came out in a stupid pin. "Don't be ally, mother," he in the sold "When you're
public eye, you got to expect this."
An interview
As soon an Stanley, daughter Cynthia, and Mrs Kite had left the on, Kite admitted the
Press. Kite addressed them
his best platform managr.
"Mr Kite, could we interrupt you a moment" a reporter asked politely. "We understand Mr Windrush you have a lodging with you? Could
meet him?"
Reluctantly, Kite called
wife to fetch Stanley.
3*L”
his
A reporter nsked: "Mr Windrush, is it true you caused. the strike by working tou herdy"
"Not harder, really-perhaps 'a bit quicker. But it's not all as simple as that, you know. You see there's the negotiated agreement," Stanley said, try- ing hard to be a good union member,
Well. uctually, ho'g Trnopurcel (a director
Mr
of
"And there's also the question PATCHING UP THE QUARREL
of the bincit men,"
vaguely recalling
burst.
he added, Kite's out-
----TERRY-THOMAS
Missiles), but be asked me not "Black men? How do they to tell you that," come into it?" 1 reporter asked in amazement.
"I must admit I don't really riding high in motional understand myself. But sure Mr Khe could explain it," "Oh, I bee it all now, I
I'm
&
A bribe
It was agreed to send Missing Mr Hitch- personnel manager. cock, to sound val Kite.
After, too long alone amid the dua'y disorder of o strike-bound horne, Kite was anxious to and a quick settlement
the
a
ruygun
aimed
Unde Bertram looked ner- yously at the aniling Arab. "I've swal- Stanley went on: lowed everything they chose to give me. The phoney patriotic claptrap of the bosses. The bilge I've heard about workers' rights.
Wherever you look it's Blow You Jack, I'm All Right." Angrily he turned on Uncle Bertram: "And you! You're such a ruddiy always waving great Union Jack nobody can see what you're up to behind it."
Then Kite and the smiling Arab and Uncle Bertram and Hitchcock and Kite, sharing a Stanley were all shouting at bottle of Australian Burgundy once. The chairman's chrcinium- quickly, got down to brass tucks plated calm began
Blake. They soon agreed to re-time the
"Gentlemen, let us keep to the fork lift joi "only properly facts," he implored, wandering under the strict supervision. of what the erities would say about the works committee.'
Then they reached an impasse. him the next morning.
Kite sold firmly that there could be question of a return to
"Facts." "Here are
shouted Starley. the-facts-hundreds the Gind-
of 'em." Ho Bfted
work while Stanley remained stone and threw fatfuls of fivers
The critics
are
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Because
I am
a
Jew
-By Arnold Field
WHO, "in 25 years as a newspaperman, has travelled the world
to get his startes. He was born in Britain, his grand- · parents having fled to England from the Russian pogroma in the serly part of the century. He and his three brothers arved in the British Army In Hitler's war.
every
than
It is to a
.
AM A JEW. BUT I HAVE NO CAUSE TO BURY MY HEAD IN SHAME,
I think of General Sir John commander
Monash, brillant
of the Australian Forces da
World War I. A Jow.
war
The record
not condemn every a criminal
I think of the VDs of that I do
Frank Lleutenant Christian for the misdemeanours Christian:
Alexander
Dďom Pass, C. Adling Nor should of a few.
There cra rich Jews Who Corporal Isay Smith, "Loonard Jew be condemned,
live in magnificent houses and Keysor, Caplain David Philip Keep servants. But I can take Hirsoli, Jack White, Robert Gee, you to poor Jews who live in Jews.
I think
of
He is not brush because he is a Jew, any more than the sunless buck streets and savab Jews who Jews Christian is brash because he is their own homes.
a Christian. Some Jews will queue up for help at the Jewish the swastika war, Lieutenant Board of Guardians and the Jewtals Benevolent Society.
Of
Or
course, some Jews brash; Of course, some don't know how to behave. course, "some Jows swank. of course,
are some Jews criminals.
And,
BUT WHY PICK ON UST Some Christians misbehave,
pre but people ridden with judice ignore this fact.
misbehave In spite of being Jews. So, will come Christians, in spite of being Christians.
They do it because they are what they are and not because of their religion. It is no more in the make-up of a Jew to be
Thermometer checks whole
ward at once
was impossible to fire him, it at the studio audience in disgust A CLINICAL thermometer which tells tempera-
Kite's spirits sank with the
and rage.
That was the beginning of the falling level of the Burgundy. flere fight which ended in Then, staring hard into the Stoney's arrest. hattor of his glass as if that was where the thought came from he mid: "Overwork. That's it. Il-health brought on by overwork. That's how to
.So the story ends where
!!
got rid of him. Make him resign began at Sumyglades Nature Through overwork brought on by
Camp. trying to keep up with the new schodules."
"But I'm perfectly dt." Stanley protested. "Don't worry about me, Uncle. I'll carry on the light for you."
sen.
ture INSTANTANEOUSLY and also enables
a hospital nurse to take the temperatures of an entire wardful of patients without moving from her office has been developed by scientists at Tolworth, Surrey..
attached
AT
And
The thermometer is electronic and works on transistors and small. battery. It consists of 2 and highly "The magistrate lot you off, meter, a switch, ch?" said the naked Windrush sensitive "probes." One of these
"What did
containing he mean, tiny rubber tubes, seek medical advico?"
wires, 1s
to each The naked Windrush
jun, patient. said: "Well, chucking all that
The exact iemperature and It "I should ruddy well think the
wis then that Uncle money about I suppose. And
shown any change both Uncle Bertram ONCE on the meter dial. did," Kite shouted, his
voleu Bertram finally gral to Cox's anyway, rage, wild suggestion to try to bribe and Kite sald in court I'd been by moving the switch a nurse
evorworking." must Stanley.
can "tune in" to the tempbro- "Well, I expect you'll feel have been blind." An agent That evening, Stanley was to better now with nil your clothes But Kite had left the room, pervockatoor, that's what you appear on a television discussion off" said the old man kindly, Also in the programme, "It's a pleasant contrast to all for the tople was the strike, the ugly rushing and grabbing were Bertram, his amiling Arab that goes on outside.” "Bellove you? You, who friend Mahommed, Rad Mr Stanley went to straighten his front-page talked yourself into the union, Kite, the key figures in the dis- college ile-and remembered he will go into was THEWS. Kite was buymeasurably wormed your way into my home pule
bad discarded his last social depressed na Mrs Khe read the and all the thue you was & Afth
column in our midst.”
Cox comero Stanley in his distinction. reports to Cymhin.
It was an ugly moment. The studio dressing-room. He went pickets began to crowd around straight to the point "It you The don't resign the strike goes on the amall car ominously.
A revelation
The following morning Stan- ley Windrush
"Salute Stanley Windrush," she read, her eyes misting
"Beate me how you can read
ure,"
Stanley began:, "Oh, no Klic, please believetme.
panel. Mr
that muck," said Kilo spitefully, police moved fast and
"I don't know about muck, Stanley
escorted Chrough their lines,
Mrs Kha tumed on him..."'s to the factory,
you lot that's put poor Stanley
in Coventry. Like a lot of kids
you are. I notico the popers
don't say "Saluto Fred Kite.” “
"Fm going out. I've got
.
A panic
a That evening, Kitę and along
Jet to do," Kke vald, defented. in his kitchen and faced a
"I thought you
strike," said his wife.
Was O future
THE END
=(London Expresa Service),
disturbing him." tyre of each patient without
How cold?
One of the new, thermometers use in #1x-bed ward at Edinburgh Royal In- A firmary later this month.
nt prototypo has been on test the Medical, Physles Unit of Edinburgh University.
One of
Patient's temperature glowni Instantly.
there the doctors
He added: "There is no limit said: "Its big attraction is that to the number of 'probes whleit can be attached to it in a hos- thero is now no feod to rouse a patient to have his temperature pital. The patient feels nothing. taken-day or night. We have But the sister can keep an eye minute, found the electronic thermo- od everyone, every meter of scent · valuo piso
In vital to know at ence
in from ber" office,"
doop-freeze operations when it Testinoni note: The "probe"
how has a metallle oxide tip whos cold the patient le becoming.” MOUSE saw a anoring mouth wide open in the bed
electrical resistance that worried him. For Amand leaped in.
chenget This first version is a green- when heat is applied. The meter he had servt. Stanley packing.
gray box measuring mine inches circuit converti this resistanco. "Ivo got branch meetings, Art of a reprima), Mrs Klis
by Ave. Mr Kenneth Fletcher, change to a change of current," The mouth, belonged to 49-your-old Andrew Leach,
hand of the Tolworth labora- This current can be calibrated reports to the executive, chock and Cynthia had also lett hene, asleep at his home in Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He the pickets...
Tor Kite, it was the, Grat gulpedmand swallowed the meuso. Panic-stricken, ke tory, majd, “We are considering in Legrops Min Klio sighed teavily: really serious turn 10 strike
developing one sullable for Fahrenheit, was rushed to hospital."
mudden heat- general practen doctor's bag or shock, from boiling water, does *As far as I can see, the only had taloers,
coat poplet. Aty wooli bežiery `no dúnaga. time you really do ang work is
has a six months' life.” when you're on štelov.”
(fundon Beprem Service),
While the tone British Pills and salt water put him right. "Slowly," saya workmen on the job, Stahley the hospital, "fin began, to see the funny side of it.”
4.
centigrade OT
The way
I DI
a explialist. Communist.
2 I AIN I am a WETTRONIECT,
1
the V.C. at
W. Gould, RN, A Jew,
of
think of the scientist Albert Einstein. A Jew.
I think
Jogos Dr Salk, discoverer of the ', matá- I am a pallo vaccino. A Jew. pacifist.
I am Am
a
money-lender. scrounger. All this I am in the eyes of those who hate me only because I ara a Jew.
ATO
*Ah," you may ask, "what about the Jews who Loo Ju areas predominantly Jewish?'
Jewi Of course, the clannish. Ceaseless persvention, In many lands, in many furies, has kept us, together.
We like to live near cach
think of the I
composera Felix Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Mahler. Jewa.
The hero
And, if you will forgivo an- sther personal note, I think öf nlad I knew and loved, · ·
He was a Jew. He fought in the war against the swastika. He was killed in Italy, trying to He was Bave another soldier, other. But we don't crowd into awarded the Military Modni
we want posthumously. thern over. We just The soldier he tried to save want to follow customs, our way of life, a life was a Christian,
to take them over.
our ancient
as old as civilisation itself.
That Jew was my younger. We keep together in this way brother, Monty.
shail we know we
because
BUT HE DIDN'T ASK IF Survive,
HIS BATTLEFIELD COM- I DO NOT SHOUT FROM RADE WAS ·A JEW OR A
THE HOUSETOPS THAT I CHRISTIAN.
གཤ ཤན
"De indispensable-like kosping the files so tressed up
that only YOU know what's where!” ....
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