QE2, by computor, aftdeck, called ship, large, luxurious, for cruises to places exploited by the same passengers, is in the dock at Southampton. Buried under abuse and contorted by weird reportage from the "Times" to "Private Eye".
The turbines are fucking it up!
Cunard won't take it!
Lord Muck of Clabber Castle says the workers are idle, thieving bastards! Why? Why not? Greed and lies go well.
The workers slave on and the consultants BIOW with abundance that would compliment weeds. These ubiquitous consultants talk more crap than 57 cans. Workers on the Clyde feel cheated. They are I LO parochial rationalisations. Shipyard workers off the Clyde are lulled into some sense of superiority. Their Clydeside comrades are cheated by a Scot's press that kisses sentiment's arsehole and by the whole system they live under that denies them any viable say in their dignity, far less in LeT SKIIS CONSIDER...
Turbines normally are bed-tested in the machine shops betore thev a Cl eVel installed on ships. The time given for these tests is 200 hours per turbine. They are tested for gas leaks and then flushed with oil to clean out the scaling and detritus accumuatec curne consuuctor. Is ou is filtered out with great care every two hours, replaced and repeated until the turbine activates perfectly. On QE2 the turbines, (The supposed "Root" of the problem) were installed in a frenzy. One was not tested at all. The other was, for ten hours and no oil was used to clean out the particles of steel etc., that were piping and pumps. The ship develops turbine trouble... christ is it any wonder? The turbine are damaged and the consultants can't decide how. Is it not too clear how?
Bosses and their mimics spout crap that the workers fucked up the ship and although it might be fine if they had (For who sails in her?) it is not the case. When the oil shipyard that conned the order from the Govt. in the name of jobs in a heavily depressed area, when it amalgamated with it's smaller, but equally greedy, associates, the destination of the order was hard cash. Cash for them. As much as possible. Embalmed as ever under sentimental lies. Joining this array of greedy hands together brought talk of "New Methods". These "New Methods" are common. They are based on the bourgeios assumption that working men are idiots and that managers in lum hats are charismatic wizards who can transform the world by sitting on their arses and staring at blue prints of thei latest spell. Pretentious abhorred by human beings for humanity toils in a real world of long hours and insane directives. Managers, especially the Clydeside variety, are pretentious people. Shop stewards, even those facing Transport House of worse, grew more and more amazed by the demands of these wizards from their Union members. More and more new schedules, new delivery dates to meet the greed directors, new untried methods were imposed with the finesse of a clown selling tickets for a circus wnose tents had long since burnt down.
Seven foremen were asked to oversee two to tree nuncree workmen.
The foreman were asked to- Ill meaningless bits of paper and the wizards based the effectivness of their spells on this HODCUSE.
Men were left on the one job and never advised where to move to next. The workers were left to their own devices and the administration that was supposed to De the device that co-ordinated all fumed, burped and redrew new words for newer spells.
At Amalgamation, the U.C.S. abolished overtime on a ship that was being hustled from the yards as quickly as possible. Finishing trades were paid off when the WOrK they specialised in was half-completed. Tradesmen from other shipyards with no experience of the job were hired to replace them. Non-Union labour was tried on by the bosses to intimidate.
Sub-contractors arsed around in their usual parasitical fashion.
Stoppages were blamed on the men and the drunk itself SINCE verbiage that increased the already hideous relations between bosses and workers. Verbal tape blamed all on the workers and the workers were more and more dismayed by ine permutations of labout these wizards inflicted. The trials were a fuck up. The hugely publicised voyage around Christmas was a farce. Workers were sent like obediant slaves back to the ship that they had miraculously created from inaity and confusion. They were messed about even then and Cunard fumed about the bread they had lost and rich, bored idiots had to re-route their boredom for several months when the maiden voyage was cancelled. Goons from the employers side announced one contradiction another and unemployment swamped the yards as a result of the lies offered to the press that blamed the workers to a man.
So now, Cunard, a company dying on it's feet, is saying that this ship is a fuck up. Clever alecs say the workers ensured the ship would be a fuck up. sne system absolves it's priests and the slaves that maintain that system are excommunicated. Capitalism at it's wildest reigned in Clyde when the ship was being built. Capitalism at it's nastiest shovelled all blame onto men created something out of insanity and greed. The ship itself built by these working men will furnish idle hours for the same class of people who decry that men can be human in spite of their oppressive bungling of their working lives and their leisure. Dying capitalism has to have it's lies so that it's servants can crawl to a ledge and sit sunning themselves with other men's labours.