craftsmen are exported by a government agency. The firm that makes them, John Edgington in une vid Kent Road, has specialised Commissions for over 200 years. All exports are in for Ene Prison done through the Crown Agents, who act on behalf of the governments concerned. One director of the company said: "We manufacture and deliver to the instructions of the Crown Agents...We don't export to Communist countries." Many famous nooses have left the "We exported a Trials. The Americans used them there."
ecialised art") is now only a microscopic par f the firm's business, and they have tried t et out of the job for many years. Before th reak-up of the British Empire, the company used to send its nooses out for use execution to here onto ve - now 1h21 THOSE these countries won independence, they still do much of their or the company admitted: Af this. A dise to of the company admitted: that our ropes are used in Nigeria"
The Crown Agents' job is to buy and sell for foreign governments and to find people to fill administrative posts for these govemments.
They refuse to comment on their activities We don't normally discuss with any outsider arms selling.
*Properly manipulated (if you're not afraid of that word), housewives can be given the self-realisation, city, the sexual jettiey la khe identity, purpose by the buying of things.
from interview with Ernest Dichter, head of multi-million pound motivation research firm.
from th unell Park Women's Liberatior the Ideal Homes Exhibition at Olympia, in twos and threes, and at various times of the day. Their object was to engage as many women as possible in conversation, and with the aid of some questions worked out beforehand, to try to assess how they felt about advertising and the manipulative society they lived in, and to better explore what contradictions in this society most affect women. Sample questions were: "Why did you come here?""Does this exhibition make you dissatisfied with your house?". "Does it make you feel good to buy she feeline wast your house? How long does feeling •Who do vou benefits more from what you buy, you or the manufacurer?" "Do you think this exhibit is aimed specifically at women?" *If you had equal training with your husband or boyfriend, would you want to trade places with him? Do you think you could?"
This was their first attempt at direct action aimed at raising the issues of women's liberation with other women. While the sample interviewed at Olympia was admittedly biased complacent ("T'd rather have men open doors (middle class), and ine women general for me then get equal pay"), the method of approach seemed to work well and could be adapted to other situations, for instance neighbourhodd laundromats.
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Punishment vary magistrate, depending, presumably, on their political attitudes. An hilarious example of this occurred recently in the case of the LSE students who were arrested outside Bow Street police station where they had gone to inquire about their comrades who had been arrested because of those bloody gates. The charge was a a simple one of obstructing the highway. The students hadn't done anything except refuse to obey a police order to move on. About half of the thirty in the dock came up against a new magistrate, Mr. Crowther, who showed commendable sympathy with the solidarity of tnose accused and discharged the lot of them But Mr. Frank Milton, the chief metropolitan magistrate, who dealt with the other fifteen, handed out fines up to t25 and bound everyone over to keep the peace.
Good newshowever, for all those likely to be arrested in the future. The legal aid organisation Release, which until now has dealt mainly with drug offences, is prepared to give its assistanc to anyone who feels his civil rights are in dange Like everyone else this organisation needs bread 0 it you feel like helping write, call or phon heir office at 50A Princedale Road W.14 Instead of a productivity bargain, why not a be conducted by the stewards and unions in a particular firm or industry.
Detailed discussion and careful preparation would be conducted, setting the goals and the minimum demands. What aspects of workers control do we wish to advance, what areas of managerial authority do we wish to challenge and acquire for the workers, what reductions in top executive salaries do we seek and what restrictions on information do we wish to challenge? What wage structure and overall wage increase will we settle for? What research into the firm's profits, structure, links with monopolies and with the state, is needed?
-from Productivity Bargaining and Workers' Control, by Tony Topham, published by the Institute for Workers' Control.
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