"The cry of STOP FUCKING ABOUT could be the theme song at Ford. I once saw a new man stop work to blow his nose. While fumbled for handkerchief the charge hand rushed up. 'What's wrong! Has the machine "What is unconstitutional action? It means exactiv what the government wants. It means for example that if you say you re not going to work overtime. and you know people are working seven days a week, and they've had enough, the management sav it's unconstitutional action. We've found in the past that the only way to get anything done is to say The average Ford worker with a wife and child was earning £4/3/4 in 1938 for a 44 hour week. He paid no income tax. His insurance deductions were 1/2½d and rent 15/7d inclusive of rates. The average Ford Worker today earns £20/11/8 for the same work. Income tax swallows up £2/16/0. A further £1/3/8 ones to National Insurance and a similar broken?' No, the man answered, Im just blowing my nose. •Well, you're hot paid to blow your nose, screamed the charge hand, 'you're paid to work. Don't let me see you fucking about again"
Ford Worker that we've had enough, that we're going to stop the job. Now, by stopping the job they immediately come and do something. ll we do tnis in tne future - and is the mimethod walled immediately unconstitutional action and we lose all the bonuses ..Ford Worker Fuel, fares and clothing prices have also soared. To get the same standard of living as he got thirty years ago, the average Ford worker would have to earn £23/10/0 for a forty hour week. All the chat about the average worker taking home a fat wage packet is a lot of wind and piss. If our wives were not working STRiKE UNICIPA Wed 12 10an LEY'S HALL
The Black Dwarf 28th March 1969 The student strike at San Fransisco State always insistent history of the student movement. The tactics are new: they jump beyond the politics of confrontation. For the orgasmic decision to occupy buildings, we have substituted the long strike, at times educational, at times disruptive, building mass College marks a quantum leap in the support over a long haul Instead of acting out a defense with barricades, where we wait the inevitable retribution, we keep moving, attacking in our own time, defending ourselves police try to block Instead of sealing ourselves in a building, who their enemies are.
apart from the student body, we are outside, everywhere, among them. We can rely on the clumsiness of the trustees and the desperate incapacity of the administration to drive students and when the faculty into the movement, into a radical our mementum. sense of who they are, what they need, Todd Gitlin