IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

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Black Dwarf Vol. 14, No. 19, 1969 · p. 11 of the scan · 660 words

The scan: v14n19-nodate.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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the people are wedged with little chance to move ur breathe.

If you look rather more closely at Lesnevs and Co. Lid., you will notice omething else, There are several tactories. The profits al the whole turn have risen lo luc over between April 1960 and April 1968.

1967 protits after tax were $1,271,214.

In 1968 profits after tax were £2,036.106.

In other words, profits between 1967 and on were up by over El millon The salaries of the company directors averaged before tax E6000 a year.

This comes to f120 a week. Each director has made over 64 million during the last ten years from shares.

Several directors are OBE's. Now OBE has various interpretations. sometimes said 10 stand for Other Buggers" Efforts. This would be reasonable interpretation. It should not for driving whilst disqualified. be a question of what the directors of "atford", but what the afford to pay them for unuseful work. When you look at the thing in this general way along withra few million other poople, are being (Pully, Pryce and Chief Inspector Sulliat Lesneys exploited. Exploitation can be partly measured Products and Co. Hackney are being exploited, and accounts drawn up. It can he figured out.

But the deepest part of it evades such measurement. You cannot add up what the head. There is the numbness and the bitterness and your soul sagging. This is the real cust of exploited labour.

Not that the directors of Lesneys ar Our Pully dossier in the last Dwarf referred to the strange case of a black mechanic Sidney Broderick a citizen of Notting Hill Gate. He was brought up. quite talsely on an immoral earnings charge, and duly acquitted. During the proceedings he claims to have heard Pulley remark that If the immoral earnings charge doesn't stick we'll get him for driving while disqualified. Last week quential. The Times has dreamt up a after the jury had been out for an hour. a he received a sentence of nine months The defence case was that the charge workers of Lasneys decide they can (formerly recorler at Smethwick) could was a frame-up. The judge, Mr. Layton not helieve this. As he said in the trial "Why should three honest policemen van) fabricate a case against a little coloured man.

ing Till comrades. As they sat quietly in the public gallery waiting for the trial to begin a policeman came up and said he did not know why but could they all fools) they all filed down to the corridor below where they were immediately surrounded by twenty policemen and searched. Apart from pullouts of the Pulley dossier reprinted from the Black Dwarf nothing was found and all but one were allowed back into the court. The one being the comrade carrying the Dwarfs who was manhandled and kept out.

Another interesting thing about this case is the way the Unfree press is nibbling around the edges of the story. Wierd items have appeared in both The Times and the Guardian about the Broderick case which must have struck non-Dwart readers as most peculiar and inconse'Black Dwarf Movement' and the Guardian carried the Judges assurance that no prejudice was involved in the sentencing. As usual the Unfree papers know a scandie when they see one. But none of them dare risk their contacts with Scotland Yard - just think of all these valuable circulation bullding crime stories and hackground reports by heing the first to blow it. So the Dwarf is blowing hard and improving its contacts with Scotland Yard every day. Whilst The Times and The court was attended by sever Notl- the Guardian keep their fingers in the racist mess of Notting Hill so that when it spills over into Parliament and other receptacles they can claim that they did their bil of stirring.

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days and months and years of work going on and on and always the same do inside your

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