Workers Press no. 335

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BAY. DECEMBER 23. 19/l THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'Morning Star' backs counter-revolution Rudi Dutschke arriving Polish workers yesterday for the final day of the Tribunal hear- ing his appeal to stay in Britain. He will have to wait unt alter Carsulas to hear the verdict. expose world Stalinism THE HEROIC battles of Polish workers against Oxford car the guns and tanks of their bureaucratic oppres- men back sors have ripped the mask of hypocrisy from the Polish counter-revolutionary face of world Stalinism.

workers Stalinistruggle against Nowhere is this bet- "Gener ter seen than in the

BY JOHN SPENCCH

uneras in power in reaction of the British demo dray Communist Party and Eat orkers drowne blood. the news davei 'Morning Star'. Denounced potatos then chariot zuc runcuonares and upstar ност не ви Poland, the at • branch of is Polites councils sing class for a ! igher case British sinteration rary spoke mother avoids like a There has never been any Parts has been union's From W Germany a scare or pome at to Washington... pay- aaverasements prouucer Wide support Sit-in threat Independent said ye ompanies Association for hard-liners parched he hari against local LEADERS of world imperialism are already welcoming the new hard-line Stalinist regime in Poland. N Gerahler radio take-over overt Conrad yesterdand an unresu an atte MORE than 20 of the staff of Radio Nottingham,

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over the last including the news editor, Mr Tony Cook, have interests of a privileged clique threatened to stage a 'sit in' if they are threat- Celebrole t that Standards ened with a take-over by commercial interests.

basic cause of Associate road th waste atio Gomulka leadership focal uralists, 20 years of the Staffs, and the National Uni towards closer links

GOMULKA

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a The Soviet Orton and a Sily Brandt, ratio Brandt, wno War san veek POLICIES of deposed stalinist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka

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were sharply attacked yester- s TrotsKyetrayed: i with the in "The aay in rousa press articies Theon and between of dis si The sometimes top it the wome di Saturday January 2, 1971 at 2.30 p.m.

the vierek In East India Hall quite Washingto develop may East India Dock Rd, London E14 into bureaucracy socin list per perrys, either lid the Polish pres Special National no mentoned Speaking Photo

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NO DECISION from the five-day Dutschke's tribunal into Rudi Details of all your request to study in Britain will be viewing for Christmas announced until after Christmas, Eve, Christmas Day, it was learned yesterday.

Boxing Day and Sunday Closing his case for Dutschke, Mr Basil Wigoder QC said no one had come forward from the Home Toxic the conflicting Office to explain reasons given by the Home Secre- tary since September for refusing tuna Dutschke permission to stay.

In September he had told Mr Michael Foot requested plea that of considering his applica stav on the basis tion as a completely new one one of Intolerable many Then, in a letter, he had ter caid that it was intolerable that Dutschke could only stay ifne thic country nOt engage pollution nolitica activity and theretore he was retus- ing him permission. But it was not, MI Wigoder went on, until threats Octoher 20 that Mr Maudling had made his hamhehall banalineamant to part of the Dutschke appeal heard secret and that to national security would evidence

BY MARTIN ZARROP

De brought to lioh Mr Wigoder said that ever TWO MAJOR food re- be 19õ Ceylon indication from tha HOme tailers-Sainsbury and the Office that they he laver Allied Suppliers Dutschke had broken his group- promise not withdrew from yesterday political activities. sale their stocks of tinned time appeared to know mos of Mr I tuna fish, following govern- squeezed' Jutschke's activities and move- 'sub. ment reports that ments obvious not hat Dorses telephone stantial amounts' of deadly Ceylon Te nach ange methyl mercury had been "Daily Newc' vecterday de- discovered in samples. scribed the new freighi Cur. imports and Other food retailers between there and Were punitive and asked: governmeni Is the squeeze on? and direction hatore taking similar action. The Kind The official tacts follower Shipping Conference, the detection of large amante hich trade from of the toxic metal in tuna fis Colombo Britain, mposed a i5 per and Titan Cints cent and the withdrawal from sale and there of a million tins charge on exports ner cent surcharge on imports.

The reference 'suhstan- the level of co milton and this parts Attorney-General Rawlinson would mean co natentiv single the action smacked of that meg con fish retaliation has been tapped', said Mr taminated containe methy mercury dose enniva.

"This the Wigoder. added: months' normal Dutschke has is it lent examine he gore Have the now, « T+ consumption. that Mr examine held under observation Tha dispard of cuch con bankers, wactern nowere care bally. movements tabulated tamination is neither surpris- the chinnere and the financ.

ing nor unpredictable. ing and aid attend decided to punish Cevion for an poised huer the lact tow vasre in Informed the the bold steps she is particular. intornational take internally the In addition these radical policies she has already methods of observation it may sphere Foresen fairs the rammed home, time and again.

he that camenre who bretends to ha buteche's friend The surcharges will cost acting hoo Long list sadie 80 3,0 2 1 Ceylon, facing a grave former giving i month tion to the security services. Mercury only one of long list chemicale tha

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foreion exchange are extreme v narcistent in. cluding arcenie and leadi Once disgorged into MiTATO by tactories it Wind and cHeapne roa ands of miles absorbed into elementary body form. most

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

suffered 1959 to be announced by the five- Rumours that the kid. tribunal been Eugen Behi, wat German consul, which about to be denied by sitting for two were Such only the events tip Rasane mani Sep nage 4 nationoliste

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APR 22 1971

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTI

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'Morning Star' backs counter-revolution Polish workers expose world Stalinism THE HEROIC battles of Polish workers against Oxford car the guns and tanks of their bureaucratic oppres- men back sors have ripped the mask of hypocrisy from the Polish counter-revolutionary face of world Stalinism.

workers Stalinistruggle against Nowhere is this bet-

CARWORKERS

BY JOHN SPaNGSH in the Ter seen onion reaction of the British (Oxford) branch democracy nin Communist Party and newspaper the its "Morning Star'. Denounced Echoing chief demon Tary in 1956, he ene he Dai- stills. Tand, poe Star clem to esis disaster? denounced the The brands of the Ports "of sociatist demandy. councils did over E Ger- Just as i Hungary This is the first big yesterday's •Star Europe, except in the course national - reformist GAS price rises of 9t per cent From W Germany to Washington... giving mentscount for prompt pay.

produced Wide support for hard-liners FRENCH government has sis LEADERS of world. imperialism are already dormed with welcoming the new hard-line Stalinist regime in sod agains liberation fores.

Poland. ed Ahlers said in Bonn Ahlers

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proved markediy over the las Celebrote 20 years of the nationali: management No change socialist youth paper о ндистасу. the 83. leadership, Ras in on to Saturday January 2, 1971 at 2.30 p.m.

Gierek East India Hall aiributon must be opens ortals East India Dock Rd; London E14 bureaucracy revolution Special National re cray apitalist Speaking Photo

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Rudi Dutschke arriving yesterday for the final day of the Tribunal hear- ing his appeal to stay in Britain. He will have to wait until after Christmas to hear the verdict. MORE than 20 of the staff of Radio Nottingham, including the news editor, Mr Tony Cook, have threatened to stage a 'sit in' if they are threat- ened with a take-over by commercial interests.

of the They are members Broadcasting Association of Staffs, and the National Union

GOMULKA

who man the of Journalists, local radio'' station for the

BBC.

ATTACKED

After an emergency meeting yesterday they saw the station Gerald Nether- manager, cott, and warned him of the POLICIES of deposed Stalinist proposed sit-in. Wladyslaw Gomulka unanimous resolution, leader passed at the meeting, said: were sharply attacked yester- We are not up for auction day in Polish press articles. to commercial interests which we believe could well destroy "They derived from deci- our public service work over arbitrary, sions, someumes the three for the past years économic matters, concerning sake of a quick buck' dia- from lack of deepened Mr Bill Chaffe, a station logue with the working class engineer. and secretary of the of on problems economics, local branch of the Associa- the functioning of economy tion of Broadcasting Staffs and managément and ways said: development of implementing 'We shall stay at our posts plans and determining per- and refuse to leave the station spectives'. said the Polish press if we are threatened.'

PAP.

agency officially Gomulka who due to illness resigned -was not mentioned by name, but he was obviously the target of the attack.

FRANCO'S

police have 24 alleged members arrested of illegal Spanish Cor the munist Party, it was reported from Seville yesterday. claimed they

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management Police were met in Glasgow responsible for daubing "sub- at Hillingdon yesterday to discuss effects on versive' slogans and dis- tributing illegal propaganda.

strike by production of the group nearly 400 tool-room workers All but three had been arrested in Franco's calculations. Plants over Doly Blantyre and E birthplace, Ferrol Del Caudillo at Hillingdon, (of the Fuehrer'). and Kilbride are involved workers could There was still no news yes.

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NO DECISION from the five-day tribunal Rudi Dutschke's into Details of all your request to study in Britain will be viewing for Christmas announced until after Christmas, Eve, Christmas Day, it was learned yesterday.

Boxing Day and Sunday Closing his case for Dutschke, Mr Basil Wigoder QC said no one had come forward from the Home Toxic Office to explain the conflicting reasons given by the Home Secre- tary since September for refusing tuna Dutschke permission to stay.

requested Dutschke's stay on the basis of considering his applica- tion as a completely new one.

one of Intolerable many Then, in a letter, he had later said that it could only stay was intolerable unal DulscIke this country ala not enrage political activity and therefore he was refus- ng him permission. Wigoder went on. until but it was not, Mr threats October 30 that Mr Maudling has made his bombshell announcement the House heardart the Dutschke appeal Commons hat would new evidence Lu lational occulty woulu

BY MARTIN ZARROP

be brought to light. as late Ws 1970 shere had said that ever TWO MAJOR food been no indication from the Home tailers-Sainsbury and the Ceylon that believed Dutschke had Allied Suppliers being not engage promise yesterday withdrew from political activities. sale their stocks of tinned time

CAIS

appeared to know most of Mr I tuna fish, following govern- squeezed' Dutschke's activities and move- 'sub- ments. ment reports that not, that Durscuses telephone stantial amounts' of deadly Ceylon Daily News- a nesterd methyl mercury had been yesterday de- discovered in samples. scribed the imports Clarzes retailers Other food were there between anc awaiting detailed London as punitive and asked: figures direction, before "Is the squeeze on?'. taking similar action. King- The Ceylon-United official followed detection of large Shipping Conference, dom he large covers which race IrOM of the toxic metal ll Luld 1s Colombo the United Statés salt in imposed a per cent and the wtonawa mom sare charge exports tins. tnere or a million per cent surcharge on imports.

'substan- The reference to 'Daily tial puts In an editorial, tene amounts News' observed that the im the level of contamination be- position the surcharges tween 0.1 and 0.5 parts per patently indefensible Attorney-General Rawlinson million and this would mean action smacked meal con- retaliation. has been. tapped', said methyl mercury dose Wigoder. could added: "this The obvious is

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montas question the government must nOW. consumouon Have the that examine M T mas been The discovery of such con- held under western powers, bankers, close onservation. and his movements tabulated lamination Is neitner suroris- shippers, and nnanc- carefully. and aid-givers ine nor unoredictabe. 1112 arencies Over the last few years, in décided to punish Cevlon for Informed The boe stess she is borseo barucular. intemanona take internally and the nature of tne threat posed by these methods of observation it mese addition radical policies she has already massive outflows of toxic adopted™ the sphere dustrial has been rammed home, time and again.

foreign affairs?' thal someone wao pretenus will The surcharges cost has been acting Long list facing a grave former and giving Intoma- crisis. to the security services.' Mercury only of long chemicals that list

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extremely in toreign exchange. persistent. 11- cluding arsenic and lead.

Once disgorged into by lactones. Asken wino and current over thous.

absorbed into anas of miles elementary life forms fondly nea pears cothe huanad form. the most tragic example of mercury poisoning

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

case of lll lapanes who either died or that the kid- ton announce runal ve damare napped German indus- • Wich had contaminated by Beihl, was about to trial effluent. been Eugen sitting for two weeks in judge- denied by Such released WeIC events are only the 16 of the iceberg. tip The dis- ment TEne basque boast news axency. nationalists accused of • see page q 'carrio nas

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BY 'grand lie' vicious backlash against electricity The workers from a section of the public the Tories and the capitalist press succeeded intimidating in leaders. Public opinion was deliber- and ately misrepresented never reflected the views of more than a part of the British public. uch-vaunted public w power workers might be lan Yeats assesses the national press on the POWER WORKERS enthus worse herpreten over and Sussex, the dealed a m in to abber he unionhe Tories *This power workers Painful lives rules Leading Grand lie But left to Peregrine orthorn fundamental conclusion: the mosu and Sms not the no sell the e the sticks rom failedcution • in recent Because har refected ate of public coniors Sunday Expres industrial action: sympathetic Le peone want he more t some already those dislike a do well to heed it, workers Attack conscien from are evidence own rule vno but the 1g 3 public would igoted middle-clas failintracts ring up girls at powe Mand ad sure that is nee they fiddle cannot occur again.

up against a wall and shot.

A Young Battersea power worker examines a copy o Big test warnedation is Back dul groups of workers to e dispute solely to these a nat chidee in with onwards there bones and abett and the legality of them monkers to send tveryone was energ I6a. So Stephen House, West Relations Bons, at, handustral Their stand hey will not having a go. minster Lete ident Maude n 'Sedday Express Angus spared our in the pages or th Britain in : pages of wae *Sunday Telegraphe of On Cal to force the closure Tusive homes came will Surrey would like information about or vie Foote well wint vital teste or the sputenmente virmless and cobrage. Som Diss of Stepney.

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Power workers lobby Millbank, during th in the POWER WORKERS The capitalist press knew they were and the 'Observer' said in a leader that the government 'deserves the support of us all'.

'effectively changed the It had climate of opinion'. we know from The But as Guardian' it had not changed the climate of opinion, it had mobi- lized a hitherto relatively dormant section. By Tuesday when the union *Expresswere in full retreat the leaders crowing, stronger still will be the feeling of satisfaction that the govern- ment-sustained by public opinion to the - did give not way pressure of the unions'. Victory Heath himself said that the public 'has clearly understood the importance of the dispute for the community as a whole'.

So vital are electricity supplies that the dispute could very easily have become about who runs the country, the middle class and their general staff in parliament or the workers and their unions.

This is why the dispute was so vital and this is why Heath was so delighted that the middle class won. The government was directly involved in the dispute. Maude makes this clear. 'Of course the government is not the electricity workers' em- ployer. It is the electricity coun cil who must act as our [the middle class] champion in this fight. 'Nevertheless in addition to its undoubted influence and its reserve emergency powers the government has one considerable It could and should weapon. make it clear to the employers that it will not sanction any in- crease in electricity charges arising out of a pay settlement more generous than the present 10 per cent offer.' To use the newly-discovered weapon of public opinion re- quired only two things and the caiptalist press were falling over themselves to supply it. The first was a willingness to maliciously play down what the work-to-rule was all about-low pay, productivity, redundancies.

Instead they chose to concen- trate every available reporter on the job of dredging up examples of 'suffering' which, however tenuously linked to the power the pulie manged with them i would nevertheless Cry Pictures of crouched over a one-bar electric other in the pages of the dailies.

The 'Sunday Express' ran : cartoon in which a power workes was pictured laying a wreath on a grave marked 'the sick, the old —who died of cold and blacked- out hospitals. They died to give the electricity men a rise.

Front-page treatment was given to a story about a woman who ar workers lobby the Electricity Councll, IllIbank, during their recent work-to-rule.

died during a power cut, even though there evidence was no that she died because of the cut.

The London 'Evening Standard' talked of 100 people dying each day. The deluge of stories and pic all aimed tures were at one objective-to enlist sympathy and The issues to stir up outrage. had to be ignored at all costs.

None would dispute that people died during the power cuts. People died all the time and they can't pick and choose when they do it. None would dispute the power cuts caused hardship to people- particularly the old. squarely capitalists who are fighting tooth

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The electricians' fight for more cash today is our fight tomorrow.

The myth of the whole of society being held to ransom by a small group of greedy workers wasn't hard to create. But let the Tories be warned.

The myth will be a lot more difficult to sustain in the face of the across-the-board attack they are mounting on the living standards of the entire working class. The tactics they have used against the power workers can only be used when they are deal- ing with a section of the working class. The dangers must not be over- simplified. To face and defeat sections of the working class is precisely what the Tories will try to do. Their resolve to do so has been strengthened by the defeat of the power workers' leaders.

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Wind in Wednesday, December 23, 1970 throughout the working class is of critical importance. In the 'Sunday Express' among the ads for fur coats and recipes a women's writer said: "To hell with the strikers. I won't give in.

I'll see the food in my deep freez rot and I'll see the strikers rot before I'll give in to their demands.' 'And if any other lot are thinking of coming out in sym- pathy I serve notice that I'll do my best to see them out too.

I've had enough. It is long, long past the time when 1 had the men with sympathy who struck for a living wage. This the electricians is a strike for luxuries.' (Actually it wasn't a strike.) The writer went on to draw upon clearly expert knowledge of industrial pay scales by which was deduced the remarkable in- formation that some dustmen earn £2,000 a year. How big can the lies get? The of bigger. answer 1S, course, Everything will be done to dis- tort, mislead and confuse.

To illustrate the hardening of the middle class we can quote from another 'Sunday Express' writer who said : I'm told that in some districts the dustmen are already going round seeking their Christmas boxes. I hope it proves to be a very frosty season for them.'

Commenting on the sacking of 60 men at a Birmingham factory for taking part in a December 8 demonstration the same writer said: "Tough it must be admitted. But if this nonsense that is ruin- ing the country is to be stopped toughness is the only cure.

The more we have of it the sooner we'll get back to sense.'

In this period leadership is of vital importance. It clearly cannot be repeated often enough -the electricity workers' leaders have proved it - that right wingers, the TUC and the Stalin- ists will not fight the Tories.

They will try to force a re- treat every time. Workers must be alert to these betrayals. Unless a new revolutionary leadership is built in the trade unions millions of workers will be de- moralized by being led into one defeat after another. The dustmen and sewage wor- kers, the miners and the elec- tricity supply workers have proved that the strength is there to force the Tory government to resign. TUA pamphlet 6d December 8MZ m High Street, London, SW4.

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Wednesday, December 23, 1970

TWO PLAYS

BY COLIN WELLAND:

Roll on Four O'Clock! (ITV, December 20, 10.15 p.m.)

AND

Hallelujah Handshake (BBC 1, December 17 9.20 p.m.).

COLUMN

THE REALITIES behind the of capitalist 'education' delineated than they were on Su Welland's 'Roll on Four O'Cloc 20, 10.15 p.m.). This was a quite out of the ordinary play; indeed it was so skilfully realized that one was scarcely conscious of watching a play at all. It was emphatically not anothem: but rabber an indict.

another 'social ment of the impersonal forces which crush workers' children into the harsh mould capital- ism has prepared for them.

Filmed on location in a Man- chester secondary school, the play shows the tensions and misery which are an integral part of this process, and condi- tioned by the class context in which the school operates-a which boys are context in herded together in preparation for a lifetime's work on the conveyor belts of the local fac- tories. Emotion Nobody, staff or pupils, can buck the system, and the play's great merit is the complete absence of sentimentality and cheap emotion. The staff, worn cynical by spent feeding capital's years demand for labour, all find some way of adapting them- selves to the routine. They sit in the staffroom grumbling, or gloating over magazines, confiscated sex they time serve with resigna- tion and take out their own frustrations and inadequacies on the pupils. Prime target is Peter Lati- mer, whose homosexual tend- encies make him a butt for the other boys. Latimer, portrayed matter-of-fact Frank Heaton, is a creep and a tale- disliked by the teach- bearer, ers and terrorized by the boys.

Ted Crampton, the®reaction- ary headmaster, thinks it his duty to hound Latimer in an effort to make him or break him. For Crampton, Latimer is 'the odd one who gets through the net' in a school of 500 boys. The hypocrisy of Crampton's relentless insistence that Lati- mer be put through the mill only encourages the other mas- ters to take it out on Latimer.

The boy's position is intoler- able, but there is no way out, and the film brings home all the claustrophobic pressures which finaly drive him to run a neighbour's motor cycle into a wall in the hope of 'getting put away'. He is not a victim of individuals, but precisely of the impersonal spite of a bru- talizing system. Fodder The school's job is the pro- duction of factory fodder-the looming power station round the playing fields help to drive this vividly home--and anyone who won't bend to this fate has to be broken. There is no rebellion about Latimer, nothing heroic about his situation, but he has to be broken nonetheless. The teachers, too, cannot escape. They're part of the system. Keeping the convevor belts supplied. Turning out human labour. Nobody, not even the 'pro- master, gressive' art immune. His efforts to help Latimer fail, understand himself because the boy sees the hope- lessness of his situation and seeks a hopeless way out.

Welland's characters are ordinary people, and he has a behind the hypocritical facade on'-can seldom have been better were on Sunday night in Colin Four O'Clock' (ITV, December sharp eye for the absurdities of school life. The play's often amusing sometimes • farcical situations and dialogue reflect this, but do not cut across the essential seriousness of the theme.

Abridged For workers and their children, capitalism provides 'education' only in its most bastardized and truncated secondary form. The modern school, which epitomizes this of schooling for the type majority of workers, is now being reintroduced in another form by the Tories as part of their systematic attack on workers' rights. 1: TONY CALVIN stars as In the last analysis, the teachers are reduced to the role of warders-as one of the staff comments at the end of the play. To the wall • ploughs grimly Crampton and insensitively on trying to force Latimer to , conform. Privately, in any case, he con- siders that boys like him should be 'sent to the wall'.

The absurd assembly where Crampton issucs solemn a warning about 'filthy practices' after Latimer is debagged in the yard, only guarantees the boy a further beating-up.

And Crampton's warning is followed immediately by the BBC's radio divine service for schools, all sweetness and light and harpsichord music with a special greeting for the girls of some school in the Surrey stockbroker belt. Extension Even the carefully-prepared Christmas party, with its organized games and its regi- mented queues for cakes and orangeade, is only an exten- sion of the same process.

Latimer, knowing he will be bullied there, wants to CALVIN stars as Henry In BBC's 'Hallelujah Handshake'. avoid attending the party. The art master backs him up. But Crampton insists: It's wicked world, he says, and must learn to live in Latimer it. So the boy goes and is inevitably picked out by the master in charge of games, a man with an unreasoning pre- judice against 'poofs'. The whip He is singled out for some particularly violent game "the whip'-and hits his head.

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Knocked he is taken It dealt with another odd- out, home by the art master, but man-out, a mild schizophrenic his sympathy over tea at who comes to the religion Latimer's home where he seeking the affection he has lives with his grandmother- been denied. only angers the boy more.

The non-conformist min- There are no easy solutions.

ister accepts him, uses him for Nobody comes off best, and while general dogs- as the film ends in violent body, and then warns him off staff-room where argument, after complaints from parents the art is accused of master about his familiarity with their 'protecting queers'. children. He walks out, and his part- up the film: ing words sum "Thank God I'm not Lack parent. He moves on to the High Again Anglican church, whose minis- ter is delighted at his conver- This was an uncompromising sion and will not listen to his play, which it is to be hoped colleague's warnings. left viewers angry and upset.

Inevitably, the victim walks Directed by Roy Battersby.

off with the cash-box and is 'Roll on Four O'Clock' should unceremoniously abandoned by be shown again as soon as his priest to the tender mercies possible. of the law. Colin Welland's other play •Hallelujah Hand- The play neat study this week, was a shake'

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