It’s about they sent someone down here to sort this port out. The Wednesday Play: The Big Flame ***** by Jim Allen, man to Mr Garfield from the ministry, BBC 1969
Any attempt to change the basic working habits of men and to introduce new ideas and new methods of production is bound to create a certain climate of fear and apprehension. Now this we can understand and sympathise with. However, what we cannot understand, and what the government cannot tolerate, is the activities of a certain group of irresponsible people who exploit the situation by fomenting strikes and discord within the industry. ibid. Garfield
The only people who didn’t see the [Devlin] Report was the dockers themselves. ibid. union rep in meeting to Garfield
The biggest exponents of restrictive practices are the employers themselves. ibid.
We’re on a mandate to come and put to you our proposals. ibid.
There’s bound to be a certain shakedown in labour. ibid. Garfield
You’ve neither given nor offered us anything. ibid. union rep to Garfield
You’re really exposed, you’re really out on a limb, and the only thing that you can cling to is your own mates, and the objective of what you’re fighting for. ibid. dockers’ commentary
The men have done everything they can to settle things peacefully: the strike is the last resort. ibid.
Well, we’ve got 10,000 lads out and their families. ibid. docker
I mean, being thrown out of the union isn’t a bad thing, is it. ibid.
I want to see the big flame, Danny. I want to see one big solid mass of us that’s point the finger at those raiders and say, You failed in your management of society, so pack your traps, think yourself lucky, and go. ibid. Jack
Either you continue with this hit and run policy or the dockers take over the ports … Let’s have a workers’ control now. ibid.
For the first time in your lives you’ve been offered a taste of true democracy. ibid. rep to collected workers
But at least let’s make the attempt. ibid.
It doesn’t need no boss. ibid. Commentary
At every pit, at every factory, at every building site, at every docks, the work people involved will elect their own delegates, the best men on the job, the most responsible men. They in turn will elect delegates to the Congress or to the Parliament. The Congress for the first time in history will be composed of people directly representing the work people, in the factory, on the job, at the point of production. They’ll be subject to the right of immediate recall. They’ll have to explain every decision they make. This is the basis of taproots. ibid.
All day long convoys of troops have been arriving, and additional police reinforcements drafted in from neighbouring towns, as this takeover by 10,000 Merseyside dockers enters its second day … ibid. news
We’re here to assist the police in maintaining law and order … The reason we’re here is to see there isn’t any violence. ibid. army bloke
It’s a conspiracy, it seems obvious, between the employers and the government. ibid. union rep
Man’s never had the chance to show how good he can be. ibid. Jack
‘Don’t mourn. Organise.’ ibid. docker quotes Joe Hill
There inside the gates! The police and the army! ibid. Docker
Now it’s the ringleaders we’re after. ibid. man with megaphone
Laurie Lee - Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip 1999 - Weird or What? TV - Tommy Cooper - Thomas Hardy - Virginia Woolf -
She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve. Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
Mary Sweeney: Her uncontrollable mania for breaking windows. Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip, newspaper report, BBC 1999
Mary Sweeney, the schoolteacher known as the Wisconsin Window Smasher, has just completed tour of the principle towns and jails of the state. She claims to have destroyed $50,000’ worth of glass on her recent trip. ibid.
It began with two brothers ... On December 7th the Morenos were going about their daily routine. Their job as high-rise window washers was not without its dangers. Their day started cleaning the glass on an Upper East Side apartment building more than a hundred and twenty metres up ... From forty-seven storeys up the platform plummeted for nearly six seconds before it crashed on to the pavement ... Although one of the brothers had died the other was somehow miraculously breathing. Weird or What? Strange Survival
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. Tommy Cooper
Something tapped on the pane of my room
When there was never a trace
Of wind or rain, and I saw in the gloom
My weary Beloved’s face. Thomas Hardy, Something Tapped
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
This is the second floor of our notorious headquarters here in the centre of Milano, notorious following a sordid little incident which happened here a few days ago when an anarchist under interrogation on one of the upper floors fell through the window. Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, rozzer, Youtube 1.14.39/Thames TV
It’s no use trying to pull the wool over my eyes, sonny. ibid.
You said, We were all having a jolly good time and he jumped out of the window. ibid. acting judge
Democracy is not found in macro-globalist gravy-train neo-liberal monstrosities. Democracy is formed at the micro level, a taproot anarchism based on cooperation, needs, not capitalist corporate profit. We do not need them. We can do it ourselves. esias