Look down at your legs. If you're not sitting in the bath reading Red Weekly, it Is possible that you are wearing someining dangerous, immoral and a inreat to the West. At least, that's the verdict on denims of the 69th congress of the South A nican women's receration Mrs M. Kritzinger told the congress that the trouble with denim clothing is inat i makes ail races look me same and makes it-'easier for outside indoctrination to take a hold of poople. I feel that ine onginal idea or wearing denim is ar attack against the West.' One branch of the federation said that cloines wnicn can ine peace sion o motifs of butterflies or chewed apples "have immoral implications*. And apartBut perhaps the warnings of ine sout African Women's Federation come too late. 'Retire to a healthy pot plant' ran the headline Daily Mirrol on September. should be lowed pot plants on the National Health, a report said yesterday. The plants would many of them a lot more good than old folk would forget their aches and pains Walle tending plants …...'' But as visions of senior passing goints down ine pension queut appeared before my eyes, I noticed that the report did come from the Potted Plant ano Growers Association ano me riowe and Plants Council. Mind you ....!
Meanwhile i wollo RoDear nar onar Walden MP intends to apply for associate membersniD one South African Women's Federation. Asked whether he thought marijuana should be legalised, ne replied. useo to nink so. but what l didn't realise is that pot-smoking is associated anarchic views about society, that it is part of an ideology of life for which I have A LaDOur MP. Mr Walden isn't actually against anarchy — of the capitalist sort, that is. Apart from receiving 25,000 a year to represent me boonies unioroble in the House of Commons, he suggested last year that the Cowley car plant should be closed and 20,000 workers and their families thrown on the dole.
That one third of the world's population enjoys four fifths of the income is a fact. Is a Tact THaT Wanted To across in television adverts for Oxfam week. Apparently this fact is too politicar for me indeenaan olowson vow panies Association. They've banned It. Sceptics might think that that was the Dollica decIsIon to end on a inorougnly rancia note. we who horse-whipped a 60-year-old anti-blood sports were discharged by a coun ESTENGEK mittee who was subsequently forced into exile by the regime.
The strike began when workers in the tool room read in the papers that they had agreed to set themselves higher production targets. They flooded out to the shipyard gates to find them locked. At this point they decided to yards and hold them until they had won alcitizens prepare their own occupy The demands of the Szczecin shipyard workers went far beyond the issue of union independence. production targets. They called for freedom of the trade unions and free elections Facts within the unions; they demanded freedom of the press from censorship and manipulation; and they called for the cancellation of the price increases announced by Gomulka the previous DecDuring the confrontation on 25 January, suddenly arranged by Gierek so that the strike committee had no time to tactics, party leadership managed to get the shipyard workers to call off the strike, accepting many of their less important demands in the hope that these concessions could be destroyed at a later date. At the same time, Gierek was able to avoid giving way testimony on the price increases, and was able to confuse the issues of press and trade All these facts were vividly portrayed in the Granada programme. The workers presented a picture of appalling working and living conditions: how welders on ships hulls were unable to stop work in the freezing winter rain, in spite of the fact that this had resulted in death by electrocution for some how, during the Dec ember strikes, the police and the army had chased, beaten and killed shipyard workers "like rats'; how the price increases were producing malnutrition among the saipyard workers and tael tamines, now the standard of living of many workers had been going down during the previo years; how the unions had been turn into weapons against the working clas and the press was filled with lies.
The one weakness of Granada's pi gramme lay in the fact that it didn sufficiently set the Szczecin strike context. As a result, the shipyard worke appeared more isolated and the par leadership stronger than either actual was.
Virtually the entire working class Szczecin was on strike with the shipya workers. urtermore wave aller we of strikes swept through Poland from t middle of December 1970 right throu March-April 1971. A further confror ation between Gierek and women text workers in Lodz stretched right throu the night of 12 February 1971 while general strike gripped the city. following morning Gierek emerged fro the meeting after failing to budge t women strikers. He had no choice but