3 00:00:39,873 --> 00:00:42,082 Sir John! 4 00:00:42,208 --> 00:00:44,293 - Sir John! - What is it? 5 00:00:44,419 --> 00:00:45,961 The war, Sir John. It's over. 6 00:00:46,755 --> 00:00:49,381 Over! Yes! 7 00:00:49,507 --> 00:00:51,425 At Iast. Just Iisten to them out there. 8 00:00:51,551 --> 00:00:55,304 Yes. That's another one we've come through, Ens. 9 00:00:55,430 --> 00:00:58,390 That's right, Sir John. They can't finish us off, can they? 10 00:00:58,516 --> 00:01:00,184 - Ens! - Yes, sir? 11 00:01:00,310 --> 00:01:02,770 CIose that window, wiII you? It's become damn chiIIy in here. 12 00:01:02,896 --> 00:01:05,439 Yes, Sir John. 13 00:01:05,565 --> 00:01:07,024 'Look hard... 14 00:01:07,150 --> 00:01:10,819 'For this is the Iast we shaII see of Sir John, 15 00:01:10,945 --> 00:01:12,529 'a Justice of the Peace, 16 00:01:12,655 --> 00:01:15,574 'Chairman of the Wroughton Unionist Association, 17 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:18,285 'Vice President of his IocaI British Legion, 18 00:01:18,411 --> 00:01:20,287 'Honorary Chairman of the RegionaI Board 19 00:01:20,413 --> 00:01:23,123 'for the Adjustment of Distressed GentIewomen 20 00:01:23,249 --> 00:01:26,877 'and sIeeping partner in that vast financiaI compIex, 21 00:01:27,003 --> 00:01:29,880 'the City and ThreadneedIe Trust. 22 00:01:30,006 --> 00:01:33,842 'Yes, there goes Sir John, 23 00:01:33,968 --> 00:01:36,553 'a soIid bIock in the edifice of what seemed 24 00:01:36,679 --> 00:01:40,349 'to be an ordered and stabIe society. 25 00:01:40,475 --> 00:01:42,726 'There he goes, 26 00:01:42,852 --> 00:01:44,937 'on his way out. 27 00:01:53,613 --> 00:01:54,988 'For with victory 28 00:01:55,115 --> 00:01:56,824 'came a new age. 29 00:01:56,950 --> 00:02:00,619 'And with that new age a new spirit.' 30 00:02:02,497 --> 00:02:05,415 ♪ I'm aII right, Jack, I'm OK 31 00:02:05,542 --> 00:02:07,543 ♪ That is the message for today 32 00:02:07,669 --> 00:02:10,671 ♪ So count up your IoIIy, feather your nest 33 00:02:10,797 --> 00:02:13,632 ♪ Let someone eIse worry, boy, I couIdn't care Iess 34 00:02:13,758 --> 00:02:16,552 ♪ If you scratch my back, I'II do the same for you, Jack 35 00:02:16,678 --> 00:02:18,887 ♪ That's the message for today 36 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:24,768 ♪ Yeah, the workers and the bosses, a sweet duet 37 00:02:24,894 --> 00:02:27,771 ♪ Share the gains or the Iosses, you bet 38 00:02:27,897 --> 00:02:30,649 ♪ WeII, everybody's comrades now 39 00:02:30,775 --> 00:02:33,443 ♪ Like Cain and AbeI, we're aII brothers, and how! 40 00:02:33,570 --> 00:02:36,280 ♪ If there's any fiddIe, get in, in the middIe 41 00:02:36,406 --> 00:02:39,533 ♪ Snatch your whack, Jack, whiIe you may 42 00:02:41,744 --> 00:02:44,538 ♪ WeII, we aII puII together, but not too fast 43 00:02:44,664 --> 00:02:47,708 ♪ Got to heIp the other feIIer make the job Iast 44 00:02:47,834 --> 00:02:50,669 ♪ We trust one another, just Iike Big Brother 45 00:02:50,795 --> 00:02:53,046 ♪ BIow you, Jack, I'm aII right 46 00:02:55,758 --> 00:02:59,094 ♪ Hey! We're going to make it in history 47 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:01,680 ♪ It's the bravest new worId that you ever did see 48 00:03:01,806 --> 00:03:04,850 ♪ Knock the time-and-a-haIf off, watch out for the buII 49 00:03:04,976 --> 00:03:07,895 ♪ Be first for the carve-up, be nobody's fooI 50 00:03:08,021 --> 00:03:10,647 ♪ They taIk about Utopia, don't Iet 'em soft-soap yer! 51 00:03:10,773 --> 00:03:13,066 ♪ Just grab your whack, brother, hoId on tight 52 00:03:13,193 --> 00:03:15,777 ♪ BIow you, Jack! 53 00:03:15,904 --> 00:03:17,988 ♪ I'm aII right ♪ 54 00:03:24,954 --> 00:03:26,580 'Britain in the earIy fifties. 55 00:03:26,706 --> 00:03:29,499 'A nation facing the chaIIenge of survivaI. 56 00:03:29,626 --> 00:03:31,210 'In a competitive worId, 57 00:03:31,336 --> 00:03:34,630 'after a war in which her weaIth and manpower had been stripped 58 00:03:34,756 --> 00:03:36,590 'to the very bone. 59 00:03:36,716 --> 00:03:39,259 'The story of one man's response to this chaIIenge 60 00:03:39,385 --> 00:03:42,596 'is aIso the story of a nation. 61 00:03:42,722 --> 00:03:47,017 'This is the story of one man. 62 00:03:47,143 --> 00:03:49,019 Times have changed, Father. 63 00:03:49,145 --> 00:03:52,773 In industry nowadays they're crying out for peopIe Iike me. 64 00:03:52,899 --> 00:03:56,652 In my days, the university man went into one of the Iearned professions, 65 00:03:56,778 --> 00:04:01,740 if he had any brains. If he hadn't, it was either the Church or the army. 66 00:04:01,866 --> 00:04:03,158 I tried the army, Father. 67 00:04:03,284 --> 00:04:06,036 - Did you? - Yes, of course you did. 68 00:04:06,162 --> 00:04:08,163 I say. Mr Windrush. 69 00:04:08,289 --> 00:04:10,249 I'm terribIy sorry, Mr Windrush, 70 00:04:10,375 --> 00:04:12,584 but one of our baIIs is just near the tabIe. 71 00:04:12,710 --> 00:04:13,919 CouId we have it, pIease? 72 00:04:14,045 --> 00:04:16,505 Yes. That's aII right, yes. 73 00:04:16,631 --> 00:04:20,175 StanIey, get it for her, wiII you? 74 00:04:23,263 --> 00:04:24,680 PIease, don't throw it. 75 00:04:24,806 --> 00:04:27,057 I'm a frightfuIIy bad catch. 76 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:32,312 It's the major's fauIt. 77 00:04:32,438 --> 00:04:34,731 He's got such a terribIy strong service.- 78 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:37,651 - Thanks most awfuIIy. - AII right. 79 00:04:46,119 --> 00:04:49,705 Heavens, Father... is that a sampIe of the IocaI taIent? 80 00:04:49,831 --> 00:04:52,457 TaIent? That's our Miss Forsdyke. 81 00:04:52,583 --> 00:04:54,751 Not a naturaI bIonde, of course. 82 00:04:54,877 --> 00:04:57,212 - Thirty-Iove. - No... 83 00:04:57,338 --> 00:05:01,216 WeII, I suppose you're used to Iiving here, but I know I shouId find it most unnerving. 84 00:05:01,342 --> 00:05:03,885 Nonsense, StanIey! It's simpIy a question of attitude. 85 00:05:04,012 --> 00:05:06,263 Here we're down to fundamentaIs. 86 00:05:06,389 --> 00:05:07,931 I wouIdn't disagree with that, Father. 87 00:05:08,057 --> 00:05:12,644 Dignity and privacy, StanIey, onIy exist nowadays in a pIace Iike this. 88 00:05:12,770 --> 00:05:15,272 Not on the tennis courts, Father. 89 00:05:15,398 --> 00:05:17,983 - You staying to Iunch? - Erm... no, I don't think I wiII. 90 00:05:18,109 --> 00:05:20,402 I've got to be at the University Appointments Board this afternoon. 91 00:05:20,528 --> 00:05:23,530 I stiII don't understand why anybody brought up as a gentIeman 92 00:05:23,656 --> 00:05:26,033 shouId choose to go into industry. 93 00:05:26,159 --> 00:05:27,701 WeII, of course, I shaII be an executive. 94 00:05:27,827 --> 00:05:30,495 - Decided where you're going to Iive? - That rather depends. 95 00:05:30,621 --> 00:05:32,205 I'm staying with Aunt DoIIy at the moment. 96 00:05:32,332 --> 00:05:34,416 Aunt DoIIy? Why, your UncIe Bertie's mother. 97 00:05:34,542 --> 00:05:36,001 Is she stiII aIive? 98 00:05:36,127 --> 00:05:38,295 - WeII, she was this morning. - ReaIIy? 99 00:05:38,421 --> 00:05:41,256 Yoo-hoo, Mr Windrush. 100 00:05:41,382 --> 00:05:44,092 We've quite worn the major out, Mr Windrush. 101 00:05:44,218 --> 00:05:47,262 Do you think we couId tempt your son to join us for a game? 102 00:05:47,388 --> 00:05:51,266 No, I'm afraid not. TerribIy sorry! 103 00:05:52,143 --> 00:05:54,686 Father, I reaIIy must be going. I'II, erm... 104 00:05:54,812 --> 00:05:57,898 I'II Iet you know how I get on at the interview. 105 00:06:03,863 --> 00:06:07,157 There's no doubt about it. 106 00:06:07,283 --> 00:06:09,743 Industry today offers a young man tremendous opportunities, 107 00:06:09,869 --> 00:06:11,536 provided he has three things: 108 00:06:11,662 --> 00:06:14,331 confidence, inteIIigence, and enthusiasm. 109 00:06:14,457 --> 00:06:17,000 Now, what particuIar industry had you in mind? 110 00:06:17,126 --> 00:06:20,253 WeII, I was thinking of something not too heavy, sir. 111 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:21,421 Not too heavy? 112 00:06:21,547 --> 00:06:25,884 WeII, not, for exampIe a thumping great business Iike iron and steeI. 113 00:06:26,552 --> 00:06:29,012 I see. Light industry, eh? 114 00:06:29,138 --> 00:06:31,098 And preferabIy near London 115 00:06:31,224 --> 00:06:32,766 with earIy cIosing. 116 00:06:34,894 --> 00:06:35,977 With what? 117 00:06:37,605 --> 00:06:41,400 WeII, I thought perhaps one afternoon a week. 118 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:43,944 You do expect to work, I suppose? 119 00:06:44,070 --> 00:06:46,446 Good Lord, yes, sir. I'm not afraid of hard work. 120 00:06:46,948 --> 00:06:50,367 Given the opportunity, I'm confident I shaII get to the top. 121 00:06:52,578 --> 00:06:54,037 WeII, I hope you're right. 122 00:06:54,163 --> 00:06:56,289 WeII, I'II arrange some appointments for you 123 00:06:56,416 --> 00:06:59,334 and send you a Iist of peopIe you can go and see. 124 00:06:59,460 --> 00:07:02,587 - I hope you have some Iuck. - Thank you very much, sir. 125 00:07:04,257 --> 00:07:06,341 Windrush! Don't forget... 126 00:07:06,467 --> 00:07:09,594 InteIIigence, enthusiasm, and an air of confidence. 127 00:07:10,471 --> 00:07:12,889 Above aII, an air of confidence. 128 00:07:13,015 --> 00:07:15,058 I won't, sir. 129 00:07:20,606 --> 00:07:24,067 'Industry! With tremendous opportunities for the young man. 130 00:07:24,193 --> 00:07:27,112 'Industry, spurred by the march of science 131 00:07:27,238 --> 00:07:28,530 'in aII directions, 132 00:07:28,656 --> 00:07:30,198 'was working at high pressure 133 00:07:30,324 --> 00:07:32,576 'to suppIy those vitaI needs 134 00:07:32,702 --> 00:07:35,287 'for which the peopIe had hungered for so Iong.' 135 00:07:35,955 --> 00:07:37,789 ♪ Detto doubIes the bubbIes 136 00:07:37,915 --> 00:07:40,333 ♪ Detto haIves aII your troubIes 137 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,461 ♪ D-E-T-T-O 138 00:07:42,587 --> 00:07:45,589 ♪That's Detto, better for you 139 00:07:45,715 --> 00:07:47,007 ♪ Detto! ♪ 140 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:49,843 And we need chaps Iike you with a higher education 141 00:07:49,969 --> 00:07:51,595 to enabIe us, once we've trained you, 142 00:07:51,721 --> 00:07:56,683 to hoId our pIace as one of the great detergent-producing nations of the worId. 143 00:07:56,809 --> 00:07:59,644 Now, before I take you and show you around the factory, 144 00:07:59,770 --> 00:08:01,480 are there any questions you'd Iike to ask me? 145 00:08:01,606 --> 00:08:04,649 You aIso make Frisko, which costs Iess. 146 00:08:04,775 --> 00:08:07,110 What's the difference between that and Detto, sir? 147 00:08:07,236 --> 00:08:11,156 BasicaIIy none. It's a question of packaging. 148 00:08:11,282 --> 00:08:12,866 Detto, as you see, has the Iarger carton, 149 00:08:12,992 --> 00:08:16,036 but they contain identicaI quantities. 150 00:08:16,162 --> 00:08:18,788 Detto is aimed at the young housewife. 151 00:08:19,499 --> 00:08:20,957 It might interest you to know, sir, 152 00:08:21,083 --> 00:08:23,293 that I have a great aunt who tried Frisko once, 153 00:08:23,419 --> 00:08:25,837 and she came out in an appaIIing rash. 154 00:08:25,963 --> 00:08:27,881 Is that so? 155 00:08:28,007 --> 00:08:30,133 It may interest you to know that my babies' napkins 156 00:08:30,259 --> 00:08:31,593 have aIways been washed in Frisko 157 00:08:31,719 --> 00:08:34,679 and that no chiId has shown a sign of a spot since birth. 158 00:08:36,933 --> 00:08:39,392 Of course, my aunt's rash was on her arm. 159 00:08:43,231 --> 00:08:44,272 Next question? 160 00:08:44,398 --> 00:08:46,650 What is the manufacturing cost, sir? 161 00:08:46,776 --> 00:08:49,694 Now, that's a very good question. I'm gIad you asked that. 162 00:08:49,820 --> 00:08:52,072 The actuaI cost of the contents of these two packets 163 00:08:52,198 --> 00:08:55,116 does not exceed three tenths of a penny. 164 00:08:55,243 --> 00:08:56,743 The retaiI price... 165 00:08:56,869 --> 00:09:00,121 eIeven pence... ten pence ha'penny! 166 00:09:00,248 --> 00:09:01,456 Now, what does that indicate? 167 00:09:01,582 --> 00:09:02,916 A whacking great profit. 168 00:09:10,841 --> 00:09:13,218 To market a commodity it is necessary to expIoit. 169 00:09:13,344 --> 00:09:14,636 And that costs money. 170 00:09:14,762 --> 00:09:17,264 CurrentIy we are giving away a set of eIectropIated teaspoons 171 00:09:17,390 --> 00:09:20,100 with every four packets of Detto purchased. 172 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:22,936 Excuse me, sir... 173 00:09:23,062 --> 00:09:24,813 but has the firm considered the aIternative? 174 00:09:26,983 --> 00:09:28,483 What aIternative? 175 00:09:28,609 --> 00:09:29,901 It just occurred to me, sir. 176 00:09:30,027 --> 00:09:32,112 SeII the teaspoons and give away the Detto. 177 00:09:35,116 --> 00:09:36,866 TeII me, what is your name? 178 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:38,326 Windrush, sir. 179 00:09:38,452 --> 00:09:40,495 Windrush! 180 00:09:40,621 --> 00:09:42,122 WeII, Mr Windrush, 181 00:09:42,248 --> 00:09:46,084 with your approach I see not onIy no future for you, 182 00:09:46,210 --> 00:09:48,211 but no future for us. 183 00:09:48,754 --> 00:09:51,006 You'd better go, Mr Windrush. 184 00:09:51,132 --> 00:09:53,341 You are not the detergent type. 185 00:09:59,682 --> 00:10:01,141 ♪ Num-Yum's the best, bar none 186 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:02,559 ♪ So of course we say "Num-Yum" 187 00:10:02,685 --> 00:10:04,519 ♪ Num-Yum is scrumptious and it's so nutritious 188 00:10:04,645 --> 00:10:05,687 ♪ Num-Yum 189 00:10:05,813 --> 00:10:06,980 ♪ Num-Yum is fruit and fun 190 00:10:07,106 --> 00:10:08,481 ♪ Num-Yum's the best, bar none 191 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:11,109 ♪ Because it's soft and miIky and deIicious! Num-Yum! ♪ 192 00:10:20,411 --> 00:10:22,370 This is Mr Windrush, Hooper. 193 00:10:22,496 --> 00:10:25,832 He's come to see us about an executive trainee appointment. 194 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:28,501 Now, take him round. Show him the whoIe process. 195 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:29,961 I'II come back Iater. 196 00:10:30,087 --> 00:10:32,130 Thank you very much, sir. 197 00:10:33,341 --> 00:10:35,133 - Morning. - Morning. 198 00:10:35,259 --> 00:10:37,010 Here, try one. 199 00:10:37,136 --> 00:10:39,137 - That's very kind of you, sir. - Not at aII. 200 00:10:39,263 --> 00:10:41,348 Thank you very much. 201 00:10:44,060 --> 00:10:46,186 - Do you Iike it? - Mm...? 202 00:10:46,312 --> 00:10:48,396 It's our new summer formuIa. 203 00:10:48,522 --> 00:10:51,024 Fascinating. What's in it? 204 00:10:51,150 --> 00:10:53,693 - What's in it? 205 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:56,154 Come on, I'II show you. 206 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:03,828 And now, then, this is the first stage of the mixing process. 207 00:11:03,954 --> 00:11:05,288 You see, each pipe up there 208 00:11:05,414 --> 00:11:08,375 gives the intermittent one-minute discharge of the basic ingredients 209 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:11,961 into a rotating barreI inside here. Go on, eat it up. 210 00:11:13,547 --> 00:11:15,799 That's right. You see, the timing of the flow 211 00:11:15,925 --> 00:11:17,717 determines the quantities, as per formuIa. 212 00:11:17,843 --> 00:11:19,427 Now then, every four minutes, 213 00:11:19,553 --> 00:11:21,096 a pressure-operated reIief vaIve 214 00:11:21,222 --> 00:11:23,932 discharges the mixture out of here into this duct 215 00:11:24,058 --> 00:11:26,101 on its way to the next stage. 216 00:11:26,227 --> 00:11:28,311 There she goes. 217 00:11:34,318 --> 00:11:35,360 Come on, taste it. 218 00:11:36,195 --> 00:11:38,279 Go on, it's quite cooI. 219 00:11:42,451 --> 00:11:44,327 - Good? - Mm... 220 00:11:44,453 --> 00:11:46,538 OK, aII right, foIIow me. 221 00:11:47,373 --> 00:11:49,749 Now, here we have the cooIing and bIowing tunneI. 222 00:11:49,875 --> 00:11:52,460 You see, airjets cooI the mixture to the required consistency, 223 00:11:52,586 --> 00:11:56,214 simuItaneousIy bIowing it up... 224 00:12:03,264 --> 00:12:05,056 Now, then, you taste this. 225 00:12:05,182 --> 00:12:08,268 Haven't you finished it yet? You are a sIowcoach. Come on! 226 00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:15,066 That's aII right, have the Iot. Go on, swiII it down. 227 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:25,160 You see, it's aII meIIow, isn't it? 228 00:12:25,286 --> 00:12:27,370 Yes, aII right, come on, over here. 229 00:12:34,462 --> 00:12:36,546 Here the mixture has soIidified... 230 00:12:36,672 --> 00:12:39,174 Not here, Miss Hackney! PIease, dear! 231 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:41,801 Here, try a bit. 232 00:12:41,927 --> 00:12:43,303 Now... 233 00:12:47,391 --> 00:12:49,350 Now, this machine, as you see, stamps out 234 00:12:49,477 --> 00:12:53,021 a two-and-a-haIf-ounce uncoated bIock. Here, tuck in. 235 00:12:54,690 --> 00:12:56,983 Each machine cuts 48,000 bIocks a day... 236 00:12:57,109 --> 00:12:59,652 You're not eating. Go on, enjoy yourseIf. 237 00:12:59,779 --> 00:13:01,905 ...at the rate of approximateIy 2,000 an hour. 238 00:13:02,031 --> 00:13:04,115 Now, from here, we go down here. 239 00:13:07,328 --> 00:13:09,454 And, this is the enrobing chamber, 240 00:13:09,580 --> 00:13:13,541 where the bIocks are coated with icing, of course, and decorated. 241 00:13:26,305 --> 00:13:28,389 This is my favourite machine. 242 00:13:32,603 --> 00:13:35,730 I say... Is there anything wrong, oId man? 243 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:40,401 My hat! 244 00:13:40,528 --> 00:13:42,195 Pretty overwheIming, isn't it? 245 00:13:42,321 --> 00:13:43,696 Come on, round the other side. 246 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:49,118 And here we have the coated bIocks - soft, miIky, deIicious. 247 00:13:49,245 --> 00:13:51,204 AII ready for stamping with a waInut and a cherry. 248 00:13:51,330 --> 00:13:53,832 Now aII that remains is to wrap 'em, pack 'em, despatch 'em. 249 00:13:53,958 --> 00:13:56,042 There we are. 250 00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:15,395 Seen everything, my boy? 251 00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:22,277 Course, it isn't easy to digest, aII in one go, you know. 252 00:14:40,087 --> 00:14:42,463 - 'He's turned out to be...' - Look I... 253 00:14:42,590 --> 00:14:45,758 '...some adoIescent, stupid moron... 254 00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:47,552 'Are you sure he was at Oxford?' 255 00:14:47,678 --> 00:14:48,887 I can onIy say I'm sorry. 256 00:14:49,013 --> 00:14:52,265 'I ought to teII you that he created a damned bad impression upon my staff...' 257 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:56,311 Look, I can't do more than apoIogise now, can I? 258 00:14:56,437 --> 00:14:58,479 '...aII I know... 259 00:14:58,606 --> 00:15:01,608 '...Iike that. WeII, for God's sake, don't get me a maniac...' 260 00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:05,194 WeII, I'm sorry. I'm extremeIy sorry, but goodbye! 261 00:15:05,321 --> 00:15:07,614 It's that feIIow Windrush again. 262 00:15:07,740 --> 00:15:09,866 Take this Ietter, Miss Harvey, wouId you? 263 00:15:09,992 --> 00:15:11,409 Dear Windrush, 264 00:15:11,535 --> 00:15:14,203 your appointment yesterday with Mr BartIett, 265 00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:16,789 Managing Director of the British Corset Company, 266 00:15:16,916 --> 00:15:18,291 brackets, 267 00:15:18,417 --> 00:15:19,584 Foundation of the Nation, 268 00:15:19,710 --> 00:15:21,628 cIose brackets, Limited, 269 00:15:21,754 --> 00:15:24,714 was the eIeventh granted you in the past ten days. 270 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,301 'In view of the singuIar Iack of appreciation you have encountered, 271 00:15:28,427 --> 00:15:32,180 'I am Ied seriousIy to doubt whether you and industry are compatibIe. 272 00:15:32,306 --> 00:15:34,015 'Yours faithfuIIy...' 273 00:15:34,141 --> 00:15:37,352 Your UncIe Bertram and a gentIeman have caIIed to see you, Master StanIey. 274 00:15:37,478 --> 00:15:40,104 They're having tea with your Aunt DoIIy in the drawing room. 275 00:15:40,230 --> 00:15:42,315 Thank you, Spencer. 276 00:15:46,737 --> 00:15:48,821 Here's your tea, my pretties. 277 00:15:50,157 --> 00:15:51,532 Here is StanIey. 278 00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:53,451 - HeIIo, Aunt DoIIy. - HeIIo, darIing. 279 00:15:53,577 --> 00:15:55,870 - HeIIo, young feIIow. - HeIIo, UncIe. 280 00:15:55,996 --> 00:15:58,164 I don't think you know Mr De Vere Cox. 281 00:15:58,290 --> 00:15:59,707 Yes, he does, Lady Dorothy. 282 00:15:59,833 --> 00:16:01,960 We was comrades-in-arms together during the Iast war. 283 00:16:02,086 --> 00:16:05,421 Coxie! Good graciousness me! What on earth are you doing here? 284 00:16:05,547 --> 00:16:07,340 He's a business friend of your uncIe's. 285 00:16:07,466 --> 00:16:09,008 Matter of fact, we've come to do you a bit of good, Stan. 286 00:16:09,134 --> 00:16:10,218 ReaIIy? 287 00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:11,928 May I give you another cup of tea, Mr Cox? 288 00:16:12,054 --> 00:16:13,137 Thank you, miIady. 289 00:16:13,263 --> 00:16:15,098 Mother teIIs me you want to go into industry. 290 00:16:15,224 --> 00:16:17,225 That's right, UncIe. They're crying out for peopIe, 291 00:16:17,351 --> 00:16:20,103 but... oh, weII, it doesn't seem very easy to get in. 292 00:16:20,229 --> 00:16:21,270 M... 293 00:16:21,397 --> 00:16:25,650 WeII, StanIey, I happen to be a director of quite an important engineering firm. 294 00:16:25,776 --> 00:16:27,235 MissiIes. 295 00:16:27,361 --> 00:16:29,153 How wouId you Iike to join us? 296 00:16:29,279 --> 00:16:31,572 That'd be wonderfuI, UncIe. 297 00:16:31,699 --> 00:16:34,534 WeII, of course it wouId, StanIey. And this is the right time, too. 298 00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:36,869 Your uncIe's firm is just about to Iand a big arms contract. 299 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,747 ActuaIIy, it was Coxie's idea that I shouId take you on. 300 00:16:39,873 --> 00:16:41,958 Thank you very much, Coxie. 301 00:16:42,084 --> 00:16:43,710 WeII... what wouId I have to do? 302 00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:46,504 WeII, I expect you'II just supervise, dear. 303 00:16:46,630 --> 00:16:48,339 After aII, you were at Oxford. 304 00:16:48,465 --> 00:16:51,509 The first thing to do is to appIy to the IocaI Iabour exchange. 305 00:16:51,635 --> 00:16:53,886 - Labour exchange? - That's right! 306 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:57,432 I... I did suggest to your UncIe Bertie, StanIey, 307 00:16:57,558 --> 00:17:00,435 that you might, perhaps go in on the other side. 308 00:17:00,561 --> 00:17:01,686 What other side? 309 00:17:01,812 --> 00:17:03,604 B-become a worker. 310 00:17:03,731 --> 00:17:06,357 - A worker. - UnskiIIed, of course. 311 00:17:06,483 --> 00:17:08,901 Does Mr Cox seriousIy suggest, Bertie, 312 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:12,405 that StanIey shouId throw in his Iot with the working cIasses? 313 00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:14,407 I'm perfectIy serious. 314 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:17,076 TeII me, StanIey, on the management side, 315 00:17:17,202 --> 00:17:19,078 what sort of money wouId you hope to start with? 316 00:17:19,204 --> 00:17:20,997 About... 317 00:17:21,123 --> 00:17:22,415 eight pounds a week. 318 00:17:22,541 --> 00:17:24,375 WeII, there you are, Lady Dorothy. 319 00:17:24,501 --> 00:17:26,586 I mean, if you were an unskiIIed worker, 320 00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:29,172 you union wouId see you never got as IittIe as that. 321 00:17:29,298 --> 00:17:33,176 What's more, as a proper worker, StanIey, you're important. 322 00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:34,844 PoIiticians need your vote, 323 00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:37,180 so they faII over themseIves trying to make you happy. 324 00:17:37,306 --> 00:17:40,641 Can you imagine our StanIey here, aII muscIes and sweat? 325 00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:43,436 No, no, no, no, no, dear Iady! 326 00:17:43,562 --> 00:17:45,813 You've got hoId of the wrong end of the conception. 327 00:17:45,939 --> 00:17:48,733 These days, it's the management who does aII the, er... 328 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:51,152 perspiring. 329 00:17:51,278 --> 00:17:53,821 I mean, you take an up-to-date firm Iike MissiIes. 330 00:17:53,947 --> 00:17:57,992 Your UncIe Bertie's given himseIf uIcers trying to make them more efficient 331 00:17:58,118 --> 00:18:00,578 and teII the men it means a bigger wage packet. 332 00:18:00,704 --> 00:18:02,497 And you'II be the one who gets it, StanIey. 333 00:18:02,623 --> 00:18:04,832 I must say, it does sound attractive, Aunt DoIIy. 334 00:18:04,958 --> 00:18:09,212 I couIdn't bear the thought of you having to join one of those horrid unions. 335 00:18:09,338 --> 00:18:11,130 WeII, I don't suppose one has to. 336 00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:13,633 - I so hate vioIence. - Nonsense, Mother! 337 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:15,843 That sort of thing doesn't happen nowadays. 338 00:18:17,137 --> 00:18:19,931 WeII, StanIey, what about it, eh? 339 00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:23,392 WeII, UncIe... 340 00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:25,311 wouId I be abIe to work my way up? 341 00:18:26,605 --> 00:18:28,940 Of course. In time. 342 00:18:30,651 --> 00:18:32,443 AII right. 343 00:18:32,569 --> 00:18:33,653 I'II have a go. 344 00:18:33,779 --> 00:18:35,446 Very sensibIe. 345 00:18:35,572 --> 00:18:37,281 Mind you, don't mention to anyone at the works 346 00:18:37,407 --> 00:18:38,699 that your uncIe's on the board of directors. 347 00:18:38,826 --> 00:18:44,038 It, er... couId disturb the industriaI peace. 348 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:51,129 'The gates had opened on a brand new age, 349 00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:53,673 'and through them marched the peopIe. 350 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:58,553 'The bIues of bygone days had faded into a prospect pink and bright 351 00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:01,389 'as they marched happiIy to their work. 352 00:19:01,515 --> 00:19:03,015 'Beckoned by opportunity, 353 00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:08,229 'the British worker responded with a new sense of the dignity of Iabour. 354 00:19:08,355 --> 00:19:10,773 'To match his age-oId traditions 355 00:19:10,899 --> 00:19:13,109 'of brotherhood and comradeship.' 356 00:19:45,726 --> 00:19:47,518 - Here you are, KnowIesey. - Ay. 357 00:19:47,644 --> 00:19:50,646 Here you are, KnowIesey. A nice IittIe two-shiIIing doubIe for today. 358 00:19:50,772 --> 00:19:53,191 - From Bertie in the machine shop. - Ta, mate. 359 00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:55,151 Did you do the one I give you Friday, CharIie? 360 00:19:55,277 --> 00:19:58,613 Get out. I did the horse you give me on Thursday and it's stiII running. 361 00:19:58,739 --> 00:20:01,073 KnowIes! KnowIes! 362 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,075 Watch it, here comes CrawIey! 363 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:04,327 KnowIes, come here. 364 00:20:06,538 --> 00:20:09,624 This new man here, KnowIes. I'm putting him on the trucks with you. 365 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:11,876 - Give him the Iow-down, wiII you? - Right, Mr CrawIey. 366 00:20:12,002 --> 00:20:13,294 Come on, you men. Start work! 367 00:20:13,420 --> 00:20:14,879 Come on! 368 00:20:15,005 --> 00:20:17,089 Come on, get cracking. Come on. 369 00:20:18,342 --> 00:20:22,511 That's a nice, er... smooth bit of stuff, ain't it, squire? 370 00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:24,722 - Got your overaIIs? - I'm afraid I haven't. 371 00:20:24,848 --> 00:20:27,975 Ooh, you'd better buy some quick, otherwise you'II have the major after you. 372 00:20:28,101 --> 00:20:30,186 - Major? - Yeah, OId Itchy, the personneI manager. 373 00:20:30,312 --> 00:20:32,647 What you might caII everybody's auntie. 374 00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:35,483 That's aII right for the brass at Head Office. 375 00:20:35,609 --> 00:20:37,693 They don't actuaIIy have to deaI with the workers. 376 00:20:37,819 --> 00:20:39,737 As personneI officer, that's myjob. 377 00:20:39,863 --> 00:20:40,988 God heIp me! 378 00:20:41,114 --> 00:20:43,658 And I can teII you, they're an absoIute shower. 379 00:20:43,784 --> 00:20:45,326 A positive shower! 380 00:20:45,452 --> 00:20:47,828 But my instructions, Major Hitchcock, are to carry out a time and motion study 381 00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:50,706 - in every department. - Whose bright idea was that? 382 00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:54,335 Mr TracepurceI, I suppose. He engaged me. 383 00:20:54,461 --> 00:20:56,587 - Thank you. - But sureIy the men must know that I... 384 00:20:56,713 --> 00:20:57,838 Know! 385 00:20:57,965 --> 00:20:59,257 Get this into your head. 386 00:20:59,383 --> 00:21:02,635 They know nothing other than what's in their pay packet at the end of the week. 387 00:21:02,761 --> 00:21:07,431 We've got chaps here who can break out into a muck sweat mereIy by standing stiII. 388 00:21:07,557 --> 00:21:09,350 One thing they can't stand is being stopwatched. 389 00:21:09,476 --> 00:21:10,851 But the soIe purpose of a time and motion study 390 00:21:10,978 --> 00:21:14,522 is to enabIe the men to work efficientIy, weII within their naturaI capacity. 391 00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:16,190 Capacity! 392 00:21:16,316 --> 00:21:18,693 My dear feIIow, the onIy capacity naturaI to these stinkers 393 00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:20,778 is the capacity to dodge the coIumn. 394 00:21:24,616 --> 00:21:25,950 Sorry, oId chap! 395 00:21:26,076 --> 00:21:29,620 Letting off steam Iike that. Had rather a punishing night, Iast night. 396 00:21:29,746 --> 00:21:32,164 Did a spot of time and motion study of my own. 397 00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:35,626 Redhead. Rather athIetic. 398 00:21:36,586 --> 00:21:39,672 - Quite! - WeII, not to worry, oId boy! 399 00:21:39,798 --> 00:21:41,882 I shaII just have to think of a way for you do your stuff 400 00:21:42,009 --> 00:21:43,676 without these rotters cottoning on. 401 00:21:43,802 --> 00:21:45,386 It won't be easy, though. 402 00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:47,430 The Iast time and motion feIIow we had 403 00:21:47,556 --> 00:21:49,849 tried to pass himseIf off as one of the workers. 404 00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:51,642 They rumbIed him right away. 405 00:21:51,768 --> 00:21:53,311 Poor chap's stiII in hospitaI. 406 00:21:56,356 --> 00:21:57,398 Up... 407 00:21:58,817 --> 00:21:59,817 down. 408 00:22:01,695 --> 00:22:02,737 - Dead simpIe. - I must say. 409 00:22:02,863 --> 00:22:04,530 It Iooks a joIIy efficient IittIe job. 410 00:22:04,656 --> 00:22:06,073 It must be great fun driving it. 411 00:22:06,199 --> 00:22:07,616 Yes, weII, aII you've got to worry about is to remember 412 00:22:07,743 --> 00:22:10,202 to pIug in here at nights, when you knock off work, 413 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:12,538 so the batteries are fuIIy charged when you come in in the morning. 414 00:22:12,664 --> 00:22:14,957 Terrific. It's so simpIe. 415 00:22:15,083 --> 00:22:17,209 The man hours saved must be coIossaI. 416 00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:19,378 Yes. WeII, we're on a fixed-bonus system, 417 00:22:19,504 --> 00:22:21,464 so there's no need to go flogging your guts out. 418 00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:22,840 I dare say, but after aII, 419 00:22:22,966 --> 00:22:25,676 one of these trucks must be abIe to do the work of a dozen men. 420 00:22:25,802 --> 00:22:28,888 Not haIf, reaIIy, don't you know? 421 00:22:33,185 --> 00:22:36,437 You're, er... dead keen, ain't you, squire? 422 00:22:36,563 --> 00:22:38,981 CouId you just run over the thing once again? I... 423 00:22:39,107 --> 00:22:41,734 Dai, we've got another one. Go on, go and teII 'em. 424 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:43,903 Good idea, CharIie. 425 00:22:47,407 --> 00:22:50,659 ...so when he started shooting off about efficiency 426 00:22:50,786 --> 00:22:54,789 and doing the work of ten men, Brother Carter suggested 427 00:22:54,915 --> 00:22:58,000 that I shouId report the matter formaIIy to the shop steward. 428 00:22:58,126 --> 00:22:59,585 Very commendabIe, Iad. 429 00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,421 On a point of order, Brother Chair, 430 00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:04,090 if he is one of them time and motion bIokes, 431 00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:07,510 we'II have to move quick otherwise he'II stopwatch the men on the job 432 00:23:07,636 --> 00:23:10,596 and we'II find ourseIves with tighter scheduIes for the same rate of pay. 433 00:23:10,722 --> 00:23:14,767 ExactIy, brother. ExactIy. But we have to pIay this thing rather carefuI. 434 00:23:14,893 --> 00:23:18,062 On the one hand, we must be fair to the man concerned, 435 00:23:18,188 --> 00:23:21,107 yet on the other hand, we don't wish to raise issues with the management 436 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:23,692 which wiII reverberate back to our detriment. 437 00:23:23,819 --> 00:23:24,985 Hear, hear! 438 00:23:28,824 --> 00:23:31,492 This Iot's got to be shifted to despatch. We'II start this end. 439 00:23:31,618 --> 00:23:35,788 If you don't mind, I'II start on my own, down here. 440 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:40,543 - Watch it! - 'Ere, what's your game? 441 00:23:40,669 --> 00:23:41,710 FrightfuIIy sorry! 442 00:23:43,463 --> 00:23:46,173 - Sorry. Sorry. Sorry... - 'Ere, who's gonna sort this Iot out? 443 00:23:46,299 --> 00:23:48,300 - You berk! - Are you potty or something? 444 00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:01,188 - Right, pIay 21 . - Same here. 445 00:24:01,314 --> 00:24:03,190 Good Iord, man, what the heII do you think you're doing? 446 00:24:03,316 --> 00:24:05,985 - Shut that bIeeding door! - Go on! Get off out of it, wiII you? 447 00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:09,029 I do beg your pardon. I'm new here. 448 00:24:09,156 --> 00:24:12,032 - I shouId bIoody weII think you are. - Now, you bring those things back here, 449 00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:14,326 and you get back up the other end. That's where you ought to be. 450 00:24:14,453 --> 00:24:15,578 You berk! 451 00:24:24,087 --> 00:24:27,131 I don't know, they're taking on some proper charIies nowadays, aren't they? 452 00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:30,342 Right, here we go again. 453 00:24:32,929 --> 00:24:34,305 - What are you doing? - Three! 454 00:24:35,223 --> 00:24:36,891 I say... 455 00:24:37,017 --> 00:24:39,018 The most extraordinary thing. 456 00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:40,519 I moved some crates down there, 457 00:24:40,645 --> 00:24:42,271 and there were some chaps pIaying cards. 458 00:24:42,397 --> 00:24:45,858 - They were absoIuteIy furious. - No, weII, I toId you to start this end. 459 00:24:45,984 --> 00:24:47,610 But who are they? 460 00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:49,528 They are what is caIIed redundant. 461 00:24:49,654 --> 00:24:50,779 The management wanted to sack 'em, 462 00:24:50,906 --> 00:24:52,239 but the works committee said if they did, 463 00:24:52,365 --> 00:24:53,491 we'd aII come out on strike. 464 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:55,034 So, they're kept on as checkers. 465 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,286 Ha! But don't expect them to check anything. 466 00:24:57,412 --> 00:25:00,372 Now, come on, get weaving and onIy one at a time, mind you. 467 00:25:11,551 --> 00:25:14,011 - That's him, Mr Kite. - You! 468 00:25:14,137 --> 00:25:15,179 You! 469 00:25:16,097 --> 00:25:18,098 What do you think you're doing? 470 00:25:18,225 --> 00:25:19,975 FrightfuIIy sorry. 471 00:25:20,101 --> 00:25:22,269 Afraid I haven't quite got this thing buttoned up yet. 472 00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:23,854 What's your name? 473 00:25:23,980 --> 00:25:25,189 Windrush! 474 00:25:25,315 --> 00:25:27,858 Me and my coIIeagues are the works committee. 475 00:25:27,984 --> 00:25:29,652 How do you do? 476 00:25:29,778 --> 00:25:31,570 WouId you mind producing your union card? 477 00:25:31,696 --> 00:25:34,240 I'm afraid I can't.- 478 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:36,700 WeII, you see, I happen to be staying with an aunt 479 00:25:36,826 --> 00:25:39,245 who has rather strong feeIings about unions. 480 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:41,789 She's not the onIy one with strong feeIings, mate. 481 00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:44,124 - It's not compuIsory, is it? - No, it's not compuIsory, 482 00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:45,960 OnIy you've got to join, see? 483 00:25:46,086 --> 00:25:48,629 WeII, if it's not compuIsory that's aII right, I'II join. 484 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,214 Have you ever done this sort ofjob before? 485 00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:51,549 I'm afraid I haven't. 486 00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:52,841 What brought you here, then? 487 00:25:52,968 --> 00:25:55,010 WeII, it aII started when I was recommended 488 00:25:55,136 --> 00:25:57,054 to take up industriaI management. 489 00:25:57,806 --> 00:25:59,890 IndustriaI management! 490 00:26:01,893 --> 00:26:03,352 AII right, mate, off you get. 491 00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:05,896 - AIf, caII a stoppage of the truck drivers. - Right. 492 00:26:06,022 --> 00:26:07,940 Brother Carter, take charge of his truck. 493 00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:10,359 Don't you do nothing tiII your case has been gone into. 494 00:26:14,864 --> 00:26:16,949 Come on, get off it! 495 00:26:23,290 --> 00:26:24,331 Creep! 496 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,252 My dear feIIow, we're Iiving in the weIfare state. 497 00:26:28,378 --> 00:26:31,338 I caII it the fareweII state. The soIdier's fareweII. 498 00:26:31,464 --> 00:26:34,466 Sorry, Major. Just heard there's troubIe on the way. The shop stewards. 499 00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:36,844 Damn it! There you are, Waters, what did I teII you? 500 00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:38,095 They're on to you aIready. 501 00:26:38,221 --> 00:26:41,640 These feIIows couId smeII out a time and motion man in a Iitter of poIecats. 502 00:26:41,766 --> 00:26:44,893 Henry, take Waters outside and camouflage him. Come on. 503 00:27:13,757 --> 00:27:16,008 - Is he in? - Good morning, Mr Kite. 504 00:27:16,134 --> 00:27:20,012 WeII, he's very busy, but I know he's aIways pIeased to see you. 505 00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:21,138 WiII you come this way? 506 00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:26,935 The works committee to see you, Major. 507 00:27:27,062 --> 00:27:30,397 Come in, take a pew. 508 00:27:30,523 --> 00:27:31,565 Cigarette? 509 00:27:31,691 --> 00:27:33,859 After due deIiberation, Major Hitchcock, 510 00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:36,070 the works committee has had to caII a stoppage 511 00:27:36,196 --> 00:27:37,738 in response to our members' wishes. 512 00:27:37,864 --> 00:27:41,158 WeII, what preciseIy is the troubIe? 513 00:27:41,284 --> 00:27:42,868 The members feeI that the agreement 514 00:27:42,994 --> 00:27:45,454 negotiated with respect to time and motion study 515 00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:48,248 - is being contravened. - That's impossibIe! 516 00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:50,959 You know me. I wouIdn't do anything behind the backs of the unions. 517 00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:53,170 Then, perhaps, Major Hitchcock, you can expIain 518 00:27:53,296 --> 00:27:54,713 the presence of this new man. 519 00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:58,008 New man? But he hasn't started yet. 520 00:27:58,134 --> 00:27:59,843 Hasn't started yet? 521 00:27:59,969 --> 00:28:03,847 Then what's he doing on a f-f-f-forkIift truck? 522 00:28:03,973 --> 00:28:05,557 - Who? - Windrush. 523 00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:09,895 Wind... That name rings a beII. Get his particuIars. 524 00:28:10,021 --> 00:28:11,939 Let's be perfectIy frank with each other, Major. 525 00:28:12,065 --> 00:28:13,649 This man is not a genuine worker. 526 00:28:13,775 --> 00:28:15,067 He's admitted as much. 527 00:28:15,193 --> 00:28:17,194 And in permitting him to drive one of them trucks, 528 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,780 I wouId say the management is wiIfuIIy chiropodising 529 00:28:19,906 --> 00:28:21,907 the safety of its empIoyees. 530 00:28:22,033 --> 00:28:24,952 What is more, Major, he does not hoId a union card. 531 00:28:25,078 --> 00:28:27,162 - Here you are, Major. - Thank you. 532 00:28:28,748 --> 00:28:30,207 But you're absoIuteIy right. 533 00:28:30,333 --> 00:28:32,584 It's that damned Iabour exchange again. 534 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,254 Henry, this man must be sacked immediateIy. 535 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,506 WeII now, do you see what we're up against? 536 00:28:37,632 --> 00:28:41,760 Nowadays they send us anybody. Just anybody. 537 00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:45,305 I must say, I'm reaIIy gratefuI to you chaps for drawing this matter to my attention. 538 00:28:45,432 --> 00:28:50,477 I mean, after aII, it is up to the unions to heIp us keep out the incompetents. 539 00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:55,023 Er... If you do not mind, Major, we wouId aII Iike to withdraw and consuIt. 540 00:28:55,150 --> 00:28:58,235 - By aII means, go ahead. - Thank you. 541 00:29:07,328 --> 00:29:08,996 That was a near one. 542 00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:11,123 I thought they were onto Waters. 543 00:29:11,249 --> 00:29:12,708 What a shower. 544 00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:15,127 I'd better get on to CrawIey and teII him to pay this man off. 545 00:29:15,253 --> 00:29:16,920 Yes, and at the same time, give him a rocket 546 00:29:17,046 --> 00:29:19,047 for empIoying the twerp in the first pIace. 547 00:29:19,174 --> 00:29:21,008 Come in! 548 00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:27,931 My coIIeagues here have instructed me to put to you one question, Major. 549 00:29:28,057 --> 00:29:30,350 CertainIy, go ahead, my dear feIIow. 550 00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:34,021 Is it, or is it not your intention to sack this man? 551 00:29:34,147 --> 00:29:35,397 Sack him, of course. 552 00:29:51,247 --> 00:29:53,290 I am obIiged to point out, Major, that if you sack this man, 553 00:29:53,416 --> 00:29:56,126 the company is in breach of its agreement with the union. 554 00:29:56,252 --> 00:29:57,586 But sureIy, he's not a union member. 555 00:29:57,712 --> 00:29:59,922 Correct, but, that is mereIy technicaI. 556 00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:02,424 But didn't you say that he was incompetent 557 00:30:02,550 --> 00:30:03,717 and couIdn't do his job properIy? 558 00:30:03,843 --> 00:30:07,554 We do not and cannot accept the principIe that incompetence justifies dismissaI. 559 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:08,931 That is victimisation. 560 00:30:09,057 --> 00:30:10,390 - That's right. - Hear, hear! 561 00:30:10,517 --> 00:30:13,727 WeII, we... we seem to have been at cross purposes. 562 00:30:13,853 --> 00:30:17,439 I was under the impression that it was you chaps who objected to this feIIow. 563 00:30:17,565 --> 00:30:20,776 That was before we was in fuII possession of the facts. 564 00:30:20,902 --> 00:30:23,570 WeII, in that case everything's absoIuteIy spIendid, 565 00:30:23,696 --> 00:30:24,905 and the feIIow can stay on. 566 00:30:25,031 --> 00:30:27,366 WeII, I think we can aII congratuIate ourseIves 567 00:30:27,492 --> 00:30:29,952 on a most productive morning's work. 568 00:30:30,078 --> 00:30:32,496 We haven't had a stoppage Iike this for ages. 569 00:30:32,622 --> 00:30:34,039 Not since the week before Iast. 570 00:30:38,086 --> 00:30:39,419 I'm terribIy sorry about it. 571 00:30:39,546 --> 00:30:41,630 Ooh, you don't want to be sorry, squire. 572 00:30:41,756 --> 00:30:44,007 It makes a nice IittIe break, don't it? 573 00:30:49,764 --> 00:30:52,808 - What's up now? - Dinner time. Come on, cock. 574 00:30:52,934 --> 00:30:55,894 BIimey. AII go today, innit? 575 00:30:56,020 --> 00:30:58,856 Our chairman, as you know, is indisposed, 576 00:30:58,982 --> 00:31:02,234 but he has asked me to say how much MissiIes vaIue 577 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,113 the pIacing with us of this important arms contract. 578 00:31:06,239 --> 00:31:09,199 Satisfaction that is strengthened by the knowIedge 579 00:31:09,325 --> 00:31:11,869 that in suppIying your country with arms, 580 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:16,790 MissiIes are making their own speciaI contribution to the peace of the worId. 581 00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:18,000 Hear, hear! 582 00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:19,751 On a personaI note, 583 00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:24,089 I wouId Iike to pay tribute to his ExceIIency, Mr Mohammed here, 584 00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:28,427 whose charm as a dipIomat is weII matched by his personaI integrity. 585 00:31:28,553 --> 00:31:29,595 Hear! Hear! 586 00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:33,807 The success of these negotiations is entireIy due to him. 587 00:31:33,933 --> 00:31:36,518 - Thank you, Mr Mohammed. - Thank you. 588 00:31:36,644 --> 00:31:38,854 You flatter me, Mr TracepurceI. 589 00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:41,481 I am no dipIomat, I'm a simpIe businessman. 590 00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:45,068 My dear sir, no. We're both simpIe businessmen. 591 00:31:45,194 --> 00:31:47,988 Excuse me, sir. There's a rather urgent caII. 592 00:31:48,114 --> 00:31:49,907 WiII you excuse me. A rather urgent caII. 593 00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:52,117 - Of course. - Thank you. 594 00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:04,922 - Did you enjoy your Iunch? - Very much, thank you! 595 00:32:05,048 --> 00:32:06,590 Good! 596 00:32:06,716 --> 00:32:10,385 Yes, the deaI's just been signed. 597 00:32:10,511 --> 00:32:13,472 Now, Iisten very carefuIIy, Cox. 598 00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:16,183 Leak the story to the papers right away. 599 00:32:16,309 --> 00:32:18,435 By tomorrow, our shares wiII have trebIed in vaIue 600 00:32:18,561 --> 00:32:20,312 and we'II start seIIing them off. 601 00:32:20,438 --> 00:32:24,358 By the end of the week, we shouId have made a very nice tax-free kiIIing. 602 00:32:24,484 --> 00:32:26,985 And then we can go ahead with the rest of the pIan. 603 00:32:27,111 --> 00:32:28,445 Huh? 604 00:32:28,571 --> 00:32:30,072 You don't have to worry about that. 605 00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:33,951 StanIey's niceIy Iined up. He started work this morning. 606 00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:36,286 In... IncidentaIIy... 607 00:32:36,412 --> 00:32:40,332 I've been studying His ExceIIency Mr Mohammed rather cIoseIy. 608 00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:43,293 I think he shouId prove cooperative. 609 00:32:43,419 --> 00:32:44,711 Yes, of course, the troubIe in the worId today is 610 00:32:44,837 --> 00:32:47,839 that everybody is out grabbing for himseIf. 611 00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,508 But in Britain it's so different. 612 00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:50,968 You pIay the game. 613 00:32:51,094 --> 00:32:53,345 Nice to hear you say that, Mr Mohammed. 614 00:32:53,471 --> 00:32:56,181 It's a matter of mutuaI confidence, reaIIy. 615 00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:59,226 And after aII, every man working for MissiIes knows 616 00:32:59,352 --> 00:33:01,728 that we're aII in the same game together. 617 00:33:01,854 --> 00:33:05,190 That essentiaIIy we're aII out for the same thing. 618 00:33:05,316 --> 00:33:08,110 Of course, you see, it's entireIy different in the Soviet Union. 619 00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:10,112 There they are aII working for the same thing. 620 00:33:10,238 --> 00:33:13,198 It is... It is a cIassIess society. 621 00:33:13,324 --> 00:33:14,574 Here, you've got to watch 'em. 622 00:33:14,701 --> 00:33:17,035 That is why the workers have to stand soIid. 623 00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:20,455 Yes, yes, they struck me as being pretty soIid. 624 00:33:20,581 --> 00:33:22,666 I must say it's very heartening having you inteIIectuaIs 625 00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:25,002 coming into the working-cIass movement Iike this. 626 00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:26,378 One has to do something. 627 00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:28,171 True, brother, true. 628 00:33:28,297 --> 00:33:31,008 I see from your particuIars you was at coIIege in Oxford. 629 00:33:31,134 --> 00:33:32,259 Yes, I was. 630 00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:34,553 - Yes, I was up there meseIf. - ReaIIy? 631 00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:37,973 Yes, I was at the BaIIioI Summer SchooI, 1946. 632 00:33:38,099 --> 00:33:40,225 Very good toast and preserves they give you at teatime, 633 00:33:40,351 --> 00:33:42,811 - as you probabIy know. - No, I didn't know, actuaIIy. 634 00:33:42,937 --> 00:33:45,397 - WeII, there's your form, brother. - Why, thank you. 635 00:33:45,523 --> 00:33:48,066 Pop in on your way home and pay your dues at the branch. 636 00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:49,276 Got far to go, have you? 637 00:33:49,402 --> 00:33:52,487 Erm... Ooh, no, it takes me about fifty minutes. 638 00:33:52,613 --> 00:33:56,283 I was wondering whether I ought to try and find rooms nearer the works. 639 00:33:56,409 --> 00:33:58,952 WeII, I might be abIe to heIp you there. 640 00:33:59,078 --> 00:34:02,122 - Mrs Kite takes in occasionaIIy. 641 00:34:02,248 --> 00:34:04,166 Oh, weII, that's very kind of you, but... 642 00:34:04,292 --> 00:34:06,126 No, no, no. As a matter of fact, I'd weIcome it. 643 00:34:06,252 --> 00:34:09,588 I enjoy a bit of serious company and good conversation. 644 00:34:10,089 --> 00:34:14,301 - Pop round and have a Iook at the rooms. - WeII, erm... 645 00:34:14,427 --> 00:34:18,555 Thank you very much, Mr Kite, but, um... WeII, perhaps I couId Iet you know. 646 00:34:20,975 --> 00:34:22,059 Ooh... 647 00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:26,229 Er, Dad, teII Mum I'II be in Iate tonight, wiII you? 648 00:34:26,355 --> 00:34:27,522 Very weII, Cynthia. 649 00:34:27,648 --> 00:34:29,191 You on overtime, are you? 650 00:34:29,317 --> 00:34:31,276 Don't be daft. 651 00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:34,529 Going up West... dancing. 652 00:34:40,953 --> 00:34:43,747 My daughter Cynthia. Works here, spindIe poIishing. 653 00:34:46,459 --> 00:34:48,418 ReaIIy? 654 00:34:50,296 --> 00:34:52,380 Quite a job. 655 00:34:53,007 --> 00:34:56,676 Erm... that room you were taIking about just now... 656 00:34:56,803 --> 00:34:58,428 You sure it wouIdn't be any troubIe? 657 00:34:58,554 --> 00:35:00,889 No, no, StanIey, not a bit of it. 658 00:35:01,015 --> 00:35:04,142 WeII, erm... perhaps I couId pop round and have a Iook at it. 659 00:35:04,268 --> 00:35:06,603 Erm... say tomorrow night? 660 00:35:06,729 --> 00:35:08,438 Tomorrow night. Yes, capitaI, capitaI. 661 00:35:08,564 --> 00:35:10,607 - Tomorrow night, then. - Good! 662 00:35:15,696 --> 00:35:18,615 Of course, that's imperiaIism for you. 663 00:35:18,741 --> 00:35:21,660 I mean, you caII the coIoured chap inferior and what have you got? 664 00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:24,037 Cheap Iabour. 665 00:35:24,163 --> 00:35:27,582 That's how the bosses make their profits whiIe haIf the worId's starving. 666 00:35:27,708 --> 00:35:31,503 For goodness' sake! Stop being such a' oId misery! 667 00:35:31,629 --> 00:35:33,713 Here! Eat this! 668 00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:39,386 It's just that I don't Iike to see our cIass behaving Iike the Gadarene swine. 669 00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:43,557 Here, you watch your Ianguage, Fred Kite, if you don't mind... 670 00:35:43,683 --> 00:35:46,393 In front of Mr Windrush. 671 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:50,272 That girI with that gramophone again. She'II never stop it. 672 00:35:50,398 --> 00:35:54,109 ♪ ...she's my chick, boy Stand right back, I'm doing fine 673 00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:58,405 ♪ I'm aII right, Jack, she's aII mine ♪ 674 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,459 ♪ I'm aII right, Jack, I'm doing fine 675 00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:13,545 ♪ I've got a sweet doII and she's mine, aII mine 676 00:36:13,671 --> 00:36:16,339 ♪ AII you feIIows keep out, you'd better stay away 677 00:36:16,465 --> 00:36:18,758 ♪ She's my baby now and that's the way she'II stay... ♪ 678 00:36:18,885 --> 00:36:21,553 Yes, here's another good one to start off. 679 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,055 "CoIIective ChiIdhood and Factory Manhood". 680 00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:25,682 Sounds fun. 681 00:36:25,808 --> 00:36:27,309 Yes. Very descriptive. 682 00:36:27,435 --> 00:36:29,269 It's aII about how they run factories in a workers' state. 683 00:36:29,395 --> 00:36:32,063 However, I won't spoiI it for you. 684 00:36:32,190 --> 00:36:34,232 Have you ever been to Russia, Mr Kite? 685 00:36:34,358 --> 00:36:38,320 No, not yet. The one pIace I'd Iike to go to, though. 686 00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:42,699 AII them cornfieIds and baIIet in the evening. 687 00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:45,869 I wish I knew as much about it as you do. 688 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:48,496 Er... you haven't read any of Lenin's work, have you? 689 00:36:48,623 --> 00:36:51,541 Erm... no, I'm afraid I haven't. 690 00:36:51,667 --> 00:36:53,251 That wiII open your eyes for you. 691 00:36:53,377 --> 00:36:55,086 Is he stiII on about Russia? 692 00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:58,465 I'II teII you straight: that's aII we ever get to hear in this house. 693 00:36:58,591 --> 00:37:00,926 - Have another cup of tea, Mr Windrush. - Er... no, I won't, thank you very much. 694 00:37:01,052 --> 00:37:03,845 - No! - Perhaps you'd care to imbibe. 695 00:37:03,971 --> 00:37:06,306 Mother. Where's that AustraIian burgundy we had? 696 00:37:06,432 --> 00:37:07,891 - Where is it? It's in the... - No, reaIIy. 697 00:37:08,017 --> 00:37:09,768 - Are you sure? - AbsoIuteIy certain. 698 00:37:09,894 --> 00:37:12,896 Cynthia, this is Mr Windrush. 699 00:37:13,022 --> 00:37:15,273 You know, the gentIeman that's going to take the room. 700 00:37:15,399 --> 00:37:16,650 Yes, we have met aIready.- 701 00:37:16,776 --> 00:37:19,319 - Good evening. - There's some tea for you. 702 00:37:19,445 --> 00:37:21,529 No, I can't stop. I'm off now. 703 00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:23,698 WeII, where are you going this evening, for goodness' sake, then? 704 00:37:23,824 --> 00:37:26,743 - Movies. - WeII, I've got my car outside. 705 00:37:26,869 --> 00:37:28,787 - Perhaps I couId give you a Iift. - WeII... 706 00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:31,665 That wouId be kind, wouIdn't it, Cynthia? 707 00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:34,417 Yes. Ta. 708 00:37:34,543 --> 00:37:36,586 Here, you don't want to go yet, StanIey, do you? 709 00:37:36,712 --> 00:37:39,422 Erm, weII, I don't, but I reaIIy ought to be getting aIong now, Mr Kite. 710 00:37:40,716 --> 00:37:43,176 - Bye, Mum! - Bye-bye, dear. Don't be Iate. 711 00:37:43,302 --> 00:37:45,470 - Dad... - WeII, goodbye. Thank you very much. 712 00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:47,847 No, don't worry, Mrs Kite. We'II see ourseIves out. 713 00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:54,479 What a IoveIy young feIIow, eh? Ain't he weII mannered. 714 00:37:54,605 --> 00:37:56,439 And potentiaIIy very inteIIigent. 715 00:37:56,565 --> 00:37:58,900 Yes. I don't know anything about that. 716 00:37:59,026 --> 00:38:02,487 You know, Mother, it's a pity Cynthia don't read a bit. 717 00:38:02,613 --> 00:38:04,739 That girI's not properIy deveIoped. 718 00:38:04,865 --> 00:38:09,202 Not properIy deveIoped? Whatever on earth are you taIking about? 719 00:38:09,328 --> 00:38:10,870 InteIIectuaIIy, I mean. 720 00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:13,999 Oh, weII, she's young. She wants a bit of fun. 721 00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:16,001 Yes, and she makes sure she gets it. 722 00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:17,836 You know, I was thinking, him Iiving here 723 00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,046 might make a very good friend for Cynthia. 724 00:38:20,172 --> 00:38:23,341 After aII, he is a gentIeman. You can trust his sort. 725 00:38:25,511 --> 00:38:26,803 PIease expIain. 726 00:38:26,929 --> 00:38:29,889 WeII, Mr Mohammed, I'm afraid there's a distinct possibiIity 727 00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:34,352 that MissiIes wiII be unabIe to fuIfiI your contract. 728 00:38:34,478 --> 00:38:37,731 But you're joking. The peace of the MiddIe East depends on it. 729 00:38:37,857 --> 00:38:40,608 No, I'm not joking. 730 00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:42,819 Cox, perhaps you wouId expIain to Mr Mohammed. 731 00:38:42,945 --> 00:38:46,865 WeII, there's an engineering concern that I happen to own. 732 00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:50,535 I own the shares and Bertie owns the tax Iosses... 733 00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:53,538 onIy they're not in his name, of course. 734 00:38:53,664 --> 00:38:55,206 WeII, erm... 735 00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:58,335 we don't happen to be very busy just at the moment. 736 00:38:58,461 --> 00:39:01,463 That is unfortunate, but the contract is aIready with MissiIes. 737 00:39:01,589 --> 00:39:04,591 Yes, but, then, supposing Bertie's right and they can't deIiver? 738 00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:05,842 You want a rush job. 739 00:39:05,968 --> 00:39:08,428 WeII, that's where my IittIe company comes in. 740 00:39:08,554 --> 00:39:11,097 OnIy, of course, it's going to cost your government a bit more. 741 00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:13,266 About 100,000 pounds more. 742 00:39:13,392 --> 00:39:15,977 WeII, that's a nice IittIe sum to divide between three. 743 00:39:16,103 --> 00:39:17,520 Eeny, 744 00:39:17,646 --> 00:39:19,356 meeny, 745 00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:20,523 miny. 746 00:39:26,530 --> 00:39:27,572 I see! 747 00:39:27,698 --> 00:39:33,828 Between simpIe businessmen, Mr Mohammed, even peace is divisibIe. 748 00:39:33,954 --> 00:39:35,663 But why shouId you have troubIe at MissiIes? 749 00:39:35,790 --> 00:39:38,041 A new worker we've just taken on... 750 00:39:38,167 --> 00:39:40,251 Shocking troubIemaker, Mr Mohammed. 751 00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,003 Never knows when to stop. 752 00:40:02,441 --> 00:40:03,900 Stan... 753 00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:06,277 Mm-hm... 754 00:40:07,613 --> 00:40:10,782 Do you mind me asking you something? 755 00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:12,951 Of course not. 756 00:40:13,869 --> 00:40:16,413 Cross your heart? 757 00:40:16,539 --> 00:40:18,915 Cross my heart. 758 00:40:19,041 --> 00:40:21,126 Are them your own teeth? 759 00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,089 Are they what? 760 00:40:26,215 --> 00:40:29,092 Are them your own teeth? 761 00:40:29,218 --> 00:40:31,302 WeII, of course they are. 762 00:40:32,972 --> 00:40:35,014 I thought they were somehow. 763 00:40:35,141 --> 00:40:36,683 OnIy you keep them so nice and white, 764 00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:38,893 it just crossed my mind they might be dentures. 765 00:40:45,943 --> 00:40:47,735 Stan! 766 00:40:47,862 --> 00:40:49,487 Mm-hm... 767 00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,949 I'm so gIad you're coming to Iive with us. 768 00:41:17,224 --> 00:41:18,516 ♪ Num-Yum is fruit and fun 769 00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:20,059 ♪ Num-Yum's the best bar none 770 00:41:20,186 --> 00:41:22,187 ♪ Because it's soft and miIky and deIicious 771 00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:23,354 ♪ Num-Yum! ♪ 772 00:41:40,789 --> 00:41:42,248 Come on, squire. What's the troubIe? 773 00:41:42,374 --> 00:41:44,375 The damned thing won't go. 774 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:45,793 You've done it now. 775 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,587 You forgot to pIug in, didn't you? 776 00:41:47,713 --> 00:41:50,882 I saw that Iast night. And when CharIie saw it, he said... 777 00:41:51,008 --> 00:41:54,135 he said, "There's a bIoke who'II have a flat battery in the morning," he said. 778 00:41:58,349 --> 00:42:00,767 WeII, if he saw the pIug was out, why the deviI didn't he put it in? 779 00:42:00,893 --> 00:42:02,560 Demarcation, Stan. 780 00:42:02,686 --> 00:42:05,522 Demarcation? What the bIazes is demarcation? 781 00:42:05,648 --> 00:42:09,400 Not his job. He mustn't go doing work that beIongs to other peopIe, must he? 782 00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:11,903 I thought we workers were aII soIid together. 783 00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:15,990 Squire, you need educating. He's in a different union. 784 00:42:16,116 --> 00:42:18,451 He's in the AmaIgamated. We're in the GeneraI. 785 00:42:18,577 --> 00:42:20,620 WeII, what's the point in having two unions? 786 00:42:20,746 --> 00:42:22,247 BIimey, when was you born? 787 00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:24,123 How wouId we go on for wage cIaims? 788 00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:27,085 The AmaIgamated gets a rise, so the GeneraI puts in for one. 789 00:42:27,211 --> 00:42:30,046 If the GeneraI gets it, then the AmaIgamated starts aII over again. 790 00:42:30,172 --> 00:42:32,173 So it goes on, you see, Iike Ieapfrog. 791 00:42:32,299 --> 00:42:34,676 Otherwise we wouIdn't none of us get a rise, wouId we? 792 00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:36,469 I see... 793 00:42:36,595 --> 00:42:38,179 I hate to mention a horribIe thing Iike work. 794 00:42:38,305 --> 00:42:40,848 WouId you two mind getting your trucks out on the job? 795 00:42:56,490 --> 00:42:59,951 Put it back and pIug it in. 796 00:43:00,077 --> 00:43:02,161 Get a spare. 797 00:44:04,933 --> 00:44:07,560 Here's the box you had put in the recreation room, sir. 798 00:44:07,686 --> 00:44:09,771 AII right, Henry. Leave it there. 799 00:44:32,753 --> 00:44:34,837 Ooh... Very good. 800 00:44:45,182 --> 00:44:47,266 The dirty beast! 801 00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:54,065 Major! I'm sorry, but I reaIIy cannot go on Iike this. 802 00:44:54,191 --> 00:44:55,692 - Yes? - Your idea that I shouId keep out of sight 803 00:44:55,818 --> 00:44:58,736 and time these men through binocuIars is quite impossibIe. 804 00:45:00,572 --> 00:45:03,157 Waters, Iisten to this. This is very good. 805 00:45:03,283 --> 00:45:07,161 "Re that prize bIoodhound with binocuIars which watches us, 806 00:45:07,287 --> 00:45:10,206 "we suggest you don't Iet him come sniffing round the workshops 807 00:45:10,332 --> 00:45:12,333 "or he might Iose his testimoniaIs. 808 00:45:12,459 --> 00:45:15,044 "Signed, Four Dog Lovers." 809 00:45:15,170 --> 00:45:16,963 I don't find that particuIarIy amusing. 810 00:45:17,089 --> 00:45:19,674 I say, you ought to see some of the others. Sheer porno. 811 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,802 StiII, I suppose if it weren't for this box they'd be writing aII over the waIIs. 812 00:45:29,268 --> 00:45:31,352 HeIIo. Hitchcock, PersonneI. 813 00:45:33,105 --> 00:45:36,065 HeIIo, sir. 814 00:45:36,191 --> 00:45:39,152 WeII, of course. Yes, yes. Good show. 815 00:45:39,862 --> 00:45:41,946 Henry, come in here! 816 00:45:42,072 --> 00:45:43,114 What...? 817 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:46,492 Ieave that to me, sir. I'II Iay that on. 818 00:45:47,536 --> 00:45:49,620 Goodbye, sir. 819 00:45:50,247 --> 00:45:51,497 BIast! 820 00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:53,666 Henry. Bit of a flap on. 821 00:45:53,792 --> 00:45:55,793 The deputy chairman's bringing down that bunch of darkies 822 00:45:55,919 --> 00:45:57,295 we're doing this contract for. 823 00:45:57,421 --> 00:45:58,880 Got to Iay on the usuaI things. 824 00:45:59,006 --> 00:46:01,215 You know, speeches in the canteen after Iunch, 825 00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:03,718 cIean toweIs, IittIe bit of soap in the toiIet. 826 00:46:03,844 --> 00:46:05,344 WeII, go on, mush! 827 00:46:05,471 --> 00:46:08,139 - By the way, he wants to see you. - Who? Me? 828 00:46:08,265 --> 00:46:10,516 Yes, you must report to him directIy he arrives. 829 00:46:10,642 --> 00:46:13,770 Right... 830 00:46:13,896 --> 00:46:16,564 I had you sent down here to do a job, Waters, 831 00:46:16,690 --> 00:46:17,815 and you're simpIy not doing it. 832 00:46:17,941 --> 00:46:20,234 But nobody wiII cooperate, sir, Ieast of aII Major Hitchcock. 833 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:21,694 Now Iisten to me, Waters. 834 00:46:21,820 --> 00:46:25,740 If you want cooperation, get hoId of that new man, Windrush. 835 00:46:25,866 --> 00:46:28,951 He's on the trucks. He's young, keen, inteIIigent... 836 00:46:29,077 --> 00:46:31,204 and he hasn't been corrupted. Yet. 837 00:46:31,330 --> 00:46:34,832 WeII, sir, I couId start timing the mechanicaI handIing if you'd Iike that. 838 00:46:34,958 --> 00:46:37,293 Good. WeII, after Iunch, get down to Despatch. 839 00:46:37,419 --> 00:46:39,378 I've toId CrawIey to have him working there. 840 00:46:39,505 --> 00:46:41,047 But what about the works committee? 841 00:46:41,173 --> 00:46:44,842 WeII, as you know, Waters, I'm addressing the workmen at Iunchtime 842 00:46:44,968 --> 00:46:47,929 and what I have to say is bound to provoke a works committee meeting. 843 00:46:48,055 --> 00:46:50,014 My guess is they'II be out of the way. 844 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:53,142 - Very weII, sir. Thank you very much, sir. - Get on with it. 845 00:46:59,608 --> 00:47:02,109 Very nice, Bertram. Very nice indeed. 846 00:47:02,236 --> 00:47:05,112 Young, keen, and inteIIigent. BIimey! 847 00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,990 You'd better hop it now. I don't want the other directors to see you here. 848 00:47:08,116 --> 00:47:09,575 Right. Look, in that speech of yours, 849 00:47:09,701 --> 00:47:12,203 give 'em pIenty of the oId "working your fingers to the bone" stuff. 850 00:47:12,329 --> 00:47:16,791 And don't forget aII that bunk about export or die. 851 00:47:16,917 --> 00:47:20,628 Export or die is no empty phrase. 852 00:47:20,754 --> 00:47:24,048 If we cannot seII the things we produce, we cannot buy the things we need. 853 00:47:24,174 --> 00:47:26,217 The resuIt wiII be starvation. 854 00:47:26,343 --> 00:47:30,221 I wonder if there's anyone here who can put his hand on his heart 855 00:47:30,347 --> 00:47:32,181 and truIy say, 856 00:47:32,307 --> 00:47:34,976 "I am doing my best." 857 00:47:35,102 --> 00:47:37,353 The greatness of this... 858 00:47:37,479 --> 00:47:40,273 Turn it down, CharIie boy. There's enough wind inside. 859 00:47:40,399 --> 00:47:42,817 ...honesty. Hard work and a sense of duty. 860 00:47:42,943 --> 00:47:45,695 An ideaI which many, I'm afraid, have rather Iost sight of. 861 00:47:46,488 --> 00:47:51,450 To ensure this country's heaIthy trading intercourse with foreign markets, 862 00:47:51,577 --> 00:47:53,411 we must seII at the right price. 863 00:47:53,537 --> 00:47:55,997 What's he on about, Stan? 864 00:47:56,123 --> 00:47:57,874 CommerciaI intercourse with foreigners. 865 00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,834 ...any notion of sIackness, 866 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:04,380 demands greater efficiency and everyone doing an honest day's work 867 00:48:04,506 --> 00:48:08,009 for a fair day's pay, for a change. 868 00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:12,179 It means that we must be ready to work with our neighbours, 869 00:48:12,306 --> 00:48:14,765 irrespective of whether they share our beIiefs 870 00:48:14,892 --> 00:48:17,602 or whether they beIong to another union, or to another race. 871 00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:21,856 For the success of the firm is the success of us aII. 872 00:48:24,526 --> 00:48:26,027 Thank you, Iadies and gentIemen. 873 00:48:26,153 --> 00:48:29,322 And now get back and buckIe down to yourjobs. 874 00:48:39,625 --> 00:48:41,876 A very exceIIent speech, Mr TracepurceI. 875 00:48:42,002 --> 00:48:44,629 It's so nice for me to see British democracy in action. 876 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:46,047 WeII, thank you, my dear feIIow. 877 00:48:46,173 --> 00:48:47,715 JoIIy good speech, I must say. 878 00:48:47,841 --> 00:48:50,051 Creep! 879 00:48:50,177 --> 00:48:53,304 WeII, Hitchcock, I think my speech shouId have quite an effect, eh? 880 00:48:53,430 --> 00:48:55,473 I shouId be most surprised if it didn't, sir. 881 00:49:18,288 --> 00:49:20,247 - Afternoon! - Afternoon! 882 00:49:20,374 --> 00:49:23,501 - Are you in charge here? - No, you want the despatch chargehand. 883 00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:24,835 He shouId be back soon. 884 00:49:24,962 --> 00:49:26,587 He's a shop steward and they've got a works committee meeting on. 885 00:49:26,713 --> 00:49:29,382 Ah... Handy IittIe machine you've got here. 886 00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:30,883 Yes, they're joIIy good, aren't they? 887 00:49:31,009 --> 00:49:33,177 I know you'II think me an awfuI fooI, but I'm a new boy around here. 888 00:49:33,303 --> 00:49:34,929 ReaIIy? I haven't been here Iong myseIf. 889 00:49:35,055 --> 00:49:37,264 Yes? What are you doing exactIy? 890 00:49:37,391 --> 00:49:40,726 WeII, I'm shifting these generators from the stores to here for Ioading up. 891 00:49:40,852 --> 00:49:42,395 You must find this machine saves you a Iot of sweat. 892 00:49:42,521 --> 00:49:43,896 It certainIy does. 893 00:49:44,022 --> 00:49:46,565 Pity it can't take more than one crate at a time. 894 00:49:46,692 --> 00:49:49,360 - But it can. - Oh! ReaIIy? 895 00:49:49,486 --> 00:49:50,736 Yes. 896 00:49:50,862 --> 00:49:52,655 - WouId you Iike me to show you? - I wouId indeed. 897 00:49:52,781 --> 00:49:54,365 Righty-oh. Now you stay here. 898 00:49:54,491 --> 00:49:56,534 Mind your Iegs, the back swings round a bit. 899 00:49:56,660 --> 00:49:58,744 That's the idea. 900 00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:19,390 - There we are! - My goodness, that was quick. 901 00:50:19,516 --> 00:50:22,309 Not reaIIy. I couId go much faster than that if I wanted to. 902 00:50:22,436 --> 00:50:25,021 - But not with two, sureIy? - More than two. Three. Four, if you Iike. 903 00:50:25,147 --> 00:50:28,274 - That's impossibIe. - AII right, I'II show you. 904 00:50:32,529 --> 00:50:34,655 I say... Are you sure I'm not keeping you from your work? 905 00:50:34,781 --> 00:50:35,906 No, no, no! 906 00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:37,742 WouIdn't Iike to get you into troubIe, or anything. 907 00:50:37,868 --> 00:50:41,662 - EspeciaIIy as you're new here. - Not at aII. I'm Iearning a Iot. 908 00:50:41,788 --> 00:50:44,999 Good! Right! Watch this! 909 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:53,132 Don't want to get you into troubIe. 910 00:50:53,258 --> 00:50:56,052 Brothers, it means troubIe. You aII heard what was said in his speech. 911 00:50:56,178 --> 00:50:57,261 - We did, Brother Chair. - We, did Fred. 912 00:50:57,387 --> 00:51:00,306 I have no hesitation in categoricaIIy deIineating it 913 00:51:00,432 --> 00:51:02,558 as being barefaced provocative of the workers. 914 00:51:02,684 --> 00:51:03,976 Hear, hear! 915 00:51:04,102 --> 00:51:07,021 On a point of order, Brother Chair, I wouId say we was Ieft with no option. 916 00:51:07,147 --> 00:51:08,230 ExactIy, brother. 917 00:51:08,356 --> 00:51:09,815 Up to now we've been bending over backwards 918 00:51:09,941 --> 00:51:13,444 trying to be heIpfuI to the management, but the cooperation's been aII one-sided. 919 00:51:13,570 --> 00:51:17,198 You're right. They f-f-f-f-fight us on every issue. 920 00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,742 Correct. Now, if I am to ascertain the sense of this meeting, 921 00:51:19,868 --> 00:51:21,327 from now on no concessions. 922 00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:23,829 Every man in this factory's got quite enough on his pIate as it is 923 00:51:23,955 --> 00:51:26,165 without having any more piIed on. 924 00:51:41,348 --> 00:51:43,933 There we are. Dead easy. 925 00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:49,230 SpIendid! AbsoIuteIy first rate. 926 00:51:49,356 --> 00:51:51,440 I shaII want them put into effect immediateIy. 927 00:51:51,566 --> 00:51:53,109 CertainIy, sir. 928 00:51:53,235 --> 00:51:55,778 ActuaIIy, nobody toId me the shop stewards 929 00:51:55,904 --> 00:51:59,406 - had agreed to the re-timings of the job. - They haven't. 930 00:51:59,533 --> 00:52:03,035 WeII, sir, with aII due respect, these figures are absoIuteIy worthIess. 931 00:52:03,161 --> 00:52:06,038 - Why? - Why? Waters knows as weII as I do 932 00:52:06,164 --> 00:52:08,624 that you must actuaIIy time a man on the job. 933 00:52:08,750 --> 00:52:10,793 A man was timed. 934 00:52:10,919 --> 00:52:14,255 A man was? How? Who? 935 00:52:14,381 --> 00:52:16,465 Quite an inexperienced operator. 936 00:52:16,591 --> 00:52:20,427 - I'm surprised to hear that. - New man, sir. Name's Windrush. 937 00:52:20,554 --> 00:52:23,889 Windrush? Windrush. 938 00:52:24,015 --> 00:52:26,016 Look, sir, I... I don't want to be a Jeremiah, 939 00:52:26,143 --> 00:52:29,395 but most of these figures are absoIute science fiction, sir. 940 00:52:29,521 --> 00:52:31,522 There's no fiction about those figures, Major. 941 00:52:31,648 --> 00:52:35,025 In point of fact, Windrush's rate of work is much higher. 942 00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:36,193 Yes, but he's a new man. 943 00:52:36,319 --> 00:52:38,612 He hasn't got used to the naturaI rhythm of the other workers. 944 00:52:38,738 --> 00:52:41,282 What you caII their naturaI rhythm of work is neither naturaI, rhythmic 945 00:52:41,408 --> 00:52:43,617 or anything very much to do with work. 946 00:52:43,743 --> 00:52:45,536 I agree. 947 00:52:45,662 --> 00:52:46,787 AbsoIuteIy, sir. 948 00:52:46,913 --> 00:52:48,998 Right, take 'em away and get on with it. 949 00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:55,379 This is just the sort of thing I had in mind when I decided to have you down here. 950 00:52:55,505 --> 00:52:58,382 - Keep it up! - Thank you, sir. I'II do my best. 951 00:52:58,508 --> 00:53:00,926 Before Iong we'II reaIIy have things moving in this pIace. 952 00:53:01,052 --> 00:53:02,094 Er... 953 00:53:56,858 --> 00:54:00,402 - SIice of cake? - What? Turn you stone deaf. 954 00:54:00,528 --> 00:54:04,740 Last week I was skint, then I had three cross doubIes, and aII of them came up. 955 00:54:04,866 --> 00:54:07,409 No... Turn it up! 956 00:54:07,535 --> 00:54:09,620 The boys wiII get the impression you're creeping. 957 00:54:09,746 --> 00:54:11,914 Sorry! 958 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,874 Here you are, squire, a nice cup of gnats'. 959 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,126 - Here... - No, go on, have this one on me. 960 00:54:16,253 --> 00:54:18,963 Otherwise we'II have oId Kitey chasing you for the rent at the weekend. 961 00:54:22,634 --> 00:54:25,261 There you are, Iook. ToId you. He's come to coIIect. 962 00:54:25,387 --> 00:54:29,056 FaII in, the Church Lads' Brigade. Come on. 963 00:54:29,808 --> 00:54:31,892 Thank you, brother. 964 00:54:36,898 --> 00:54:40,234 Right, brothers, are we aII gathered? 965 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:44,738 My purpose in convening you is to Iay before you certain facts. 966 00:54:44,864 --> 00:54:46,657 A few minutes ago, I was handed this paper 967 00:54:46,783 --> 00:54:49,076 by a representative of the management. 968 00:54:49,202 --> 00:54:52,997 It purports to contain certain timings made by the management, 969 00:54:53,123 --> 00:54:56,417 which directIy affect the rates for the job that you are doing. 970 00:54:56,543 --> 00:54:59,503 Now, this is the first time that this has been mooted to the works committee, 971 00:54:59,629 --> 00:55:02,965 And everything about it constitutes quite definiteIy, quite definiteIy... 972 00:55:03,091 --> 00:55:05,009 a definite breach of the existing agreements 973 00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:06,969 that exist between management and unions. 974 00:55:07,095 --> 00:55:09,555 - A diaboIicaI Iiberty. - Hear, hear! 975 00:55:09,681 --> 00:55:13,225 How couId they have retimed the job without any one of us knowing? 976 00:55:13,351 --> 00:55:14,393 Correct, brother. 977 00:55:14,519 --> 00:55:15,644 And that brings me to a point 978 00:55:15,770 --> 00:55:19,523 that has Ied us to take a particuIarIy grave view of the matter in hand. 979 00:55:19,649 --> 00:55:22,985 My information is that one of our members did, in fact, 980 00:55:23,111 --> 00:55:26,864 cooperate with the management. 981 00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:30,701 Brother Windrush. I am obIiged to put to you an open question. 982 00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:34,705 Did you or did you not, in fact, coIIaborate with the management? 983 00:55:34,831 --> 00:55:38,709 Me? CoIIaborate? What do you mean? 984 00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:40,711 Was you on Ioadings yesterday afternoon? 985 00:55:40,837 --> 00:55:42,004 Yes. 986 00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:45,090 Brother Jackson, you're in charge of Ioadings. Where was you? 987 00:55:45,216 --> 00:55:48,552 Between the hours referred to I was at a shop stewards' meeting. 988 00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:50,346 So, you were there aIone, brother. 989 00:55:50,472 --> 00:55:53,349 Yes, I was. Except for the other chap. 990 00:55:53,475 --> 00:55:55,059 The other chap! 991 00:55:55,185 --> 00:55:58,354 I think you ought to know, brothers, that this so-caIIed other chap 992 00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,606 was, in point of fact, the new time and motion man. 993 00:56:00,732 --> 00:56:02,399 - That's torn it. - That's handy. 994 00:56:02,525 --> 00:56:04,777 What, oId Soapy? 995 00:56:04,903 --> 00:56:08,697 Brother Windrush, perhaps you'd care to make a statement about that. 996 00:56:08,823 --> 00:56:11,408 I'm terribIy sorry, but he didn't teII me that. 997 00:56:11,534 --> 00:56:13,035 He just said that he was new here. 998 00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:16,705 You must be dead stupid. Of course he wasn't going to teII you. 999 00:56:16,831 --> 00:56:18,749 It was just that he was so interested in the truck. 1000 00:56:18,875 --> 00:56:21,502 WeII, aII he's interested in is more work for Iess money. 1001 00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:23,420 But I wasn't working particuIarIy hard, 1002 00:56:23,546 --> 00:56:25,297 and I got the job done in haIf the time. 1003 00:56:25,423 --> 00:56:27,674 WeII, at that rate, you'd onIy need haIf the drivers. 1004 00:56:27,801 --> 00:56:29,343 You want your head seen to. 1005 00:56:29,469 --> 00:56:33,305 It's aII right for you, matey, but we need the money. 1006 00:56:33,431 --> 00:56:36,183 So do I. In fact, I couId do with a bit more. 1007 00:56:36,309 --> 00:56:39,520 Huh. You're going the right bIeeding way about getting it. No mistake. 1008 00:56:39,646 --> 00:56:43,315 - You s-s-s-siIIy c-c-c-c-cIot. - Hear, hear! 1009 00:56:43,441 --> 00:56:44,817 You can say that again. 1010 00:56:44,943 --> 00:56:46,068 Order, brothers, order. 1011 00:56:46,194 --> 00:56:49,905 Windrush, your case wiII come up tonight before the branch for consideration. 1012 00:56:50,031 --> 00:56:54,159 WeII, I wouId Iike to make it cIear that I was not working hard. 1013 00:56:54,285 --> 00:56:55,411 Just quicker! 1014 00:56:55,537 --> 00:56:59,039 Looking at those scheduIes here, I'd say you was working Iike a ruddy bIack. 1015 00:56:59,165 --> 00:57:01,083 'Ere... that's it. 1016 00:57:01,209 --> 00:57:04,044 You aII heard what was said in the speech about working with coIoured Iabour. 1017 00:57:04,170 --> 00:57:05,546 The next thing you know, we'II have the bIacks here 1018 00:57:05,672 --> 00:57:08,173 doing ourjobs Iike they do on the buses in Birmingham. 1019 00:57:08,299 --> 00:57:10,300 - Dirty rotten trick! - TypicaI! 1020 00:57:10,427 --> 00:57:12,970 What are you going to do, Kitey? CaII the drivers out? 1021 00:57:13,096 --> 00:57:17,015 CaII the drivers out? I teII you, brothers, everybody's coming out. 1022 00:57:17,142 --> 00:57:18,851 Hear, hear! 1023 00:57:58,016 --> 00:57:59,600 Hey, you! You're in the Ioading bay, aren't you? 1024 00:57:59,726 --> 00:58:01,852 - Has that feIIow Windrush gone yet? - Try the car park. 1025 00:58:01,978 --> 00:58:04,021 He's got one of them bubbIe cars. 1026 00:58:13,990 --> 00:58:17,284 Is your name...? Good Iord, it is. 1027 00:58:17,410 --> 00:58:19,077 Of course I know you. 1028 00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:21,121 That's right, I served under you in the army. 1029 00:58:21,247 --> 00:58:23,207 - How are you, sir? - I might have known it. 1030 00:58:23,333 --> 00:58:26,418 You were damn boIshie in the army, and now you're trying the same thing here. 1031 00:58:26,544 --> 00:58:28,629 But sir, what do you mean? 1032 00:58:28,755 --> 00:58:29,796 What do I mean? 1033 00:58:29,923 --> 00:58:31,381 Don't come the innocent with me, Windrush. 1034 00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:33,800 You haven't been here more than five minutes, and the whoIe pIace is on strike. 1035 00:58:33,927 --> 00:58:36,178 - But sir... - You're a positive shower. 1036 00:58:36,304 --> 00:58:38,180 A stinker of the first order. 1037 00:58:38,306 --> 00:58:41,016 I'm frightfuIIy sorry, sir, but I'm going to have to Ieave. 1038 00:58:43,394 --> 00:58:45,521 Ow! 1039 00:59:08,169 --> 00:59:10,045 - Here, come on. We're on strike. - Who said so? 1040 00:59:10,171 --> 00:59:12,256 - OId Kitey has just passed a motion. - Since when, man? 1041 00:59:12,382 --> 00:59:14,466 HaIf an hour ago. Come on! 1042 00:59:14,592 --> 00:59:18,303 Here, come on, pack it in. There's no point us working for nothing, is there? 1043 00:59:24,018 --> 00:59:26,603 WeII, here's to the soIidarity of the workers. 1044 00:59:26,729 --> 00:59:29,606 Long may they remain united. 1045 00:59:29,732 --> 00:59:32,943 I think we can be pretty sure that the workers won't give in. 1046 00:59:33,069 --> 00:59:36,947 The onIy thing is that my feIIow directors may not approve of the stand I've taken. 1047 00:59:37,073 --> 00:59:38,282 And if they do not? 1048 00:59:38,408 --> 00:59:41,118 Then I might have to withdraw the scheduIes, 1049 00:59:41,244 --> 00:59:42,911 and the strike wouId coIIapse. 1050 00:59:43,037 --> 00:59:44,788 But it must not coIIapse. 1051 00:59:44,914 --> 00:59:47,499 I have to have time to get permission to transfer the contract 1052 00:59:47,625 --> 00:59:48,959 to my friend Mr Cox here. 1053 00:59:49,085 --> 00:59:50,794 WeII, how Iong wouId you Iike, Mr Mohammed? 1054 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:52,713 Four or five days. A Ieast. 1055 00:59:52,839 --> 00:59:56,049 I daresay I couId manage that. 1056 00:59:56,175 --> 00:59:58,260 Do you know, Bertie, I... 1057 00:59:58,386 --> 01:00:01,930 I think perhaps we ought to caII the newspapers in on this. 1058 01:00:02,056 --> 01:00:06,226 I can't heIp feeIing there's a nice, warm, human story here somewhere. 1059 01:00:18,740 --> 01:00:21,241 You haven't finished. Come on, StanIey, 1060 01:00:21,367 --> 01:00:24,328 you can't stop eating just because you're not working, you know? 1061 01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:28,498 - My dear boy! - I say, Mr Kite's quite Iate, isn't he? 1062 01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:32,252 Soppy branch meetings. Jaw, jaw, jaw. 1063 01:00:32,378 --> 01:00:34,087 I don't know what they find to taIk about. 1064 01:00:34,213 --> 01:00:36,715 They're taIking about me, I think! Considering my case. 1065 01:00:36,841 --> 01:00:38,925 Daft Iot! 1066 01:00:39,052 --> 01:00:40,510 There he is now. 1067 01:00:40,637 --> 01:00:42,554 Come on, Dad! 1068 01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:44,264 Tea's waiting. 1069 01:00:44,390 --> 01:00:47,768 StanIey and Cynthia's practicaIIy finished theirs. 1070 01:00:56,027 --> 01:00:58,111 Good evening, Mother. 1071 01:01:03,951 --> 01:01:06,578 Good evening, Mr Kite. 1072 01:01:06,704 --> 01:01:09,373 Communication addressed to you from the branch committee. 1073 01:01:09,499 --> 01:01:11,583 - Good evening, Cynthia. - Dad... 1074 01:01:24,055 --> 01:01:27,224 "Disassociation"? What's that? 1075 01:01:27,350 --> 01:01:29,643 You have been sent to Coventry. 1076 01:01:29,769 --> 01:01:32,896 You mean... nobody wiII taIk to me for a month? 1077 01:01:33,022 --> 01:01:35,107 That is correct, yes. 1078 01:01:38,236 --> 01:01:40,779 Does that mean that you're not even aIIowed to taIk to me, Mr Kite? 1079 01:01:40,905 --> 01:01:44,157 OnIy to inform you of the nature of the branch committee's decision, 1080 01:01:44,283 --> 01:01:46,451 democraticaIIy arrived at. 1081 01:01:46,577 --> 01:01:49,371 Demo... but I wasn't there, Mr Kite! 1082 01:01:49,497 --> 01:01:53,041 UtterIy unnecessary. We was in fuII possession of aII the facts. 1083 01:01:53,167 --> 01:01:55,085 So, you've aII come out again, eh? 1084 01:01:55,211 --> 01:01:57,838 JoIIy good job the wives don't go out on strike. 1085 01:01:57,964 --> 01:02:00,090 - You washed your hands? - They're cIean enough, Mother. 1086 01:02:00,216 --> 01:02:03,301 Yes, weII, I hope they are. 1087 01:02:03,428 --> 01:02:05,178 Here, who can that be? 1088 01:02:09,809 --> 01:02:12,185 - Yes? - Good evening. Is this Mr Kite's house? 1089 01:02:12,311 --> 01:02:15,230 - Yes. - We're from the press. 1090 01:02:15,356 --> 01:02:20,736 From the press. WouId you wait one moment, pIease? 1091 01:02:22,905 --> 01:02:24,197 Dad! 1092 01:02:24,323 --> 01:02:25,824 Dad!- 1093 01:02:25,950 --> 01:02:27,409 - It's the newspapers. - What? 1094 01:02:27,535 --> 01:02:32,289 - There's a crowd of reporters outside. - That'II be about the strike. 1095 01:02:32,415 --> 01:02:34,082 No doubt they want a statement from me. 1096 01:02:34,208 --> 01:02:37,252 I wouIdn't go getting myseIf in the newspapers if I were you. 1097 01:02:37,378 --> 01:02:38,962 Don't be siIIy, Mother. When you're in the pubIic eye, 1098 01:02:39,088 --> 01:02:40,922 you must expect that sort of thing. 1099 01:02:41,048 --> 01:02:42,674 Let them in. 1100 01:02:43,259 --> 01:02:48,472 I must ask aII those present to retire whiIe I hoId a press conference. 1101 01:02:53,227 --> 01:02:57,355 Press conference? Huh? Who do you think you are? Diana Dors? 1102 01:02:58,566 --> 01:03:00,066 - WiII you come in, pIease? - Good evening. 1103 01:03:00,193 --> 01:03:01,777 - Good evening. - Good evening, friends. 1104 01:03:01,903 --> 01:03:04,279 - Good evening. - PIease be seated. 1105 01:03:04,405 --> 01:03:06,323 - Mr Kite? - That is correct, friend, yes. 1106 01:03:06,449 --> 01:03:08,325 I think I know what you've aII come about, 1107 01:03:08,451 --> 01:03:10,327 so if you'd care to take the seats avaiIabIe, 1108 01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:13,330 I'm quite prepared to get down to the facts of the case. 1109 01:03:13,456 --> 01:03:16,249 Now, the situation as I see it is this: 1110 01:03:16,375 --> 01:03:18,084 - It has aIways been the union's... - Mr Kite... 1111 01:03:18,211 --> 01:03:19,920 CouId we interrupt you just for a moment? 1112 01:03:20,046 --> 01:03:22,005 CertainIy, friend. CertainIy. 1113 01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:24,466 We understand you have a Mr Windrush Iodging with you. 1114 01:03:24,592 --> 01:03:26,343 That is so, yes. 1115 01:03:26,469 --> 01:03:29,179 CouId we see him, do you think, Mr Kite? 1116 01:03:29,305 --> 01:03:31,932 See him? 1117 01:03:32,058 --> 01:03:33,433 WeII, I do not know. 1118 01:03:33,559 --> 01:03:34,976 Is he in? 1119 01:03:35,102 --> 01:03:37,938 Yes, he's in... 1120 01:03:38,064 --> 01:03:40,232 but it may not be convenient. 1121 01:03:40,358 --> 01:03:41,483 WouId you mind asking him? 1122 01:03:48,407 --> 01:03:49,866 Mother! 1123 01:03:51,661 --> 01:03:52,953 Mr Kite, this strike at MissiIes. 1124 01:03:53,079 --> 01:03:55,372 I beIieve you're chief shop steward, aren't you? 1125 01:03:55,498 --> 01:03:57,207 I am... for my sins. 1126 01:03:57,333 --> 01:03:59,543 Then it was you who brought the men out? 1127 01:03:59,669 --> 01:04:01,920 TechnicaIIy that might appear so. 1128 01:04:02,046 --> 01:04:06,299 However, a motion was put and passed democraticaIIy, and if I might... 1129 01:04:06,425 --> 01:04:09,594 How many strikes have you caIIed in the Iast year, Mr Kite? 1130 01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:14,808 Now, now. I do not regard that question as being reveIant to the immediate issues. 1131 01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:17,811 Are you a member of any poIiticaI party, Mr Kite? 1132 01:04:17,937 --> 01:04:19,813 Friend, my poIitics are a matter 1133 01:04:19,939 --> 01:04:22,732 between my conscience and the baIIot box. 1134 01:04:22,859 --> 01:04:25,235 WeII, are you a Conservative, then? 1135 01:04:25,361 --> 01:04:28,363 Look here, friend, the interests of the working cIasses 1136 01:04:28,489 --> 01:04:32,617 are historicaIIy and diametricaIIy opposed to those vested interests 1137 01:04:32,743 --> 01:04:35,245 which Iay behind the party you have mentioned. 1138 01:04:35,371 --> 01:04:37,664 What is more, and again... 1139 01:04:37,790 --> 01:04:39,332 Do you mind if we ask you some questions, Mr Windrush? 1140 01:04:39,458 --> 01:04:41,877 No, not at aII. Of course. 1141 01:04:42,003 --> 01:04:45,964 This strike at MissiIes, Mr Windrush. We're toId you started it. 1142 01:04:46,090 --> 01:04:49,092 - Yes, I'm afraid I did. - By working too hard. 1143 01:04:49,218 --> 01:04:51,344 WeII, I wouIdn't say that. 1144 01:04:51,470 --> 01:04:53,430 But you did work a Iot harder than the others? 1145 01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:57,976 WeII... not harder, reaIIy. Perhaps a bit quicker. 1146 01:04:58,102 --> 01:05:00,270 What are your mates going to say about this? 1147 01:05:00,396 --> 01:05:02,564 I'm not quite sure, reaIIy. 1148 01:05:02,690 --> 01:05:04,482 You see, they're not aIIowed to speak to me. 1149 01:05:04,609 --> 01:05:07,068 - Why not? - WeII, I've been sent to Coventry. 1150 01:05:07,194 --> 01:05:09,404 Sent to Coventry for working hard? 1151 01:05:09,530 --> 01:05:13,199 I suppose so. I'm not quite sure, reaIIy. 1152 01:05:13,326 --> 01:05:15,493 These mates of yours. How do you feeI about them? 1153 01:05:15,620 --> 01:05:17,162 They're first-cIass chaps. 1154 01:05:17,288 --> 01:05:18,455 No hard feeIings? 1155 01:05:18,581 --> 01:05:20,123 Good Lord, no. 1156 01:05:20,249 --> 01:05:22,292 But don't you want to get back to work? 1157 01:05:22,418 --> 01:05:24,127 Yes, I do, I... 1158 01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:27,130 - I need the money. - But the union's stopping you? 1159 01:05:27,256 --> 01:05:29,299 Yes, weII... 1160 01:05:29,425 --> 01:05:31,927 It's not reaIIy as simpIe as aII that, reaIIy. 1161 01:05:32,053 --> 01:05:34,846 You see, there's the negotiated agreement, 1162 01:05:34,972 --> 01:05:37,724 and then there's aIso the question of the bIack men. 1163 01:05:37,850 --> 01:05:40,518 BIack men? How do they come into it? 1164 01:05:40,645 --> 01:05:44,230 WeII, I must admit I don't reaIIy understand that myseIf. 1165 01:05:44,357 --> 01:05:46,441 But I'm sure Mr Kite couId expIain it for you. 1166 01:05:47,443 --> 01:05:49,069 WouId it be fair to say, Mr Windrush, 1167 01:05:49,195 --> 01:05:52,238 that your whoIe object is to heIp get this big export order compIeted 1168 01:05:52,365 --> 01:05:55,116 - as quickIy as possibIe? - AbsoIuteIy. 1169 01:05:55,242 --> 01:05:59,371 I think we aII reaIise that if we can't export, we shaII die of starvation. 1170 01:05:59,497 --> 01:06:01,915 And I mean, we must produce the goods 1171 01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:04,960 - at the right price, mustn't we? - Do forgive me, Mr Windrush, 1172 01:06:05,086 --> 01:06:09,172 but I'm most anxious to get the human angIe on this sort of probIem. 1173 01:06:09,298 --> 01:06:11,758 Are you the onIy person Iiving here with Mr and Mrs Kite? 1174 01:06:11,884 --> 01:06:15,595 Yes, that's right. I mean, apart from their daughter Cynthia. 1175 01:06:17,181 --> 01:06:19,975 - And what does she do? - She's at the factory, too. 1176 01:06:20,101 --> 01:06:22,394 ReaIIy? Mm... 1177 01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,647 Then you must be seeing quite a Iot of each other? 1178 01:06:26,524 --> 01:06:29,693 Yes, weII... It's reaIIy getting awfuIIy Iate, now and I... 1179 01:06:29,819 --> 01:06:31,861 Mr Kite hasn't had his supper yet. 1180 01:06:31,988 --> 01:06:33,863 - Thank you very much. - Before we go, Mr Windrush, 1181 01:06:33,990 --> 01:06:36,241 couId we have a picture of you with Mrs Kite and her daughter? 1182 01:06:36,367 --> 01:06:38,952 Just over here, Mr Windrush. Next to Mrs Kite! 1183 01:06:39,078 --> 01:06:40,954 You don't want to photograph me! 1184 01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,081 What do you want to photograph me for? 1185 01:06:43,207 --> 01:06:45,709 Give us a chance to get my apron off, then. 1186 01:06:45,835 --> 01:06:47,293 Let's make it a IittIe more friendIy. 1187 01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:48,753 Put your arms round them, Mr Windrush. 1188 01:06:48,879 --> 01:06:51,172 That's it. 1189 01:06:51,298 --> 01:06:53,758 Now, Miss Kite, if you'II just Iook up at Mr Windrush and... 1190 01:06:53,884 --> 01:06:54,926 smiIe. 1191 01:06:56,178 --> 01:06:57,220 Thank you. 1192 01:06:58,556 --> 01:07:00,724 "- SaIute StanIey Windrush. - Why? 1193 01:07:00,850 --> 01:07:04,728 "Because this man did in one hour what his workmates did in severaI. 1194 01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:06,479 "What did his union do? 1195 01:07:06,605 --> 01:07:08,898 "They sent him to Coventry. 1196 01:07:09,025 --> 01:07:10,608 "Was he working too hard? 1197 01:07:10,735 --> 01:07:14,446 "No! He was working more efficientry... efficientIy. 1198 01:07:14,572 --> 01:07:16,906 "What a reward! Does he forgive them? 1199 01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:18,366 "Yes, he does. 1200 01:07:18,492 --> 01:07:20,702 "'They are first cIass chaps,' he says. 1201 01:07:20,828 --> 01:07:23,455 "Here is an exampIe to us aII. 1202 01:07:23,581 --> 01:07:26,041 "The management must back this man." 1203 01:07:26,167 --> 01:07:28,626 There. Lord Beaverbrook wrote that. 1204 01:07:28,753 --> 01:07:30,754 I shouId never have aIIowed him to be interviewed. 1205 01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,715 They was bound to use him as a tooI to whitewash the bosses. 1206 01:07:33,841 --> 01:07:35,759 This is a stunt of the management's. 1207 01:07:35,885 --> 01:07:37,385 Look at this, Mum. 1208 01:07:37,511 --> 01:07:40,013 "The Sketch" says... if Stan was working in Russia 1209 01:07:40,139 --> 01:07:42,057 he'd be made a hero of the Soviet Union. 1210 01:07:42,183 --> 01:07:45,435 Ooh, you've come out IoveIy in this one, Cyn. 1211 01:07:45,561 --> 01:07:48,855 I must say, they do Iook nice together, Dad. 1212 01:07:48,981 --> 01:07:50,523 Look at Stan in this one. 1213 01:07:50,649 --> 01:07:53,109 He Iooks just Iike Frankie Sinatra. Innit marveIIous! 1214 01:07:53,235 --> 01:07:55,236 Beats me how you can sit there reading that muck! 1215 01:07:55,362 --> 01:07:57,155 I don't know about muck. 1216 01:07:57,281 --> 01:07:59,657 You have sent him into Coventry, haven't you? 1217 01:07:59,784 --> 01:08:02,660 I notice they don't say, "SaIute Fred Kite." 1218 01:08:02,787 --> 01:08:04,746 Your press conference didn't do you much good, did it? 1219 01:08:04,872 --> 01:08:06,623 Don't be rude to your father now. 1220 01:08:06,749 --> 01:08:10,043 - WeII, I'd better be off. - Thought you said you wasn't working? 1221 01:08:10,169 --> 01:08:12,087 I can't stay here arguing. I've got a Iot to do. 1222 01:08:12,213 --> 01:08:14,547 Report to the executives, check up on the pickets. 1223 01:08:14,673 --> 01:08:17,300 From what I can see, the onIy time you everjoIIy weII do any work's 1224 01:08:17,426 --> 01:08:19,677 when you're on strike. 1225 01:08:28,104 --> 01:08:29,771 - There he is! - Ah... 1226 01:08:29,897 --> 01:08:31,981 Mind your backs, pIease. 1227 01:08:33,484 --> 01:08:35,485 Any further deveIopments, Mr Kite? Care to make a statement? 1228 01:08:35,611 --> 01:08:37,028 Any news? 1229 01:08:37,988 --> 01:08:40,365 I have onIy one thing to say to you Iot. 1230 01:08:40,491 --> 01:08:43,159 This strike is going to be one hundred per cent soIid. 1231 01:08:43,285 --> 01:08:46,162 Apart from that, I have no comment. 1232 01:08:46,288 --> 01:08:49,707 Excuse me. Stand back, pIease. Stand back. 1233 01:09:00,344 --> 01:09:03,263 Keep a Iook-out for Master StanIey's car, Truscott. 1234 01:09:03,389 --> 01:09:06,224 I imagine the house must be somewhere near here. 1235 01:09:06,350 --> 01:09:07,642 Very good, Your Ladyship. 1236 01:09:17,695 --> 01:09:20,238 WouId you mind coming out this side, madam? 1237 01:09:20,364 --> 01:09:22,824 Yes, I think I'd better. 1238 01:09:22,950 --> 01:09:24,534 Thank you. 1239 01:09:24,660 --> 01:09:26,703 Whatever is going on here? 1240 01:09:48,392 --> 01:09:51,144 Good morning. Is my nephew at home? 1241 01:09:51,270 --> 01:09:53,646 - Nephew? - Mr Windrush. 1242 01:09:53,772 --> 01:09:55,398 Who? Stan? 1243 01:09:55,524 --> 01:09:57,859 Yes, er... StanIey. 1244 01:09:57,985 --> 01:10:01,321 Mum, it's Stan's auntie. 1245 01:10:02,323 --> 01:10:03,364 Auntie? 1246 01:10:03,490 --> 01:10:05,408 - WiII you come in, then, pIease? - Thank you. 1247 01:10:24,470 --> 01:10:27,388 I've toId StanIey you're here. 1248 01:10:27,514 --> 01:10:29,599 - He's just dressing. - Thank you. 1249 01:10:29,725 --> 01:10:33,019 Cynthia, you go and get dressed, too, for goodness' sake. 1250 01:10:33,145 --> 01:10:35,813 Ooh.. AII right, Mum. 1251 01:10:35,940 --> 01:10:39,150 - See you Iater. - Yes, er... yes. 1252 01:10:39,276 --> 01:10:40,860 I'm ever so sorry. 1253 01:10:40,986 --> 01:10:44,447 It's aII my fauIt. I toId Stan he couId have a Iie-in this morning. 1254 01:10:44,573 --> 01:10:47,700 - Seeing he wasn't working. - I see. 1255 01:10:47,826 --> 01:10:50,787 Do pIease sit down, won't you? I'II make you a cup of tea. 1256 01:10:50,913 --> 01:10:52,830 No, I won't have any tea, thank you. 1257 01:10:52,957 --> 01:10:56,793 It's not a bit of troubIe. The kettIe's on for StanIey anyway. 1258 01:10:56,919 --> 01:11:00,255 You're very kind, but no, thank you. 1259 01:11:06,136 --> 01:11:10,390 I must say, we do Iove having your nephew here. 1260 01:11:10,516 --> 01:11:12,016 Yes, he's a nice boy. 1261 01:11:12,142 --> 01:11:15,770 Yes. He's so considerate and so poIite. 1262 01:11:15,896 --> 01:11:17,730 I'm very gIad to hear that. 1263 01:11:17,856 --> 01:11:20,984 Nowadays, manners do seem to have changed, don't they? 1264 01:11:21,110 --> 01:11:22,986 You're teIIing me. It's not onIy manners changed. 1265 01:11:23,112 --> 01:11:24,946 Sometimes I think the whoIe worId's changed. 1266 01:11:25,072 --> 01:11:27,448 - It has indeed. - That's what I say. 1267 01:11:27,574 --> 01:11:29,158 I was saying to Mrs Kite the other day, 1268 01:11:29,285 --> 01:11:31,995 I say, it's aII very weII your saying, 'Change this, change that'... 1269 01:11:32,121 --> 01:11:34,831 Wotcha gonna be Ieft with? 1270 01:11:34,957 --> 01:11:38,710 - Perhaps I wiII sit down. - Yes, of course. That's the ticket. 1271 01:11:38,836 --> 01:11:39,961 That's right. 1272 01:11:40,087 --> 01:11:42,213 - You make yourseIf comfortabIe. - Thank you. 1273 01:11:42,339 --> 01:11:44,549 And I'm going to make you a nice cup of tea. 1274 01:11:44,675 --> 01:11:46,884 Thank you very much. 1275 01:11:47,011 --> 01:11:50,680 Young StanIey's side of the famiIy haven't got two ha'pennies to rub together. 1276 01:11:50,806 --> 01:11:53,558 StiII, I suppose she Iooks after them aII right? 1277 01:11:53,684 --> 01:11:56,811 She Iooks after her money. That's about aII she Iooks after. 1278 01:11:58,397 --> 01:12:02,567 Mind you, I dare say young StanIey wiII come in for a bit when she goes upstairs. 1279 01:12:02,693 --> 01:12:06,029 I know StanIey now caIIs himseIf a worker, 1280 01:12:06,155 --> 01:12:09,073 but I'm most anxious that he shouIdn't be disIoyaI. 1281 01:12:09,199 --> 01:12:11,868 DefiniteIy. How do you Iike your tea? 1282 01:12:11,994 --> 01:12:14,662 Strong. And no sugar, pIease. 1283 01:12:14,788 --> 01:12:18,624 After aII, famiIy ties count for something. 1284 01:12:18,751 --> 01:12:21,919 No one's entitIed to forget the principIes of his upbringing. 1285 01:12:22,046 --> 01:12:23,755 Quite. 1286 01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:29,719 You see... it's quite unthinkabIe that a gentIeman shouId go on strike. 1287 01:12:29,845 --> 01:12:32,388 I mean, officers don't mutiny, do they? 1288 01:12:32,514 --> 01:12:35,391 No, they don't. I see what you mean. 1289 01:12:35,517 --> 01:12:39,020 Thank you. WeII, that's what I've come to teII StanIey. 1290 01:12:39,146 --> 01:12:40,772 No, go on! 1291 01:12:50,741 --> 01:12:52,617 Don't know what that Iot suddenIy turned up for. 1292 01:12:52,743 --> 01:12:54,660 They won't see nothing. This strike's soIid. 1293 01:12:54,787 --> 01:12:56,829 Why don't you teII them to... ph-ph-... 1294 01:12:56,955 --> 01:12:58,790 photograph something worthwhiIe? 1295 01:13:04,421 --> 01:13:06,714 HeIIo, what's he come here for? 1296 01:13:14,390 --> 01:13:16,724 You shouIdn't be up here, StanIey, you're in Coventry. 1297 01:13:16,850 --> 01:13:18,559 Anyway, you don't want this Iot picking on you again, do you? 1298 01:13:18,685 --> 01:13:20,103 WeII, of course I don't. 1299 01:13:20,229 --> 01:13:22,438 But the fact is, Mr Kite, 1300 01:13:22,564 --> 01:13:24,440 I've decided to go back to work. 1301 01:13:25,901 --> 01:13:27,110 You've what? 1302 01:13:27,236 --> 01:13:29,987 WeII, it may be difficuIt for you to understand this, but... 1303 01:13:30,114 --> 01:13:32,031 weII, it's a simpIe matter of IoyaIty, reaIIy. 1304 01:13:32,157 --> 01:13:34,283 I shouId think it is a simpIe matter of IoyaIty! 1305 01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:36,786 You see, I can't Iet my famiIy down. 1306 01:13:36,912 --> 01:13:38,704 I mean, UncIe expects it of me. 1307 01:13:38,831 --> 01:13:40,832 UncIe? What's your uncIe got to do with it? 1308 01:13:41,542 --> 01:13:43,960 WeII, actuaIIy he's Mr TracepurceI. 1309 01:13:44,086 --> 01:13:45,545 Though he did ask me not to teII you. 1310 01:13:47,714 --> 01:13:50,508 I shouId bIoody weII think he did. 1311 01:13:50,634 --> 01:13:52,135 WeII, of course I might have known. 1312 01:13:52,261 --> 01:13:55,721 Huh! BIind! I've been bIind. I might have known. 1313 01:13:55,848 --> 01:13:57,849 An agent provocator, that's what you are. 1314 01:13:57,975 --> 01:14:00,685 - No, no, Mr Kite. - You whited sepuIchre, you! 1315 01:14:00,811 --> 01:14:03,020 TaIked your way into the union, wormed your way into my house, 1316 01:14:03,147 --> 01:14:06,482 and aII the time you was a... you was a fifth coIumn in our midst. 1317 01:14:06,608 --> 01:14:09,610 I didn't mean to upset you Iike this, Mr Kite. 1318 01:14:09,736 --> 01:14:11,028 Do you mind if I drive on into the factory? 1319 01:14:11,155 --> 01:14:13,489 - No, you don't! - Come on. 1320 01:14:18,912 --> 01:14:20,705 Fascists! 1321 01:14:21,748 --> 01:14:24,083 AII right, go on in, if you're going. 1322 01:14:27,963 --> 01:14:30,631 You fiIthy traitor, Windrush. 1323 01:14:30,757 --> 01:14:32,842 Judas! 1324 01:14:35,721 --> 01:14:38,681 ...and everything eIse. 1325 01:14:38,807 --> 01:14:40,808 BIackIeg. 1326 01:14:40,934 --> 01:14:43,644 Nice thing... 1327 01:14:44,104 --> 01:14:45,771 And me chief shop steward. 1328 01:14:47,232 --> 01:14:49,942 Made me a Iaughing stock. 1329 01:14:50,068 --> 01:14:51,861 It's not right. 1330 01:14:51,987 --> 01:14:54,447 I'm easy enough, but... 1331 01:14:54,573 --> 01:14:57,074 but there are Iimits. 1332 01:14:57,201 --> 01:14:59,535 Ooh... home at Iast! 1333 01:14:59,661 --> 01:15:01,621 My feet are kiIIing me. 1334 01:15:01,747 --> 01:15:04,165 Don't know why they can't run more buses. 1335 01:15:04,291 --> 01:15:06,667 What a journey. 1336 01:15:06,793 --> 01:15:08,461 Edie sends her Iove to you. 1337 01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:11,130 - Yes, dear, that's right. - Put them down there for the moment. 1338 01:15:11,256 --> 01:15:13,591 Have you got that present for StanIey there, Mum? 1339 01:15:13,717 --> 01:15:15,801 Here it is, dear. 1340 01:15:19,348 --> 01:15:21,182 Stan not had his supper yet? 1341 01:15:21,308 --> 01:15:23,267 - No. - Why? Isn't he in? 1342 01:15:23,393 --> 01:15:25,603 No. I put the kettIe on for you, Mother. 1343 01:15:25,729 --> 01:15:28,856 - Mum, shaII I put it on his pIate? - Yes, dear, aII right. 1344 01:15:34,905 --> 01:15:36,739 When wiII StanIey be back? 1345 01:15:38,075 --> 01:15:41,077 - He is back. - What do you mean, "He is back"? 1346 01:15:42,704 --> 01:15:44,413 He's back where he beIongs. 1347 01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:48,251 'Ere, just a moment. 1348 01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:50,711 What exactIy do you mean by that? 1349 01:15:52,381 --> 01:15:55,925 - He's packed up and gone. - Gone where? 1350 01:15:56,051 --> 01:15:58,970 I had no choice, Mother. You see, he's a bIackIeg. 1351 01:15:59,096 --> 01:16:03,891 You threw him out? 1352 01:16:08,897 --> 01:16:10,856 Don't cry Iike that, darIing. 1353 01:16:10,983 --> 01:16:14,443 Don't upset yourseIf, Cynthia. 1354 01:16:14,570 --> 01:16:17,071 You see what you've done, don't you? 1355 01:16:20,993 --> 01:16:24,245 What am I going to do with these suspenders? 1356 01:16:26,206 --> 01:16:27,832 I couId teII you. 1357 01:16:27,958 --> 01:16:30,042 It's so unfair. 1358 01:16:30,168 --> 01:16:33,504 He's got no thought for others. 1359 01:16:33,630 --> 01:16:36,799 Now he's ruined my whoIe Iife. 1360 01:16:39,886 --> 01:16:42,555 I hope you're satisfied, Fred Kite. 1361 01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:45,516 Look, Mother. It was democraticaIIy arrived at. 1362 01:16:45,642 --> 01:16:47,184 I mean, I am chairman of the works committee... 1363 01:16:47,311 --> 01:16:50,271 Yes, you're chairman of the works committee, aII right. 1364 01:16:50,397 --> 01:16:51,689 Don't we aII know it. 1365 01:16:51,815 --> 01:16:54,066 Sick to death of you and your works committee. 1366 01:16:54,192 --> 01:16:58,154 Union this, union that, and your bIasted Soviet Union. 1367 01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:01,490 - There is a strike on, Mother. - You're teIIing me there's a strike on. 1368 01:17:01,617 --> 01:17:02,867 I'II teII you something eIse. 1369 01:17:02,993 --> 01:17:06,787 The strike's spread. To this house, from now on. 1370 01:17:09,374 --> 01:17:12,084 Cynthia, get our bags packed. 1371 01:17:12,210 --> 01:17:14,837 We're going back to Auntie Edie's. 1372 01:17:14,963 --> 01:17:16,756 Two can pIay at this game, you know. 1373 01:17:16,882 --> 01:17:18,716 You wanted a strike, you've got one. 1374 01:17:18,842 --> 01:17:21,636 Perhaps when you feeI Iike going back to work, I wiII. 1375 01:17:21,762 --> 01:17:23,929 And here's something eIse I'm going to teII you. 1376 01:17:24,056 --> 01:17:27,850 Here's another strike that's 100% soIid. 1377 01:18:35,585 --> 01:18:37,795 'This is the BBC Home Service. 1378 01:18:37,921 --> 01:18:41,298 'Here is the 9am news for today, Thursday, March 10th.' 1379 01:18:41,425 --> 01:18:44,051 The Transberberite Embassy has announced 1380 01:18:44,177 --> 01:18:45,636 that its government has canceIIed 1381 01:18:45,762 --> 01:18:49,348 its one and three quarter miIIion pound contract with MissiIes Ltd. 1382 01:18:49,474 --> 01:18:53,018 in view of the strike there, now in its fifth day. 1383 01:18:53,145 --> 01:18:55,730 Their spokesman Mr Mohammed reveaIed 1384 01:18:55,856 --> 01:18:59,108 that the contract had been re-aIIocated to another British firm, 1385 01:18:59,234 --> 01:19:02,987 'Union Jack Foundries Ltd. of CIapton. 1386 01:19:03,113 --> 01:19:06,157 'The Managing Director of Union Jack, Mr Sidney De Vere Cox, 1387 01:19:06,283 --> 01:19:07,825 'said Iast night, 1388 01:19:07,951 --> 01:19:10,953 "'MissiIes have my sympathy in their present troubIes, 1389 01:19:11,079 --> 01:19:12,663 "'but I naturaIIy rejoice 1390 01:19:12,789 --> 01:19:17,042 "'that this vaIuabIe export order wiII not been Iost to the OId Country."' 1391 01:19:24,468 --> 01:19:26,051 How far is it, Mr Cox? 1392 01:19:26,178 --> 01:19:28,345 We'II be there in 20 minutes. 1393 01:19:29,347 --> 01:19:31,182 What a damn fine morning, Mr Cox. 1394 01:19:31,308 --> 01:19:33,934 CouIdn't be better, oId man. It's in the bag. 1395 01:19:34,060 --> 01:19:35,436 To quote your EngIish proverb, 1396 01:19:35,562 --> 01:19:38,856 we seem to have the bird by the bush in the hand. 1397 01:19:50,452 --> 01:19:52,036 WeII, here we are. 1398 01:20:08,512 --> 01:20:11,597 - 'Ere! Where do you think you're going? - On strike, guv! 1399 01:20:11,723 --> 01:20:13,599 On strike? What are you on strike for? 1400 01:20:13,725 --> 01:20:15,267 In sympathy with MissiIes. 1401 01:20:15,393 --> 01:20:18,395 Sympathy? What about a bit of sympathy for me? 1402 01:20:18,522 --> 01:20:20,940 - Excuse me, Mr Cox... - Shut up! 1403 01:20:39,334 --> 01:20:43,504 'IndustriaI crisis provides a chaIIenge to a free society. 1404 01:20:43,630 --> 01:20:46,423 'But at such a time the nation remains caIm. 1405 01:20:46,550 --> 01:20:50,052 'CaIm because it knows it can be certain of Ieadership. 1406 01:20:50,178 --> 01:20:54,181 'Leadership that is boId, toIerant, yet decisive.' 1407 01:20:54,307 --> 01:20:57,101 I see great principIes at stake here. 1408 01:20:57,227 --> 01:20:59,979 As Minister of Labour, you can be sure that I shaII act. 1409 01:21:00,105 --> 01:21:02,606 You can aIso be sure that I shaII not interfere, 1410 01:21:02,732 --> 01:21:06,902 that is with those great principIes which I deem to be at stake. 1411 01:21:07,028 --> 01:21:10,322 The Trade Union Congress has deIiberated, 1412 01:21:10,448 --> 01:21:12,950 and on behaIf of my coIIeagues 1413 01:21:13,076 --> 01:21:19,498 I can say that we are not prepared either to endorse the strike officiaIIy 1414 01:21:19,624 --> 01:21:21,584 nor to condemn it. 1415 01:21:21,710 --> 01:21:26,505 AII unions being autonomous are free to make their own decisions. 1416 01:21:26,631 --> 01:21:31,260 For the time being, the GeneraI CounciI caIIs upon empIoyers 1417 01:21:31,386 --> 01:21:35,306 to exercise restraint and to avoid provocation. 1418 01:21:35,432 --> 01:21:37,391 'But behind the officiaI pronouncements, 1419 01:21:37,517 --> 01:21:40,102 'other vitaI forces are at work. 1420 01:21:40,228 --> 01:21:42,813 'The traditionaI respect of the British for the individuaI, 1421 01:21:42,939 --> 01:21:48,193 'aIIied to a rare genius for compromise and the unorthodox approach.' 1422 01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:49,945 Why don't we just buy him off? 1423 01:21:50,071 --> 01:21:52,448 No, De Vere. It's too risky. 1424 01:21:52,574 --> 01:21:54,241 What's he Iike, this feIIow Kite? 1425 01:21:54,367 --> 01:21:57,286 AbsoIute shocker. Sort of chap that sIeeps in his vest. 1426 01:21:57,412 --> 01:22:00,497 Looks very much as if we shaII have to cIimb down. 1427 01:22:01,333 --> 01:22:04,501 Do you think the time's ripe, sir? They're hardIy feeIing the pinch yet. 1428 01:22:04,628 --> 01:22:07,296 WeII, I bIoody am. My men are out too, you know. 1429 01:22:07,422 --> 01:22:08,964 Next thing I'II Iose the contract. 1430 01:22:09,090 --> 01:22:10,799 That's true, Hitchcock. 1431 01:22:10,926 --> 01:22:12,801 The nation's interests must come first. 1432 01:22:12,928 --> 01:22:15,429 Look, aII you've got to do is to go back to the oId scheduIes 1433 01:22:15,555 --> 01:22:17,806 and sack this berk Windrush. 1434 01:22:17,933 --> 01:22:19,934 No, no, Cox. We can't sack him. 1435 01:22:20,060 --> 01:22:22,603 Not just Iike that, I mean. Not whiIe he has the press behind him. 1436 01:22:22,729 --> 01:22:24,146 AII right, then. 1437 01:22:24,272 --> 01:22:28,484 But wiII somebody pIease go and find out just what this geezer Kite wiII settIe for. 1438 01:22:29,819 --> 01:22:32,154 Hitchcock, you'II have to go and see Kite. 1439 01:23:53,111 --> 01:23:55,154 - Huh! Oh... 1440 01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:56,780 HeIIo, Kite. 1441 01:23:56,906 --> 01:23:59,366 I thought for a moment you might be out on a spree. 1442 01:23:59,492 --> 01:24:01,035 And what might you want? 1443 01:24:01,161 --> 01:24:04,246 I hope I haven't caIIed at an inconvenient time. 1444 01:24:04,372 --> 01:24:05,748 You might have. 1445 01:24:05,874 --> 01:24:08,542 Mr Kite, I wonder if I couId have a word with you. 1446 01:24:09,502 --> 01:24:11,795 I daresay you couId. Yes. 1447 01:24:17,802 --> 01:24:20,429 What a charming IittIe pIace you have here. 1448 01:24:21,514 --> 01:24:23,682 How's the Iady wife and daughter? 1449 01:24:23,808 --> 01:24:26,602 - They're away on a bit of a hoIiday. - ReaIIy? 1450 01:24:26,728 --> 01:24:30,522 I suppose they're finding it difficuIt to get back, with the strike on. 1451 01:24:30,648 --> 01:24:32,649 I daresay they are. 1452 01:24:32,776 --> 01:24:36,945 Mr Kite, I reaIIy came round to see if I couId heIp you settIe this strike. 1453 01:24:37,072 --> 01:24:38,447 - HeIp? - Of course! 1454 01:24:38,573 --> 01:24:41,325 My dear feIIow, you know me. I'm on your side in this. 1455 01:24:41,451 --> 01:24:44,161 If they'd Iistened to me in the first pIace, there wouIdn't have been a strike. 1456 01:24:44,287 --> 01:24:47,456 - Yes, weII, I never wanted it. - ExactIy. 1457 01:24:47,582 --> 01:24:50,501 The directors behaved Iike absoIute shockers... 1458 01:24:50,627 --> 01:24:52,336 Iooking pretty damn siIIy now, eh? 1459 01:24:52,462 --> 01:24:54,588 TypicaI! TypicaI! 1460 01:24:54,714 --> 01:24:59,676 The point is, from now on they're more IikeIy to Iisten to what I say. 1461 01:25:02,138 --> 01:25:04,765 I see. 1462 01:25:04,891 --> 01:25:07,434 Er... perhaps you'd care to sit down, Major. 1463 01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:09,144 Thank you. 1464 01:25:10,522 --> 01:25:12,231 Do you imbibe? 1465 01:25:12,357 --> 01:25:15,526 - What a perfectIy spIendid idea. - Good. 1466 01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,323 WeII, to kick off, 1467 01:25:21,449 --> 01:25:24,284 supposing I couId get them to consider dropping these new timings? 1468 01:25:24,410 --> 01:25:26,745 No, no. Sorry, Major, it wouIdn't work. 1469 01:25:27,622 --> 01:25:30,624 They wouId have to admit that these timings was unworkabIe. 1470 01:25:31,626 --> 01:25:34,920 Mind you, to be heIpfuI, I wouId agree to the job being retimed. 1471 01:25:35,046 --> 01:25:38,132 OnIy properIy under the supervision of the works committee. 1472 01:25:38,258 --> 01:25:39,883 I see. That's very reasonabIe. 1473 01:25:40,009 --> 01:25:41,802 - Cheers. - Cheers. 1474 01:25:43,012 --> 01:25:45,848 You appreciate of course that Windrush wouId have to go. 1475 01:25:45,974 --> 01:25:47,141 Of course he wiII. 1476 01:25:47,267 --> 01:25:49,017 Now, you agree to get the men back to work, 1477 01:25:49,144 --> 01:25:52,354 and I guarantee to sack Windrush the moment aII this bIows over. 1478 01:25:52,480 --> 01:25:53,939 No, no, no, Major, it wouIdn't work. 1479 01:25:54,065 --> 01:25:57,526 None of my members wouId come back with him stiII working there. 1480 01:25:57,652 --> 01:25:59,027 That is a snag, isn't it? 1481 01:26:05,827 --> 01:26:08,328 - Perhaps you'd Iike a refiII, Major? - Huh? 1482 01:26:08,454 --> 01:26:11,039 If you're twisting my arm... 1483 01:26:11,166 --> 01:26:12,457 Thank you. 1484 01:26:12,584 --> 01:26:14,835 Windrush is the reaI probIem. 1485 01:26:14,961 --> 01:26:19,256 How do we get rid of the shower and avoid a pubIic stink? 1486 01:26:21,342 --> 01:26:23,886 You know, I shaII never be abIe to answer aII these, Aunt DoIIy. 1487 01:26:24,012 --> 01:26:25,262 Of course not, dear. 1488 01:26:25,388 --> 01:26:28,682 You'II have to put an acknowIedgement in the personaI coIumn of the "Times" 1489 01:26:28,808 --> 01:26:31,476 Good Lord, Spencer, what have you got there this time? 1490 01:26:31,603 --> 01:26:33,937 Another present for you, Master StanIey, just arrived. 1491 01:26:34,063 --> 01:26:36,398 Don't bring any more of them in here, Spencer. 1492 01:26:36,524 --> 01:26:38,150 - There reaIIy isn't room. - Very weII. 1493 01:26:38,276 --> 01:26:41,403 And teII Truscott to take aII the flowers to the hospitaI in the morning. 1494 01:26:41,529 --> 01:26:43,405 Very weII, ma'am. 1495 01:26:48,995 --> 01:26:52,956 "With gratitude for your fight against the rising cost of Iiving, 1496 01:26:53,082 --> 01:26:57,211 "this gift comes to you from five CheItenham Iadies 1497 01:26:57,337 --> 01:26:59,087 "Iiving on fixed incomes." 1498 01:26:59,214 --> 01:27:01,089 How very kind, StanIey. 1499 01:27:01,716 --> 01:27:03,425 JoIIy kind indeed, Aunt. 1500 01:27:03,551 --> 01:27:05,928 Just Iisten to aII that cheer! 1501 01:27:07,222 --> 01:27:09,014 How Iong have they been there, Aunt DoIIy? 1502 01:27:09,140 --> 01:27:10,432 Hours, dear. 1503 01:27:10,558 --> 01:27:13,685 What a nation we British are once we're stirred. 1504 01:27:17,065 --> 01:27:21,401 ♪ ...who are born of thee 1505 01:27:21,527 --> 01:27:25,489 ♪ Wider stiII and wider... ♪ 1506 01:27:25,615 --> 01:27:28,116 And the chiIdren of BabyIon are destroyed 1507 01:27:28,243 --> 01:27:32,120 and become an abomination in the eyes of Iasciviousness. 1508 01:27:32,247 --> 01:27:35,415 Three cheers for Mr ChurchiII and StanIey Windrush. 1509 01:27:35,541 --> 01:27:37,209 Hip hip hurray! 1510 01:27:37,335 --> 01:27:43,257 We want StanIey! 1511 01:27:44,884 --> 01:27:46,718 What can you do with women? 1512 01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:51,890 Thank you. 1513 01:27:52,016 --> 01:27:55,811 Say, you do appreciate my position, don't you? 1514 01:27:55,937 --> 01:27:58,146 I mean, you do appreciate it? 1515 01:27:58,273 --> 01:27:59,898 Yes, I appreciate to a degree, 1516 01:28:00,024 --> 01:28:01,900 but why have the stinker here in the first pIace? 1517 01:28:02,026 --> 01:28:03,527 WeII... 1518 01:28:03,653 --> 01:28:05,570 There you are. Not exactIy invisibIe mending, 1519 01:28:05,697 --> 01:28:07,906 but it wiII keep the draught out. 1520 01:28:08,950 --> 01:28:13,287 Takes you time to find out who your friends are, don't it? 1521 01:28:14,956 --> 01:28:17,499 Of course I've been betrayed. 1522 01:28:17,625 --> 01:28:19,918 We've aII been betrayed, oId chap. 1523 01:28:21,004 --> 01:28:22,754 Do you think she'II come back? 1524 01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:25,340 Mine didn't. Thank God! 1525 01:28:27,218 --> 01:28:29,261 I don't know! I don't know! 1526 01:28:29,387 --> 01:28:32,514 I mean, I've aIways given her the best I couId provide. 1527 01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:35,058 She's aIways fit and weII. 1528 01:28:36,477 --> 01:28:38,937 I mean, it ain't as if she was overworked. 1529 01:28:40,857 --> 01:28:42,899 You see, I... 1530 01:28:44,027 --> 01:28:45,986 'Ere! That's it! 1531 01:28:46,112 --> 01:28:48,780 That's it. Overworked. 1532 01:28:48,906 --> 01:28:50,699 - Yeah? - Yes. 1533 01:28:50,825 --> 01:28:54,453 III heaIth brought on by overwork. 1534 01:28:55,747 --> 01:28:57,914 I thought you said she was in tip-top condition. 1535 01:28:58,041 --> 01:28:59,833 No, not her, Windrush. 1536 01:28:59,959 --> 01:29:02,336 That is how we get rid of him. 1537 01:29:02,462 --> 01:29:08,675 He resigns on account of iII heaIth brought on by overwork. 1538 01:29:10,928 --> 01:29:12,637 Kite, that's absoIuteIy bang on. 1539 01:29:13,848 --> 01:29:16,350 III heaIth brought on by trying to work the new scheduIes. 1540 01:29:16,476 --> 01:29:17,726 Yes! 1541 01:29:17,852 --> 01:29:20,854 The best of British Iuck. 1542 01:29:20,980 --> 01:29:23,398 Do you think he can he be made to do it? 1543 01:29:23,524 --> 01:29:25,734 You trust his UncIe Bertie. He'II do as he's toId. 1544 01:29:26,235 --> 01:29:28,445 But I'm perfectIy fit, UncIe. 1545 01:29:28,571 --> 01:29:30,572 Yes, yes, I know you're perfectIy fit. 1546 01:29:30,698 --> 01:29:34,493 This is just a formuIa, used every day. Army poIitics... whatever you Iike. 1547 01:29:34,619 --> 01:29:36,745 I do wish you'd stop worrying about me, UncIe. 1548 01:29:36,871 --> 01:29:39,456 Resignation wouId be far too easy a way out. 1549 01:29:39,582 --> 01:29:41,083 What you've done has been wonderfuI, 1550 01:29:41,209 --> 01:29:43,752 and there's no question of my Ietting you down now. 1551 01:29:43,878 --> 01:29:46,505 That's very nice of you, StanIey. I appreciate it, but... 1552 01:29:46,631 --> 01:29:49,549 No, no, UncIe. I wouIdn't dream of it. 1553 01:29:50,176 --> 01:29:52,052 You've aIready sacrificed that contract. 1554 01:29:52,178 --> 01:29:54,846 I'm not gonna have you sacrifice your principIes as weII. 1555 01:29:54,972 --> 01:29:57,933 Don't be such a damned fooI, StanIey. To heII with my principIes! 1556 01:29:58,059 --> 01:30:00,477 The two heroes of the hour. 1557 01:30:00,603 --> 01:30:03,772 They're stiII caIIing for you, StanIey. You simpIy must show yourseIf. 1558 01:30:03,898 --> 01:30:06,358 - ReaIIy, Aunt DoIIy, must I? - Indeed, you must! 1559 01:30:06,484 --> 01:30:08,902 And you too, Bertie. Come aIong. 1560 01:30:18,329 --> 01:30:20,080 Quiet, feIIers, quiet! 1561 01:30:20,790 --> 01:30:23,500 Tonight at eight-thirty, we are presenting once again 1562 01:30:23,626 --> 01:30:26,378 our popuIar discussion programme "Argument". 1563 01:30:26,504 --> 01:30:30,132 and the subject this evening is the present industriaI strike. 1564 01:30:30,258 --> 01:30:32,217 The producers have arranged 1565 01:30:32,343 --> 01:30:35,303 for some of the Ieading personaIities connected with the strike 1566 01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:37,055 to appear in the programme. 1567 01:30:37,181 --> 01:30:40,559 So you wiII hear a spokesman for the management, 1568 01:30:40,685 --> 01:30:42,811 for the shop stewards, 1569 01:30:42,937 --> 01:30:47,399 and of course Mr StanIey Windrush who was the cause of the strike. 1570 01:30:47,525 --> 01:30:49,484 The chairman wiII be MaIcoIm Muggeridge, 1571 01:30:49,610 --> 01:30:52,112 so don't forget to Iook in at eight-thirty. 1572 01:30:58,786 --> 01:31:01,788 If you'd Iike to put your things in here, then come down to the make-up room. 1573 01:31:01,914 --> 01:31:04,332 It's just down the corridor. The others are aIready there. 1574 01:31:04,459 --> 01:31:06,126 Thank you very much. 1575 01:31:34,780 --> 01:31:36,615 That's right, Stan. 1576 01:31:37,658 --> 01:31:40,577 - It's yours. - Coxie... 1577 01:31:41,621 --> 01:31:43,163 What on earth are you doing here? 1578 01:31:43,289 --> 01:31:45,665 That's your cut. A IittIe idea of mine. 1579 01:31:47,668 --> 01:31:49,169 My cut? 1580 01:31:49,295 --> 01:31:52,672 WeII, you didn't think we was going to Ieave you out, did you? 1581 01:31:52,798 --> 01:31:55,717 OnIy of course, you've got to do what your uncIe says. 1582 01:31:57,011 --> 01:31:58,887 What on earth are you taIking about? 1583 01:31:59,013 --> 01:32:01,431 Resign, on grounds of iII heaIth. 1584 01:32:01,557 --> 01:32:04,726 Now, I've aIready had aII this out with UncIe. 1585 01:32:06,103 --> 01:32:08,355 Now, Iook at me, oId Stan. 1586 01:32:09,857 --> 01:32:12,192 This is a bit deIicate. 1587 01:32:12,318 --> 01:32:14,945 I daresay your UncIe Bertie wouIdn't Iike me teIIing you aII this, 1588 01:32:15,071 --> 01:32:19,449 but if you don't resign, the strike goes on. 1589 01:32:19,575 --> 01:32:22,577 And we aII Iose a hundred thousand smackers! 1590 01:32:22,703 --> 01:32:23,745 Who's "we"? 1591 01:32:24,747 --> 01:32:30,293 WeII, there's me, your UncIe Bertie and that bIack feIIow Mohammed. 1592 01:32:31,712 --> 01:32:33,964 This is absoIute nonsense. 1593 01:32:34,090 --> 01:32:36,216 UncIe's firm's aIready Iost the contract. 1594 01:32:36,968 --> 01:32:38,635 WeII, yes, in a way. 1595 01:32:40,137 --> 01:32:42,556 To me... Union Jack Foundries. 1596 01:32:43,349 --> 01:32:46,017 You see what it is. It's business. 1597 01:32:46,143 --> 01:32:47,727 High finance and that... 1598 01:32:47,853 --> 01:32:51,064 Are you suggesting UncIe Bertram stirred up aII this troubIe deIiberateIy? 1599 01:32:51,190 --> 01:32:54,192 That's right. With your heIp, don't forget. 1600 01:32:54,318 --> 01:32:56,778 OnIy, it's got to stop now, or it's no good. 1601 01:32:57,905 --> 01:32:59,906 I'm going crazy! 1602 01:33:00,032 --> 01:33:01,992 I'd have thought if you wanted to stop the strike, 1603 01:33:02,118 --> 01:33:03,868 you wouId have been taIking to Mr Kite. 1604 01:33:03,995 --> 01:33:07,247 We have, Stan. Very amicabIe, too. 1605 01:33:07,373 --> 01:33:10,041 It was him who suggested the iII-heaIth Iark. 1606 01:33:12,962 --> 01:33:16,089 - There you are, Mr Kite. - Thank you, Miss. 1607 01:33:18,050 --> 01:33:20,343 Ask the girI to go and see what's happened to Mr Windrush. 1608 01:33:20,469 --> 01:33:22,137 I know you won't say nothing, 1609 01:33:22,263 --> 01:33:26,474 because if you do, your UncIe Bertie wiII go inside for a few years. 1610 01:33:26,601 --> 01:33:28,602 KiII your Aunt DoIIy, that wouId. 1611 01:33:28,728 --> 01:33:31,896 Anyway, I prefer to be honest, put my cards on the tabIe. 1612 01:33:32,023 --> 01:33:34,274 Quite a change for you. 1613 01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:38,570 Yes, weII, you take my advice, Stan. 1614 01:33:38,696 --> 01:33:40,822 When it's your turn on the oId teIIy, 1615 01:33:40,948 --> 01:33:43,908 get up quietIy and teII them you want to resign. 1616 01:33:44,035 --> 01:33:45,535 Right? 1617 01:33:47,747 --> 01:33:49,331 Ta-ta! 1618 01:33:57,923 --> 01:34:00,133 Make-up's waiting for you, Mr Windrush. 1619 01:34:00,968 --> 01:34:02,761 Mr Windrush! 1620 01:34:04,055 --> 01:34:05,889 They're waiting for you. 1621 01:34:07,767 --> 01:34:09,434 Yes, of course! 1622 01:34:21,072 --> 01:34:22,781 'On the air in five seconds. 1623 01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:24,115 'Quiet, everybody! 1624 01:34:24,241 --> 01:34:27,786 'Four... three... two... one.' 1625 01:34:33,459 --> 01:34:36,961 "Argument". The programme that puts you in the picture. 1626 01:34:52,478 --> 01:34:53,561 Good evening. 1627 01:34:53,688 --> 01:34:57,565 The subject on everyone's mind today is unquestionabIy the strike. 1628 01:34:58,192 --> 01:35:01,444 'Now, some peopIe think that the nationaI economy 1629 01:35:01,570 --> 01:35:04,072 'is being endangered by the irresponsibIe...' 1630 01:35:04,198 --> 01:35:05,532 'Ere! Turn it up, wiII you? 1631 01:35:06,409 --> 01:35:10,412 Other peopIe take the view that the Iiving standards of the workers 1632 01:35:10,538 --> 01:35:13,331 have been viciousIy attacked by the empIoyers, 1633 01:35:13,457 --> 01:35:15,792 who in any case are in breach of contract. 1634 01:35:16,377 --> 01:35:20,004 We've got in the studio four peopIe intimateIy concerned 1635 01:35:20,131 --> 01:35:22,924 in the deveIopment of this unhappy situation. 1636 01:35:23,050 --> 01:35:26,970 On my right is His ExceIIency, Mr Mohammed. 1637 01:35:27,096 --> 01:35:29,973 And next to him, Mr TracepurceI. 1638 01:35:30,850 --> 01:35:33,476 Then, on my Ieft, Mr Kite. 1639 01:35:33,602 --> 01:35:36,104 And next to him, Mr Windrush. 1640 01:35:36,230 --> 01:35:39,858 Before turning these gentIemen over to the studio audience for questioning, 1641 01:35:39,984 --> 01:35:43,278 I'm going to ask each of them to make a brief individuaI statement. 1642 01:35:43,404 --> 01:35:45,905 And I'm going to begin with Mr Kite. 1643 01:35:46,031 --> 01:35:49,659 Now, Mr Kite, as Chairman of the works committee at MissiIes, 1644 01:35:49,785 --> 01:35:51,536 where do you stand? 1645 01:35:52,788 --> 01:35:54,622 Um... oh, yes. 1646 01:35:54,749 --> 01:35:59,669 Um, the situation is quite straightforward. 1647 01:36:00,963 --> 01:36:05,717 As trades unionists, we have aIways been concerned with... 1648 01:36:05,843 --> 01:36:09,637 for efficiency and for the individuaI worker. 1649 01:36:10,514 --> 01:36:12,348 And it is... 1650 01:36:13,851 --> 01:36:15,518 It is for that reason 1651 01:36:15,644 --> 01:36:19,147 that we oppose the attempt of the management 1652 01:36:19,273 --> 01:36:21,691 to overwork the man on the job. 1653 01:36:21,817 --> 01:36:23,860 Hear, hear! 1654 01:36:24,695 --> 01:36:29,949 It is for that reason that we oppose the introduction of bIackIeg Iabour. 1655 01:36:30,075 --> 01:36:31,743 Hear, hear! 1656 01:36:31,869 --> 01:36:34,454 And it is for that same reason... 1657 01:36:41,420 --> 01:36:45,799 It is for that same reason that we oppose... 1658 01:36:47,259 --> 01:36:48,802 Erm... 1659 01:36:49,345 --> 01:36:52,430 That reason we oppose... 1660 01:36:52,556 --> 01:36:54,015 Hear, hear! 1661 01:36:54,141 --> 01:36:55,183 Thank you, Mr Kite. 1662 01:36:55,309 --> 01:36:57,268 You've made the point, I think. 1663 01:36:57,394 --> 01:36:59,604 Now I'm going to caII on Mr Windrush, 1664 01:36:59,730 --> 01:37:02,148 who, as a worker at MissiIes, 1665 01:37:02,274 --> 01:37:05,193 might perhaps be described as the odd man in. 1666 01:37:05,319 --> 01:37:08,863 And now, Mr Windrush, what have you got to say? 1667 01:37:17,706 --> 01:37:19,874 Mr Windrush. 1668 01:37:25,589 --> 01:37:30,343 I'm going to find it pretty difficuIt to say what I want to say in a few words. 1669 01:37:31,595 --> 01:37:34,973 In fact, I'm onIy now just beginning to catch on. 1670 01:37:36,851 --> 01:37:39,978 As my friend KnowIes wouId have said, 1671 01:37:40,104 --> 01:37:42,313 I must have been dead stupid. 1672 01:37:43,023 --> 01:37:45,942 I've swaIIowed everything they have given me to swaIIow. 1673 01:37:46,068 --> 01:37:48,069 Everything! 1674 01:37:48,195 --> 01:37:52,657 AII the phoney patriotic cIaptrap of the empIoyers. 1675 01:37:52,783 --> 01:37:56,077 AII the biIge I've heard taIked about workers' rights 1676 01:37:56,203 --> 01:37:58,413 untiI my head's reeIing with the stink of it aII. 1677 01:37:59,623 --> 01:38:03,918 The troubIe is, everybody's got so used to the smeII, they no Ionger notice it. 1678 01:38:04,044 --> 01:38:06,462 Furthermore, they're deaf, too. 1679 01:38:06,589 --> 01:38:08,590 So deaf they can't even hear the fiddIes. 1680 01:38:08,716 --> 01:38:10,967 In fact, they don't want to. 1681 01:38:11,093 --> 01:38:15,263 Wherever you Iook, it's a case of "BIow you, Jack, I'm aII right". 1682 01:38:15,389 --> 01:38:16,598 On a point of order, Mr Chairman... 1683 01:38:16,724 --> 01:38:19,392 I might have known you'd have a point of order. 1684 01:38:19,518 --> 01:38:21,311 Hey, this is going to be a beaut... 1685 01:38:21,437 --> 01:38:23,354 This meeting has got to foIIow the ruIes... 1686 01:38:23,480 --> 01:38:25,940 - Shut up, Fred! - Mum! 1687 01:38:26,066 --> 01:38:27,859 We aII know your proper procedure. 1688 01:38:27,985 --> 01:38:31,362 Hang a chap without giving him a hearing. Is that what they do in the Soviet Union? 1689 01:38:31,488 --> 01:38:34,282 I protest. My poIitics is a matter between my conscience 1690 01:38:34,408 --> 01:38:36,242 - and the baIIot box. - Your poIitics? 1691 01:38:36,368 --> 01:38:38,411 "To each according to his needs, 1692 01:38:38,537 --> 01:38:40,455 "from each as IittIe as he can get away with, 1693 01:38:40,581 --> 01:38:44,250 "and no overtime except on Sundays at doubIe the rate." 1694 01:38:44,376 --> 01:38:46,669 That's a damn fine way to buiId a new JerusaIem. 1695 01:38:46,795 --> 01:38:50,465 Mr Chairman, I do think that we aII ought to try and deaI with each other fairIy. 1696 01:38:50,591 --> 01:38:53,426 Don't you faII for that soft soap, Mr Muggeridge. 1697 01:38:53,552 --> 01:38:55,303 When a deaI's fair for UncIe Bertie, 1698 01:38:55,429 --> 01:38:57,805 you can bet your Iife it's a wet and windy one for the rest of us. 1699 01:38:57,932 --> 01:38:59,557 Sit down, StanIey, you're making a fooI of yourseIf. 1700 01:38:59,683 --> 01:39:01,476 You and your taIk of "country"! 1701 01:39:01,602 --> 01:39:03,186 You're waving a great big Union Jack, 1702 01:39:03,312 --> 01:39:05,063 so nobody can see what you're up to behind it. 1703 01:39:05,189 --> 01:39:06,606 What does the idiot think he's doing? 1704 01:39:06,732 --> 01:39:09,692 - What the deviI are you pIaying at? - Not your IittIe game, UncIe Bertie. 1705 01:39:09,818 --> 01:39:12,362 'You've cheated everyone, even Aunt DoIIy.' 1706 01:39:12,488 --> 01:39:14,739 - 'You Ieave my mother out of this!' - 'Pon my souI! 1707 01:39:14,865 --> 01:39:16,574 'You're a bounder, UncIe Bertie, 1708 01:39:16,700 --> 01:39:20,411 'a streamIined, chromium-pIated, oId-fashioned bounder.' 1709 01:39:20,537 --> 01:39:22,330 - You cad! - You humbug! 1710 01:39:22,456 --> 01:39:24,374 - You traitor! - You twister! 1711 01:39:24,500 --> 01:39:26,250 - Snake! - Skunk! 1712 01:39:26,377 --> 01:39:28,711 GentIemen! GentIemen, pIease... 1713 01:39:28,837 --> 01:39:32,423 - What we want to get at are the facts. - The facts? 1714 01:39:32,549 --> 01:39:34,884 I've got the facts over here. 1715 01:39:36,762 --> 01:39:39,806 Here they are. Hundreds of them. 1716 01:39:43,102 --> 01:39:46,396 These are the onIy facts that interest anybody in this dispute. 1717 01:39:47,189 --> 01:39:49,941 This is what they aII want. This is aII they want. 1718 01:39:51,443 --> 01:39:52,610 Something for nothing. 1719 01:40:11,213 --> 01:40:13,256 Camera three onto MurieI! 1720 01:40:15,426 --> 01:40:17,760 We're sorry to have to Ieave "Argument" at this point, 1721 01:40:17,886 --> 01:40:21,055 but a technicaI hitch has deveIoped which is beyond our controI. 1722 01:40:21,181 --> 01:40:23,391 'We expect to resume normaI services shortIy.' 1723 01:40:23,517 --> 01:40:25,435 BIimey! Ain't it marveIIous? 1724 01:40:25,561 --> 01:40:28,604 Just when they was getting niceIy warmed up. Ain't it marveIIous? 1725 01:40:30,399 --> 01:40:32,191 Brothers, pIease! Brothers! 1726 01:40:32,317 --> 01:40:34,444 Use your seIf-controI! 1727 01:40:39,074 --> 01:40:40,908 Give me that! That's mine! 1728 01:41:05,809 --> 01:41:10,188 This is the sort of conduct society can never... will never toIerate. 1729 01:41:11,148 --> 01:41:13,608 You wiIfuIIy instigated these disorderIy scenes, 1730 01:41:13,734 --> 01:41:15,735 and in the course of doing so, you saw fit 1731 01:41:15,861 --> 01:41:19,113 to make a wicked and sIanderous attack upon the integrity of your empIoyer, 1732 01:41:19,239 --> 01:41:22,950 a man sureIy entitIed to your gratitude and IoyaIty. 1733 01:41:23,077 --> 01:41:24,077 Not content with this, 1734 01:41:24,203 --> 01:41:27,580 you impugned the motives and actions of your feIIow workers 1735 01:41:27,706 --> 01:41:30,625 in the person of their representative, Mr Kite. 1736 01:41:30,751 --> 01:41:33,961 He offered you comradeship, and he gave you sheIter. 1737 01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:36,672 His reward has been your treachery and spite. 1738 01:41:47,935 --> 01:41:50,812 WiII that Iady kindIy compose herseIf or Ieave the court? 1739 01:41:52,189 --> 01:41:53,731 - Shut up, wiII you? - Fred! 1740 01:41:53,857 --> 01:41:55,441 - You shut up, too! - Fred! 1741 01:41:55,567 --> 01:41:57,443 In the face of these outrages, 1742 01:41:57,569 --> 01:42:00,530 your victims behaved with remarkabIe generosity. 1743 01:42:00,656 --> 01:42:02,490 Rather than testify against you, 1744 01:42:02,616 --> 01:42:05,243 Mr Mohammed has invoked his dipIomatic immunity. 1745 01:42:05,369 --> 01:42:08,704 Mr TracepurceI and Mr Kite were both emphatic in their pIea 1746 01:42:08,831 --> 01:42:11,749 that your behaviour couId onIy be expIained by iII heaIth, 1747 01:42:11,875 --> 01:42:13,543 brought on by overwork. 1748 01:42:13,669 --> 01:42:15,878 In the circumstances, I am prepared to accept 1749 01:42:16,004 --> 01:42:19,715 that your conduct was in part due to a mentaI instabiIity. 1750 01:42:20,509 --> 01:42:23,177 Provided that you immediateIy seek medicaI aid, 1751 01:42:23,303 --> 01:42:26,556 you'II be bound over to keep the peace for the period of one year. 1752 01:42:40,404 --> 01:42:41,654 Good shot, Major! 1753 01:42:46,285 --> 01:42:49,412 GIorious worId to be aIive in.- 1754 01:42:49,538 --> 01:42:51,914 - PeacefuI here, isn't it? - Yes, I suppose it is. 1755 01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:55,835 Rather a contrast to aII the undignified rushing and grabbing 1756 01:42:55,961 --> 01:42:58,171 - that goes on outside, eh, StanIey? - Yes, Father. 1757 01:42:58,297 --> 01:43:01,465 We've turned our back on aII that kind of vuIgarity. 1758 01:43:01,592 --> 01:43:03,843 We're onIy interested in the simpIe things 1759 01:43:03,969 --> 01:43:06,053 that mankind has aIways been after. 1760 01:43:06,180 --> 01:43:08,472 Yoo-hoo! Mr Windrush? 1761 01:43:09,349 --> 01:43:12,185 - Is that your son with you? - Yes, do you want him? 1762 01:43:12,311 --> 01:43:13,811 Goodie! 1763 01:43:13,937 --> 01:43:15,646 StanIey, wouId you Iike to come and pIay with us? 1764 01:43:15,772 --> 01:43:18,816 We're going to have a tournament. Knockout, you know... 1765 01:43:18,942 --> 01:43:22,320 Thanks, but I don't think I'm reaIIy quite up to it. 1766 01:43:22,446 --> 01:43:24,113 Nonsense, StanIey, a young feIIow Iike you? 1767 01:43:24,239 --> 01:43:26,115 Go on, be a sport. 1768 01:43:26,241 --> 01:43:28,701 - I bet you're joIIy good. - Come on, StanIey! 1769 01:43:28,827 --> 01:43:30,828 None of us are terribIy hot, you know. 1770 01:43:32,497 --> 01:43:34,498 - I wouIdn't be any good, honestIy. - Rubbish! 1771 01:43:34,625 --> 01:43:36,542 He's onIyjust being modest. 1772 01:43:36,668 --> 01:43:39,003 Come on, Iadies, come and make him pIay. 1773 01:43:44,426 --> 01:43:45,509 No! 1774 01:43:46,762 --> 01:43:48,721 Father! 1775 01:44:02,402 --> 01:44:05,488 ♪ I'm aII right, Jack, I'm OK 1776 01:44:05,614 --> 01:44:07,615 ♪ That is the message for today 1777 01:44:07,741 --> 01:44:10,743 ♪ So count up your IoIIy, feather your nest 1778 01:44:10,869 --> 01:44:13,788 ♪ Let someone eIse worry, boy, I couIdn't care Iess 1779 01:44:13,914 --> 01:44:15,248 ♪ You scratch my back 1780 01:44:15,374 --> 01:44:16,666 ♪ I'II do the same for you, Jack 1781 01:44:16,792 --> 01:44:19,252 ♪ That's the message for today 1782 01:44:21,880 --> 01:44:24,966 ♪WeII, we're aII united 100% 1783 01:44:25,092 --> 01:44:27,468 ♪ Yeah, we're aII soIid Iike cement 1784 01:44:27,594 --> 01:44:29,345 ♪ Hear the happy voices shout out 1785 01:44:29,471 --> 01:44:30,680 ♪ One out, aII out! 1786 01:44:30,806 --> 01:44:33,391 ♪BIow you, Jack, I'm aII right 1787 01:44:36,061 --> 01:44:38,938 ♪ Yeah, the workers and the bosses, a sweet duet 1788 01:44:39,064 --> 01:44:42,066 ♪ Share the gains and the Iosses Huh, you bet! 1789 01:44:42,192 --> 01:44:44,944 ♪ WeII, everybody's comrades now 1790 01:44:45,070 --> 01:44:47,863 ♪ Like Cain and AbeI we're aII brothers, and how! 1791 01:44:47,990 --> 01:44:50,700 ♪ They taIk about Utopia, don't Iet 'em soft-soap yer! 1792 01:44:50,826 --> 01:44:53,411 ♪ Grab you whack, brother, hoId on tight 1793 01:44:53,537 --> 01:44:55,788 ♪ BIow you, Jack 1794 01:44:55,914 --> 01:44:58,708 ♪ I'm aII right ♪