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The strike at the Copenhagen Shipyard.

The Employers' Association has brought
the matter before the industrial courts.

About 2500 workers and 500 office
employees are on strike

because of attempts to secure an order of 4
military vessels from a European country.

Director Sten Grønbech has insisted

that strike action should be avoided
during the period of the contract

and proposed that pay increases
be held at 4% per annum.

The workers have refused to accept this.

What is the background
for your securing the order?

We are still negotiating
the terms of the contract.

Comrades! We call upon
all Danish workers to strike.

Grønbech is curbing our rights
by forbidding us to strike.

Due to stagnation in world trade and
the re-opening of the Suez Canal

which means a shortening of shipping
routes, fewer ships are being built.

Shop stewards at Copenhagen Shipyard and
union representatives from other factories

have set up a General Strike Committee
which is working on spreading the strike.

"Denmark is not going to supply
arms to the EEC army,"

as one of the leaders said to TV-News.

Private yards in Europe
are having a tough time

competing with Eastern
European shipbuilders.

And the oil producing countries

are now so rich that they can build
their own yards and ships.

If they buy ships from Europe at all,

it's generally only used,
second-hand ships.

These factors have led
to a crisis in European ship-building.

I regret to say that
our order book is empty.

Strikes are not just
a Danish phenomenon.

The postal strike in Britain

is in its 7th day

and yesterday the French railwaymen
carried out partial strikes

at all main traffic termini in the country.

FIRST DAY
During previous strikes

we have lacked information.

We have decided that you should try

to get the correct information
as the situation develops.

What do you have to say, May-Britt?

Tina, who works in the tobacco factory,

told me about what
was going on over there.

I called a meeting with my colleagues

and now we've come out on strike too.

- All of you?
- Yes.

Labour Minister Eric Berg,
who has been silent up to now

today had the following comment.

Mr. Minister, you yourself
are a former union man.

What's your opinion of the situation?

Should we manufacture armaments
for a foreign country?

Danish workers have always done so

in accordance with union instructions.

Why should we take such matters
under consideration now?

Maybe they were called warships
in old Danish.

The situation is this:

we are negotiating and,
if we get the order,

we'll build the ships.

Whether you call them warships
or military vessels

to me doesn't seem
to be relevant.

What type of ship will it be?

We have no comment
to make at this point.

Threats of sackings and
the closing down of the yard!

We will not accept that
unemployment be used

as a threat to people
who put in honest day's work.

A joint European defence system
is the main subject

at the 5th meeting
of EEC defence ministers.

Mr. Minister, what is the aim
of this EEC meeting?

The aim, as you very well know,
is two-fold.

We want co-operation
in our joint defence effort

at a time when the situation
looks none too pleasant

and we want to get the economy
on the move again.

What about some concrete information?

Is there something else special about these
boats over and above the high pressure?

They are much smaller
than what we normally build.

They are not more than 130 metres long.

The ships we normally build
are 250 metres long.

Are the boats to be delivered
to another EEC country?

For competitive reasons
I cannot name the country now.

Were there consultations
with the government?

None whatsoever.
The shipyard's own negotiators

have been trying to land the order.

Comrades! Listen, please!

The situation is critical.

We have come to assist
the strike committee's planning.

We must act quickly,
otherwise we've had it.

Confusion seems to reign here.

We've got plans
from the Frederikshavn district.

In Aalborg there have been discussions
about the line of action.

Let's try to coordinate our efforts!

We have asked representatives of the TUC

and the Employers' Association
to comment on the fact

that Danish industry is about to get
military orders from abroad.

We have passed the matter on
to the Industrial Courts

as the strike is illegal.

- Is it a breach of contract?
- Yes, an open breach of contract.

Expressions of sympathy and funds

are streaming into Grundtvig's Hus

where the strike committee
has set up headquarters.

We still lack contact with
concerns like Philips and SAS

and nothing seems
to have happened there as yet.

We're expecting a call
from them any minute though.

I am in contact with
women shop stewards in Aalborg

as well as over in Jutland.

I was working
in a tobacco factory over there

but we've stopped now.

I'm in contact with
the Eva factories in Skive,

the Danish Cleaning Company, B&0,

and Thrige Titan in
both Odense and Aalborg.

In Aalborg they have gone home.
In Odense they are still discussing.

At the Superfoss shipping company
the workers have walked out.

The workers at the
Grindsted Chemical Works

have collected 750 kroner,
which they'll send to us.

The Employers' Association's
legal advisor.

The strike must be declared illegal.

It's a breach of the agreement
we signed with the workers.

We hope that the TUC will respect this

and see to it that people get back to work.

Greetings from members of
the Metal Workers' Union

out at the TV-Centre.

Do we want them to black out
this evening's programme?

It's obvious that the strike is illegal.

It has now been brought
before the industrial courts.

We shouldn't shut down the TV.

We should keep people informed
about what's going on.

I quite agree.

But, the way TV has covered the strike,

will people know what it is all about?

All we hear on TV is what
the employers and the TUC

think about the strike.

Our reasons have never got out.

We from the TUC cannot appeal

strongly enough to the workers
to go back to work immediately.

Who is responsible?

The usual handful

of workers are trying

to cause dissension on the factory floors.

If you ask me they are leftist extremists

but that's a term I'd rather not use.

Cuts have been introduced too

in government social aid
and training programmes.

At the same time
state subsidies and grants

have been dished out to the employers.

Does this mean that the TUC

supports communist-type conditions?

Our policy is clearly democratic.

We have no intention of moving towards
a communist system.

It's democratic to sell the workers
out for war machinery?

The TUC has sold the workers out!
No more, no less!

Does this mean that you're going
to end your strike?

No! Not at all.

The employers, the government,
the top management of the TUC

time after time reach agreements
between themselves.

Down with the TUC!
Out with the TUC!

At Copenhagen Shipyard
some social democrat workers

and others to the right
of the social democrats

want to start negotiations
with the management

in order to avoid a strike.

The people we send out
should urge others

who consider a strike
to look at its consequences.

They have rents to pay.
They have children.

That costs a lot.

We don't want them
to reproach us afterwards

for getting them involved
in a massive conflict

without them being aware
of the consequences.

Let's discuss the matter.

We don't just want comrades
without children to strike.

But the situation is surely such that

any work we might refuse to carry

other yards throughout Europe
would gladly take on.

We could get in touch
with these yards.

I've been unemployed
for a couple of years.

I've learnt not to give in.

These families with children,

will they be better off
if we call off the strike?

Is the subject of this meeting
preparations for an EEC army?

There are no plans to form any EEC army.

Our plans are aimed at strengthening
our joint defence efforts.

Here you see him come out

at 8:30 am.

I timed how long it took him
to go over to his car.

How long did it take?

25 seconds.

Tomorrow the EEC meeting starts,
a preliminary military meeting.

And all this bother is about the fact

that war vessels are going
to be built at Copenhagen Shipyard.

Let me just tell you a thing or two.

Those ships are for France.

They'll be assembled in Cherbourg.

Assembled in Cherbourg but built here?

What can they do that we can't?

Do you know the yard?

How should I know?

There's a naval base in Cherbourg.

Comrades! If we don't take action now

it's going to be like
the thirties all over again.

Could the EEC meeting perhaps not
be seen as a provocation

against the workers who are on strike?

The meeting was planned
a month and a half ago.

It has got nothing to do

with the present situation.

Our mates at the yard say
it's going to be U-boats.

I don't know if it's true.

It hasn't been confirmed.

What other rumours are going about?

- What's your comment to that?
- It's still just guessing.

Guesswork. But you know
that there's seldom smoke...

Do you ever consider
what the ships might be used for?

As I said before, it's a question
of producing a product,

helping the unemployment situation
and the firm.

What the customer uses the product for,
that's his business.

- Not yours?
- No.

According to the Morning News, the order

which Copenhagen Shipyard is negotiating

is for four atomic-powered submarines.

The U-boats are 128 metres long

and can carry 16 ballistic missiles.

SECOND DAY
with a range of 3,000 kilometres.

The missiles can carry atomic warheads.

Comrades! Hold it a minute.

Now we have proof
that the order is for U-boats.

Let's use this fact in
the development of a general strike.

The following have come out on strike

in sympathy with our cause:
the Nordic Cable Company.

Monberg and Thorsen,
the Seaman's Union,

the petrol drivers,
the Danish Industrial Syndicate

and our comrades at F. L. Schmidt.

Expressions of sympathy are streaming in.

We've just received a message
from the shipyard workers

at Blom & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg.

Here's a rough translation:

"Keep up the good fight!
We sympathize with your struggle."

Here's good news too!

Our comrades in Funen
have risen to support us!

"We're trying to get work stopped.

Accept our sympathy for your action."

Signed Hans Fälster, shop steward.

He leaves at 8:15 now.

Yesterday the workers at Thrige Titan
laid down their tools.

The total number of workers on strike
is now 87,000.

It's a great honour and pleasure...

Prime Minister Egon Clausen welcomed

the Defence Minister and his staff.

We are here to ensure that Europe
becomes independent

also when it comes to defence matters.

We'll carry out our efforts
in keeping with the Rome Treaty

and in understanding
with our NATO allies.

Let's get down to work!

I'll now call upon my Market Minister

to open proceedings.

I would like to put a question to
the French Defence Minister.

Mr. Minister. Can you give us
any information

about the U-boats
the French Navy has ordered?

What type are they?
Will they carry atomic weapons?

I know nothing about what has
happened as regards the order.

I know that it has caused
anxiety in Denmark.

However I can confirm that France has
sought offers from foreign contractors.

Our yards are fully employed.
So it is natural for France

to approach her European allies
in order to obtain her defence needs.

Is France prepared
to join a European army?

That's a rather sensitive issue.

Are we going to have
atomic explosives on Danish territory?

That is a political question.

It is correct that a Danish shipyard is
negotiating a contract for the building

of hulls for 4 atomic U-boats?

The Danish government has nothing
to do with this.

It has been kept informed, though.

Will Denmark have to stock
nuclear fuel and atomic explosives?

No.

What about atomic weapons?

No.

The Danish Parliament decides
how the defence will be armed

and there's no new defence bill coming up.

It would be hypocritical to build U-boats

and let them be used by others,
washing our hands.

It's one way of getting more work, you say.

There are plenty of orders

from the East European countries
and China.

Why do we then have to build warships?

Doesn't it matter to you?

That's not what it's all about.

The thing is to get people out
at the factories to stand up

and say, "We won't
tolerate this situation!"

We're in the same situation
we've been in for years now.

The socialist parties start squabbling.

We must show solidarity with each other

and create unity within
the labour movement.

How can you as social democrats go on

just looking at this betrayal?

In '72 they promised us that
there'd never be an EEC army.

What have we got? An EEC army!

And they require us
to produce weaponry for it!

France is not giving up
its nuclear deterrent.

France wants to increase
its nuclear weaponry

whilst it works for
a closer defence alliance.

Aren't you disturbed by
this nuclear stock-piling

within common market countries?

I'm worried about the situation
we're in at the moment.

I'm not worried about the future.

Germany has no ambition
to become a nuclear power.

But we realize that
you can't defend Europe

with toy guns or conventional weapons.

It is the right of the employers

to administer and share out work.

The government advises the workers

not to dispute this right.

Then each of the U-boats
will have a nuclear capability

96 times the power
of the Hiroshima bomb?

You'd better ask at Cherbourg.

As I said on TV-News last night,

we're only going to make the hulls.

What fittings the customer
chooses to put in

is his business and responsibility.

I think I know now how this thing works.

How powerful is the transmitter?

With the right aerial
a range of 3 kilometres.

We could have a bit
of bother with that aerial.

Maybe we could fix it to a car.

The opposition requested the
Labour Minister to stop the strike.

Mogens Eriksen MP.
For the Progress Party.

The Minister has shown
a total lack of imagination.

He runs the Ministry as if it were

a sub-section of the
Coach and Body Builder's Union.

It's about time he realized

that he is about to have
a general strike on this hands.

As he may recall from his reading of Marx,

general strikes are a means of

overthrowing the established order.

It was said that Denmark
would not get nuclear weapons.

How do you react to
the German minister's reply?

All that was said was that
the procuration of nuclear weapons

was a decision that would
be made by parliament.

Is such a decision forthcoming?

Hardly.

Minister, what results were achieved?

The meeting was the first of a series.

Nothing worth mentioning?

Each delegation has presented
its point of view of the problems.

That's the answer one always gets.

What about some facts?

That's Broadcasting House.

Here's the main entrance.

One of us goes in, turns to the right,

goes up to the lift to the 4th floor

and into the control room
where we place a time bomb.

There's a programme on TV
about the EEC conference.

That could be interesting.

A lot of things seem
to start at the same time.

I want to hear the prime minister again.

I'm afraid it's going to be
more underhand than it is already.

What do you mean?

He'll probably tell us
to unite and pull together.

I'm afraid that's the sort of crap
we're going to hear.

We should record some tapes.

And we can connect them
directly to the transmitter

and let them run for 10 minutes
before being detected.

Then it's away and it's fast.

How are you getting on
as a woman shop steward?

It's difficult for me to say.

Maybe I have achieved
a few good results.

We've worked out a new bonus system.
I think it's OK.

We did that long ago, though.

The employers take advantage of the fact
that there are so many unemployed around.

They won't negotiate on anything.

It's like hitting your head against a wall.

And your comrades get dissatisfied

because you've failed
to achieve anything.

THIRD DAY

The following demands will have
to be met before I am released.

A stop to all production of
nuclear U-boats in Denmark.

No atomic power stations.

Immediate closing of the EEC meeting.

A new referendum in Denmark
on membership of the EEC.

Denmark's withdrawal from NATO.

Fulfillment of the strikers' demands.

The reading of this message
to the Danish people

in conjunction with this videotape

should take place between
8 pm and 10 pm within 48 hours.

As you see, we find ourselves
in a serious situation.

I ask every one of you
to use all possible means

to clear up this unfortunate business.

Before we part, I'd like a short report.

We have put all the means
at our disposal into use.

We are searching for the
vehicle all over Copenhagen.

We have taken the necessary
measures at airports,

on ferries and main roads.

We are in a state
of complete emergency now.

We are pretty sure
that they are still on Zealand.

Thank you.

My friend and colleague, Jørgen Falk,

Economic and Foreign Minister,
was kidnapped this morning

by a group of unknown persons.

A person delivered a videotape.

Could there be any connection
between the strikers and this?

Not as far as we can see.

- Have you called in foreign experts?
- That shouldn't be necessary.

What will you do to protect
the other delegates?

All necessary precautions.

- What does that mean?
- I can't tell you now.

- Has Jørgen Falk's car been found?
- Not yet.

Why do you think that we're
going to get nuclear weapons?

It says so in the papers.

Copenhagen Shipyard is going
to build 4 U-boats for the French.

You don't seem very well informed.

We hope to build the hulls.

They have got nothing to do
with nuclear charges.

What you say is just as hollow
as the bloody hulls.

Atomic explosives will be housed
in them. That's a fact.

That doesn't mean that Denmark's
going to have nuclear weapons.

Is it our job to make U-boats which are
to be loaded with nuclear explosives?

Stop that bullshit now.

What is the government's reaction?

We haven't come to a decision
about the kidnappers' demands.

I'm relieved to hear that
my colleague is still alive.

General strike!

We say NO to Egon Clausen!

NO to the TUC, which claims
to want to protect our jobs!

Down with the TUC! Out with the TUC!

What can we do to political guerillas?

Why not call them terrorists?
They should be eliminated.

All available men have been sent in

and the Commissioner of Police has
taken command of the operation.

We are absolutely sure that
they are still here on Zealand,

more precisely, in Copenhagen.

Do you believe in a hard-line policy
against this 'non-violent' guerilla group?

Non-violent terrorists? Rubbish!

They kidnap a man by violence

and call themselves non-violent.

You can't negotiate with people like that.

We got our road blocks up so quickly
that they couldn't make a getaway.

Go out into the streets!

Follow the call! Stop work!

Strike! Strike! Strike!

Several politicians have hinted

that there may be a connection
between this affair and the strike.

We have no proof of any connection yet.

I'd like to add that it is strange
that the terrorist group

appears when we're having
a massive nationwide strike.

We've stopped at a road block
near Charlottenlund Fort.

Here's an example of fascism

which is so much part
of the democratic system.

Cars are stopped, people dragged out

and 'relevant' questions are asked.

Everything seems to be relevant
to the security of the State.

Will you call in reinforcements
from other European police forces?

Our local knowledge is
so much superior

that they couldn't be of much help.

Any plans of an EEC
anti-terrorist squad?

Not in the present situation.

What do you think
you are living in now?

A dirty and stinking basement.

What I mean is,
do you live in a democracy?

It's the nearest one can get to it.

Who makes the decisions?

The voters.

What if a firm has to close down?

Who makes the decision in that case?

Is it the workers?

It's difficult to discuss with you.

Who decides whether or not
a firm has to be closed down?

The owners, of course.

As a private individual,
you must have some thoughts

about the order you're acquiring.

You've come to interview me as
a director of the firm. Right?

Do you think so?

Of course I do.
It is in my capacity as director

that I'm negotiating this deal.

First and foremost,

earth to earth rockets

and, furthermore, ballistic rockets
for submarines.

We all have the right to work which
does not stink of the war industry!

What's so bloody funny, then?

You.

You can't see me.
What are you smiling at?

I've got to know you,
a 'non-violent' terrorist.

A non-violent terrorist?

Non-violence... non-violence.

Approximately 5 to 500 kilotons.

Is this the situation you put him in?

Either to produce weapons
to destroy other people

or to end up unemployed.
Is that what you're laughing about?

Yes, that's correct.

The opening of the EEC defence
meeting in Copenhagen

and the news of the conjectured
order for nuclear submarines

are seen as being linked together
in many press reports.

The Washington Post: "It must be
obvious for everyone now

to see the outline
of a new Europe forming,

a power block which will be
defended by an EEC army,

a nuclear deterrent provided
by France and Britain,

and financed by the German Mark."

The Neue Zuricher Zeit comments:

"By smuggling in A-weapons under
cover of a supranational umbrella,

the Germans hope to get
their fingers near to the Atomic button."

Clausen, quote: "We're not going."

That's what the newspapers
always say.

The Warsaw Pact countries
have over 160 Soviet divisions,

comprising 100 motorized,
50 Panzer and 10 airborne divisions.

100 are ready for action

and the rest can be mobilized
within a few weeks.

Do you believe that arming the police
to the teeth is enough?

It's an effective deterrent.

We've got them completely surrounded.

The weather forecast.

Snow can be expected
in the east of the country

with sunny intervals.

Maximum temperatures
around freezing point.

In tomorrow morning's edition
we're going to run a front page story

on the link between the kidnappers
and the leaders of the strike.

BT and Ekstrabladet ran something
today. Not very good, though.

We can do better if we go
a bit deeper into the story.

Gorm, you get hold of
the Minister of Justice

and try and get a word with him
and the Chief of Police.

Martin, you go for
the Minister of Labour,

the chairman of the TUC and
those from the strike committee.

Jesus! They must have
some comment or other.

Find out what connection
there is between the two incidents.

It's obvious that there's a connection.

- Obvious to whom?
- To me, at any rate.

The terrorists appear to be well financed.

They've got lots of cash,
even video equipment.

That sort of equipment doesn't
just fall out of trees.

That's rubbish.

I'm damned if I can see any link.

There must be a connection.

They're all fighting for the same cause.

I'm not saying that
the leaders of the strike

actually sent the terrorists
over to kidnap Falk.

All I'm saying is there is a connection

between these terrorists and
the people behind the strike.

It would be odd if there wasn't.

We demand more police,

assisted by the army and
foreign experts in fighting terrorists.

This intolerable situation must be
brought to an end. Pronto!

What's this, then?

The ministry on Slotsholmen.

The Ministry Of Labour.

Why should we join in
the bourgeois hypocrisy

about Jørgen Falk and his family?

Think of all the workers that
have been killed at work.

The Prime Minister did not
say a word of condolence then,

nor did he mention their families
or speak of democracy.

The difference between
the strike committee and the terrorists

is that we are trying
to organize a mass action

while they perform individual actions.

They do not add strength
to the mass action

nor to the labour movement.

They reduce the ordinary striker
to an onlooker.

Martin was very upset today.

He'd been asked to write an article

on the connection between
the strike and the kidnapping.

I know. He's been talking to
us about it. It's crazy.

It does tend to confuse the whole issue.

It makes people disassociate
with the strike.

It's the wrong way
to deal with the problem.

FOURTH DAY

We're now outside Broadcasting House.

There's police all over the place,

just like there were near the
TV transmitter and the TV centre.

It's quite clear that those in power

want to protect the media

which are their most
effective repressive means.

We've just received more details.

To date the group has been
fairly reasonable, not too extremist.

But we've now received a list

of 42 targets in Copenhagen

which they threaten to attack,
if they don't get it their own way.

They provide the daily.

There's the lack of real information
about, for instance,

the economic crisis and
the armament industry.

We've given the government
a list of places

that we may carry out actions against.

There are another 23 targets

that we haven't told them
we're interested in.

We intend to spread the police force

so that it will be difficult
for those in power

to quash the 'illegal' strike.

It is extremely disturbing to see on TV

the way in which the Danish police

are making raids on so-called
left-wing organizations...

Fascists! Fascists!

The pretext being that they expect
to find partisans

or people who sympathize
with the kidnappers.

We are now in
the Svanemøllevej quarter.

Four men live here with their families.

They are the managing director
of the Private Bank,

the German Ambassador,
the Belgian military attaché

and the director general of IBM.

We have informed the government

that we plan to stage various
actions against these men.

Our threats have succeeded in
bringing oppression up to the surface.

The police have taken up position
outside all the places

where POWER is concentrated.

GO OUT AND HAVE
A GOOD LOOK AT THEM.

What is the government going to do
to restore peace and quiet and order?

We are working very hard
to solve the problem.

I haven't been out
of my clothes for 48 hours.

The same goes for
many of my colleagues.

Is it sufficient to just guard
these potential targets?

These targets are the so-called
group A and group B lists.

Are all the others going
to be left alone?

They're shitting in their pants about
what the media might say

about the rotten state of society.
They concentrate on us,

call us terrorists, men of violence,
anarchists and all that.

Instead of the strike which is
a much greater threat.

They're trying to remove attention from the
terror and violence they practise every day.

RED FRONT! RED FRONT!

The ordinary policeman allows himself

to be ordered to carry out raids

in private homes and in the offices
of political parties.

It's frightening to see

the police arresting the staff of the
Danish Communist Party's office

and driving off with the archives
and card indexes of members.

Cowardly dogs!

We call upon everyone, including
our comrades in the police force.

Stop work!

STRIKE!

Commissioner of Police,
during the search

one has observed occurrences of
police raids on left-wing organizations.

It appears there have not been
similar raids on

so-called right-wing organizations.

Why are the police so sure
that the kidnappers must be leftist?

We are not so sure.

But these groups are well informed
on the whole situation.

So I feel that it is reasonable that
we investigate them.

Are you sure about that?

You only have to read their articles.

Right-wing publications also have
a rather twisted view of things,

wouldn't you say?

They haven't had the same
detail knowledge. That's a fact.

So that justifies these
encroachments on your part

against left-wing organizations?

The documents will be returned
when we have gone through them.

But they supply information
which may be used later on.

That's not really important.

The situation at present is critical.

We have to follow every clue.

We've experienced the arrest of
the democratic freedom of speech

reminiscent of the
West German 'Berufsverbot'.

Could we see your search warrant?

We have a tradition for solving
problems in a democratic way.

We are proud that we have a
democratic form of government.

This system is now threatened
by a group that wants to dictate

its extremist opinions to the majority.

We must protect our society against
forcible encroachments.

We ask for understanding and
cooperation with the police and the army.

In their efforts to protect the citizens
and eliminate the kidnappers.

Who has decided
not to inform the public

about the strikers' demands?

Who has decided that they only
hear about us instead?

You just said that a communiqué
about our action

instead of the demands of the strikers

would be sent out to the press
in every country.

As a member of a
social democratic government,

you should protect
the interests of the workers

and you don't tell anyone
about their action.

The fact that you've got me here
is, journalistically-speaking...

Journalistically? It's the lackeys of
capitalism who control the press

and the media and pay for your swindles.

FIFTH DAY

We're going to be busy again today.

Martin is here because he's dissatisfied
with the placing of his article.

We'll discuss this issue and
I've asked Gorm to be present too.

Martin, tell us briefly
what is bothering you.

I must have misunderstood
what we talked about yesterday.

I've checked to see
if there's a connection

between the workers and their strike
and the kidnappers.

I discovered that
there was no connection.

It wasn't much of a story,

so it was hidden away
on page 8 with the headline,

"STRIKE LEADERS: WE'RE NOT
CONNECTED WITH THE KIDNAPPERS"

My piece on the strike is tucked away
in the middle of the paper

whilst the connection
you want to establish

is given prime space on the front page.

What are we supposed to do, then?

The police happen to have a theory.

Do we hide it along with the obituaries
or do we put it on the front page?

Is it right to print mere theories?

I'm not criticizing your work, Gorm.

Just because the police say
there's a connection,

I suppose it has to be true, eh?

Damn bourgeois paper!

We haven't invented this connection
theory out of the blue.

The article was the combined work
of the entire editorial staff.

A lot of work has been put into it.

We think there's reason
to believe the theory

but we clearly present it
as a theory only.

Surely you know how
people read these things.

They see the headline and
it's an established fact.

It means a lot for the strikers
that people know

that they are not linked
with the terrorist group.

You're trying to reduce the
strike movement to nothing.

Maybe that's your political aim!
Then say so!

Come on! Come on!

Maybe you should concentrate
more on the paper

and think less of the strike committee.

We've seen how difficult it can be
for our democratic system

to cope with acts of violence
directed against it.

Were we caught napping?

What can the police
do about the situation?

These are some of the questions
we hope to get into with.

Minister of Justice Keld Østergaard

and his main critic, Mogens Eriksen.

The opposition has described
the police as, quote,

"weak, divided and confused".

First of all, the police were
in no way caught napping.

The police and the secret service
were prepared to face

such events as we now
have on our hands.

They have undergone intensive training.

They are specialists
in the use of weapons.

They're specialists in close combat.

And they were in a state of
complete readiness.

Working conditions are
so bad out there.

It's bloody cold. Things like gates
standing open all the time.

There's not much you can do about it.

How do you mean?

We can complain about it,
take the problems up at meetings

but it's like hitting your head
against a brick wall.

You don't get anywhere.

I reckon it's the same everywhere.

It's just like going up
and asking for better pay.

You might as well not bother.

I think the employers take
advantage of unemployment.

They use it to keep us down.

I hope people will wake up one day
and start protesting.

We can start with the head.

Not in the head, nor in the larynx,
and not in the collarbone.

We're not far away from
the Amager Power Station.

The place is crawling

with police and soldiers

just like at the Svanemølle and
H.C. Ørsted power stations.

This probably means that
they have spread their forces

or maybe the Civil Defence
has been called in.

The CD has two units trained
to deal with 5th columnists.

They've had training from
the police and the army.

They're experts in guerilla warfare.

They can be put in against
tanks, water cannons,

mortars and machine guns.

The Danish Constitution states
that the CD can only be mobilized

if Denmark is invaded
by a foreign power.

I wouldn't be surprised if they've
managed to find a way out.

Anyway they can get
around it by saying,

"The terrorists are thought
to be German."

Careful.

They're a bloody tough bunch.

The Commissioner calls them
'the hooligans'.

Fire!

You've cleared the way.

You're so bloody naive, you are.

Do you really believe that a group like
ours could cause that to happen?

The watch at all border checkpoints
has been intensified.

All passengers leaving Kastrup Airport
have their luggage checked

and must give an account of the
purpose of their travel.

Armed German frontier guards
are patrolling the border.

I don't know what's going on.

The Germans seem to be very busy,
keeping an eye on developments.

Maybe they're frightened
that the government falls.

Anyway, we're keeping
an eye on them, here.

"The defence ministers of the EEC countries are
telling the press and the TV been more serious"

that "the Red Threat has never"

but we're not buying into that.

Every time the politicians
want new appropriations

they get the intelligence service
to write frightening reports

about mysterious flights
over Danish territory

or Russian trawler activity
in the Baltic.

When they've got the people
sufficiently scared

the new defence appropriations
get passed.

But this time it is not a question
of a few million more.

It's an EEC army they want

equipped with nuclear weapons
and financed by the Germans.

Who'll thus get a say as to how
and when atomic weapons are used.

We say no to atomic power stations
but things go on the same.

It's time we did something.

It'll be too late if a catastrophe
takes place killing thousands.

The generals in the background
are preparing for an atomic war.

Say NO to an EEC army.
Protest against the EEC meeting.

Come out and strike in sympathy with
the workers at Copenhagen Shipyard.

We have to get our newspaper out
come what may.

I'm getting a bit peeved. We should
be doing a whole lot of other work.

The TUC is holding
a press conference today.

Will you be covering it, Martin?

I don't know. It's clearly something
we have to look into.

There are principles involved
which I would like to discuss.

Anyway, I'm not going. There's
no story to get out of the TUC.

They just say what suits them
about the strike.

There's another firm out there.
What the hell's it called?

Radiometer. Have you heard anything
about the reaction out there?

No, not a word. They've sent us nothing.

No reaction, one way or the other.

You've gotta believe me.
I was at the TUC lunch.

We got a hell of a lot to eat and drink.

I was sitting next to
Poul Dalgaard at one point.

What he said
in his beery state was

that they were going to chuck out

51 of the worst union
shop stewards and troublemakers.

They'll be excluded and
put on the blacklist.

What is your comment to
the article in The Morning News?

There has been no talk about
the possible blacklisting

or excluding of strikers.

If the article is false,
are you going to sue?

Our legal consultants
are looking into the matter.

Are you going to sue?

No comment.

- You don't deny it, though?
- No.

Poul Dalgaard.

The Danish Employers' Association
and the TUC

have no plan
to blacklist the workers.

Do you intend to sue
the newspaper?

The matter has been put in the hands
of the TUC's legal advisers.

The result will be announced in the press.

The TUC is really putting
the pressure on now

and so is the union movement.

We must discuss
what we're going to say

in our statement
at tomorrow's demonstration.

We must make demands as regards
the EEC and NATO

and demand things
like the nationalization

of the shipbuilding industry,
the building industry,

insurance companies and banks.

We must get a statement ready
by tomorrow.

But there's something else
of importance.

We must ensure that this demonstration
takes place peacefully.

We must avoid provocations,
at all costs.

Just a minute.

SIXTH DAY
I've just heard

that the government intends to resign

if the situation is not brought
under control quickly.

That's what they should do.

Do you think so?

Yes, I think so.

They must make up their minds
about what they're going to do.

It is a labour government.

They might just as well
say where they stand.

It's a very serious business.

How are we going to continue?

Let's go back to the yard
and take a vote on the issue

after we've all discussed the problem.

Go back to your respective factories
and places of work,

hold meetings and let's find out
if we should continue.

The fact that the government
wants to resign

is another pressure on us.

I can't remain on
the strike commission

if the government
intends to resign.

That's class treason.

Call it what you want.

I'm going back to
my fellow workers

to discuss the situation.

Will you go back to work
if the government resigns?

I'll wait to see how
the demonstration goes,

whether it is attended by 700 or
7,000 or even 100,000.

Listen, we've been responsible for
getting more than 80,000 out on strike

and now you want to
drop the whole thing

because the government
threatens to resign.

It's not bloody fair.

That's no way to treat the 80,000
who are still out on strike.

I agree that we should
show a united front.

I'd like to hear what Maj-Britt
has to say about all this.

I've made up my mind
to stay here and fight on.

I think it's vital
that we stick together.

There's been too much chit-chat and
not enough working together.

I intend to call upon
my girls to stick it out.

It's vital that the women
take part in this action.

There's only one thing to do:
let the police shoot first.

Your work in connection
with the strike

must help to make you more aware.

Yes. In the smaller factories
most women are a bit older

and come from the country.
They're not really aware of things.

Sometimes it's difficult
to get them to understand

that this is really a serious matter,

that they shouldn't accept everything
in order to keep their jobs.

They don't dare say anything,

don't dare to protest for fear
of getting kicked out.

And the employer rubs
his hands with joy.

SEVENTH DAY

SEVENTH DAY
Here you see the place

which we've had under observation.

You'll notice that our people
are strategically placed

to spy on the place.

- Is that one of them there?
- Yes.

I'm 98% sure this is the place
we should concentrate on.

Why?

There's such a lot of activity
going on in this area.

So you intend to go into action there?

Yes.

Of course, some politicians profit
from it personally

but most feel that they
are doing a useful job

which, in fact, they are.

What useful service
were you performing?

One of my high hopes was

that I could help to stop
the swing towards the right

which began in the late 60's.

Comrades. We're assembled
here today to protest

against the gross violations
of our contracts

and our right to strike

which Copenhagen Shipyard
is trying to carry out.

Mr. Grønbech, what do you think

about the possible exclusion
of union leaders?

I think you ought to ask Poul Dalgaard,
the chairman of the TUC.

It's your own people who'll get
kicked out, isn't it?

I have no comment to make.

The situation is grotesque.

I'm trying to save the factory
and the jobs of 4,000 men.

But I have my own family to think of.

So I've accepted an offer
of police protection.

To what extent?
You'd better ask the police.

You can see the police all around you.

Throughout the course of history

the social democratic party
and the TUC

and the unions
and confederations of workers

have frequently succeeded in
spying on, excluding and

persecuting politically active workers.

They have done this
with the assistance

of their own intelligence organizations

as well as bourgeois 'plumber groups'
of the Watergate variety.

We're back in the same old situation.

And once again Poul Dalgaard of
the TUC and the employers

threaten to exclude the strike leaders

who are determined to defend
the workers' right to strike

and the freedom to produce
those products which are necessary.

A state of affairs
which we know only too well

from the fascist dictatorships.

It must stop now.

No weapons, Mr. Grønbech!

We demand true
democratic progress,

a democracy which is
against monopolies

and for the working class.

Comrades. Off we go to Christiansborg.

Let's shout out
our demands so loud

that it sinks into the heads of
those thick-headed politicians.

What do you propose?

The government should stand down
and let others take over.

- Are you thinking of yourself?
- Why not?

As far back as I can remember

the government has been
social democratic.

They filled us with a lot of crap
about freedom and self-realization.

But the whole thing
is just a clever plot

to get people to stay
behind their machines

and then home to watch telly
in the evening.

Venice has been hit
by a dustman's strike

which is threatening the city's
prestige as a tourist attraction.

The social democrats have always
practised co-operation.

The workers have got
no means of vetoing

the production, for instance, of arms.

The Social Democrats are sitting on
the unions and the employers.

This is class co-operation
and death to the individual.

The strikers' general staff today
staged a demonstration

followed by a procession
to Christiansborg.

During the procession 700
demonstrators were arrested

and the police have had to set up
temporary police stations

in schools and institutions.

The government has been criticized

for putting armed police and soldiers
on to the streets.

I suppose that some people
faint at the sight.

All I can say is,
"Let them faint."

Law and order is more important

than the feelings
of a few sensitive people

who can't stand the sight
of our society defending itself.

War production is increasing.

I can't bear seeing our world
go down like this.

We'll have to get people to rise up.

These are the measures
we now have to adopt.

I can't tolerate seeing it all
about to be blown up.

First the workers make the weapons.

Then they have to shoot each other

with the guns they have produced.
I refuse to be part of it.

I would like to answer

the charges made by the Left Socialists
and the Socialist People's Party.

It is true that prior notification
of the demonstration

was given in proper time.

But, as everyone knows,

a group of terrorists is at large,

a group which has taken a member
of this esteemed House hostage.

This problem is not
limited to Denmark.

We're seeing the collapse of
democracy in the Western world.

By definition democracy is obliged

to allow the dictatorship of the rich.

There's no democratic way of fighting it.

We have to awaken people.

Maybe the ideals we're fighting for
will not be popular

because of the methods
we have to adopt.

But, in the long run,
I think we'll win.

70 to 100 demonstrators have been
brought into hospital

because of the wounds they suffered

when the police tried
to break up the demonstration.

A large number are still under arrest.

It is vital for the government that
things cool down a bit.

We'll ask the police to see to that.

Wouldn't it be an idea if
the politicians helped to calm.

EIGHTH DAY
the people down?

EIGHTH DAY

EIGHTH DAY
We've just seen the final proof

that there's a connection between
the strikers and the terrorists

whose actions are even more in
defiance of the law.

They are fighting for the same cause.

I.e. the collapse of our
democratic society.

The workers would not go home

when they were recommended

to call off their demonstration.

They asked for violence
and they got it!

Did you hit him?

I was assaulted
by several constables.

- Did you push him?
- That's a bit difficult when...

- Was there any rioting?
- Surely the police should...

That'll be enough.

Let this man be sentenced to
14 days' imprisonment.

We'll have to use tougher methods.

We must equip our police correctly.

If the terrorists have guns,

the police should have machine guns.

If they have machine guns,

then the police should be equipped
with, I might almost say, artillery.

Gorm checked with the police

and, of course, they didn't reckon

there had been any brutality
on their part.

So my article is unusable.
I happened to be there.

Christ. I can't keep working for a paper

which closes its eyes
to what is going on.

Our police reporters were there too.

There are clearly differing opinions
as to what happened exactly.

Throughout history women
have been responsible

for bringing up children
and looking after the family.

Men have concerned themselves
with the outside world.

We've done our share as women

and believed that the men did their bit.

But they gave us the atomic bomb

and thus the fear that
the whole world might blow up.

They gave us industrial production
and all its insanities.

They gave us the welfare state
but not the right to work.

They gave us the rule of the experts

which divides mankind up into
the knows and the don't knows.

We call on all women
to take the consequences

of their sense of responsibility.

Break your contact with these men.

Stand together and create
the world you want.

We can do it.

There's an extra edition of TV news
tonight at 10:45 pm.

And surrounded the kidnappers.

Once more, we repeat...

We ask everyone to leave No. 35.

Come on out now.

Let the minister come out first.

You others follow him
with your hands up.

One... two... three...

What I find nearly impossible to bear

and I'm not the only one
on the paper who feels this way

is when someone shows feelings about
something one has experienced,

something which you really
have something to say about

then your article has to be edited,
checked and double-checked.

What are you frightened of?

The question is how to get the
information out, isn't it?

People are filled with crap.

In his toughest political speech yet,

Mogens Eriksen demanded
further tightening

of measures against
'the anti-constitutional elements'.

We must express our opinions,
futile though that may be.

We don't have freedom
of speech anymore.

We're going to be crushed,
don't you think?

Beaten, whipped,
hit, struck down.

We've felt it on our bodies.

We must keep a closer check on those
who are against the constitution.

The State must be cautious
about who it employs.

Many of these subversive elements
sit in key positions

and work for the downfall of
the established order.

Dear friends, we must
prepare a letter

which we must send to every corner
of this country,

stressing what pressures we're
being subjected to.

We'll write about how
police brutality works in this country.

I've had a call from Poul Dalgaard.

He was not in a friendly mood.

They've blacklisted
all the workers the TUC don't like

in co-operation with others
who want peace and quiet.

What does the labour situation
look like now

down at Copenhagen Shipyard?

I feel fairly optimistic.

The fact that the workers
have decided to have a meeting...

I see it as a positive development.

Does this mean that
they'll take a new vote?

That's the intention.

How do you think
the vote's going to go?

Let's wait and see.

I believe that the sensible workers

who want to keep their jobs

will vote for going back to work.

I pronounce the verdict of this court:

The charges against the detained
Ewald Jensen are upheld.

We must change the laws
to give the police greater powers

to arrest those they suspect

and the unions must
intensify their methods

of removing subversive elements
from within their own midst.

As the conditions for the application

of paragraph 780, section 1,
no. 20 are fulfilled.

Ewald Jensen will be imprisoned
for a period of 14 days.

It's no good any more
to let extremists and radicals

work in factories
and join the unions.

Mr. Justice Minister,
yesterday we saw on TV

how the kidnapping affair
was brought to an end

by the use of gas shells, etc.

Is this what can be expected
in the future?

We have to take the measures
we deem necessary.

But there was no real danger.

The kidnappers claimed
to be non-violent.

We've heard that song before.

Nevertheless, it ended with murder.

It has been made clear from the start
that this was not what they wanted.

Correct. But we must try
to maintain law and order.

The media proclaim
us to be terrorists.

But who are the terrorists?

They make us unemployed

so they can force us
to work in war production

like Hitler, who created work
by building autobahns

and keeping armament
production booming.

They don't think of
the consequences.

In their eyes, it's naive
to look ahead,

it's not 'concrete talk' to realize
that politics and rearmament

lead us toward self-destruction.

They want to murder us.

Is the strike going to peter out?

That's what the middle-class

and social democratic press
try to make it seem like.

It's out of the question.

I expect that it'll become
more intensified

with the police beating us
and the authorities and the press

trying to gang up on the workers.

At the moment this country
is a police state.

Won't tougher police methods
bring about greater violence?

I don't think so.

If you're talking about
the use of gas shells,

we must control the situation
and liberate the hostage

and the use of gas is
preferable to other methods

which could be more dangerous.

We've come so far that people
can see which side to support,

namely the workers.

Is it 'the revolutionary situation'?

If the authorities go
off the rails just once more

we'll have a situation
ripe for revolution.

A government which has organized
the police to beat the workers

and has caused
massive unemployment

now wants the blacklisting

of workers who refuse
to work on armaments.

What are your plans now?

At the moment we're able to cut off

oil supplies within 3 hours.

You know what that means.

Following the treatment

I received yesterday

whilst attending
a lawful demonstration

I have reconsidered my position.

I can say this now...

I'm continuing with
even greater energy than before.

You heard the director
of police say

that they had kept
to the letter of the law.

I think we should contact
our friends at the TV Centre

and take them up on
their offer to black out TV.

I just spoke with Martin
of the Morning News.

He's lost his job
as industrial correspondent.

They've given him an office job.

So we can't use that paper as an outlet.

Martin said, though, that some
of his journalist friends

had given the impression
they'd help us.

But we must also formulate

the demands of the Danish
working class and wage earners,

demands for the nationalization
of this industry

which threatens to bring Denmark
to the brink of war.

It's not just politics.

It has to do with people
and human rights.

Shall our children grow up

EVENINGLAND
in a police state like this one?

I've got two kids myself.
Are they to grow up in all this?