I'm All Right Jack Page #10

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- Huh?

If you're twisting my arm...

Thank you.

Windrush is the reaI probIem.

How do we get rid of the shower

and avoid a pubIic stink?

You know, I shaII never be abIe

to answer aII these, Aunt DoIIy.

Of course not, dear.

You'II have to put an acknowIedgement

in the personaI coIumn of the "Times"

Good Lord, Spencer,

what have you got there this time?

Another present for you,

Master StanIey, just arrived.

Don't bring any more of them in here,

Spencer.

- There reaIIy isn't room.

- Very weII.

And teII Truscott to take aII the flowers

to the hospitaI in the morning.

Very weII, ma'am.

"With gratitude for your fight

against the rising cost of Iiving,

"this gift comes to you

from five CheItenham Iadies

"Iiving on fixed incomes."

How very kind, StanIey.

JoIIy kind indeed, Aunt.

Just Iisten to aII that cheer!

How Iong have they been there,

Aunt DoIIy?

Hours, dear.

What a nation we British are

once we're stirred.

...who are born of thee

Wider stiII and wider...

And the chiIdren of BabyIon

are destroyed

and become an abomination

in the eyes of Iasciviousness.

Three cheers for Mr ChurchiII

and StanIey Windrush.

Hip hip hurray!

We want StanIey!

What can you do with women?

Thank you.

Say, you do appreciate my position,

don't you?

I mean, you do appreciate it?

Yes, I appreciate to a degree,

but why have the stinker here

in the first pIace?

WeII...

There you are.

Not exactIy invisibIe mending,

but it wiII keep the draught out.

Takes you time to find out

who your friends are, don't it?

Of course I've been betrayed.

We've aII been betrayed, oId chap.

Do you think she'II come back?

Mine didn't. Thank God!

I don't know! I don't know!

I mean, I've aIways given her

the best I couId provide.

She's aIways fit and weII.

I mean, it ain't

as if she was overworked.

You see, I...

'Ere! That's it!

That's it. Overworked.

- Yeah?

- Yes.

III heaIth brought on by overwork.

I thought you said

she was in tip-top condition.

No, not her, Windrush.

That is how we get rid of him.

He resigns on account of iII heaIth

brought on by overwork.

Kite, that's absoIuteIy bang on.

III heaIth brought on

by trying to work the new scheduIes.

Yes!

The best of British Iuck.

Do you think

he can he be made to do it?

You trust his UncIe Bertie.

He'II do as he's toId.

But I'm perfectIy fit, UncIe.

Yes, yes, I know you're perfectIy fit.

This is just a formuIa, used every day.

Army poIitics... whatever you Iike.

I do wish you'd stop worrying

about me, UncIe.

Resignation wouId be

far too easy a way out.

What you've done

has been wonderfuI,

and there's no question

of my Ietting you down now.

That's very nice of you, StanIey.

I appreciate it, but...

No, no, UncIe.

I wouIdn't dream of it.

You've aIready sacrificed that contract.

I'm not gonna have you

sacrifice your principIes as weII.

Don't be such a damned fooI, StanIey.

To heII with my principIes!

The two heroes of the hour.

They're stiII caIIing for you, StanIey.

You simpIy must show yourseIf.

- ReaIIy, Aunt DoIIy, must I?

- Indeed, you must!

And you too, Bertie.

Come aIong.

Quiet, feIIers, quiet!

Tonight at eight-thirty,

we are presenting once again

our popuIar discussion programme

"Argument".

and the subject this evening

is the present industriaI strike.

The producers have arranged

for some of the Ieading personaIities

connected with the strike

to appear in the programme.

So you wiII hear a spokesman

for the management,

for the shop stewards,

and of course Mr StanIey Windrush

who was the cause of the strike.

The chairman

wiII be MaIcoIm Muggeridge,

so don't forget to Iook in at eight-thirty.

If you'd Iike to put your things in here,

then come down to the make-up room.

It's just down the corridor.

The others are aIready there.

Thank you very much.

That's right, Stan.

- It's yours.

- Coxie...

What on earth are you doing here?

That's your cut.

A IittIe idea of mine.

My cut?

WeII, you didn't think we was

going to Ieave you out, did you?

OnIy of course, you've got to do

what your uncIe says.

What on earth are you taIking about?

Resign, on grounds of iII heaIth.

Now, I've aIready had aII this out

with UncIe.

Now, Iook at me, oId Stan.

This is a bit deIicate.

I daresay your UncIe Bertie

wouIdn't Iike me teIIing you aII this,

but if you don't resign,

the strike goes on.

And we aII Iose

a hundred thousand smackers!

Who's "we"?

WeII, there's me, your UncIe Bertie

and that bIack feIIow Mohammed.

This is absoIute nonsense.

UncIe's firm's aIready Iost the contract.

WeII, yes, in a way.

To me... Union Jack Foundries.

You see what it is.

It's business.

High finance and that...

Are you suggesting UncIe Bertram

stirred up aII this troubIe deIiberateIy?

That's right.

With your heIp, don't forget.

OnIy, it's got to stop now,

or it's no good.

I'm going crazy!

I'd have thought

if you wanted to stop the strike,

you wouId have been taIking to Mr Kite.

We have, Stan.

Very amicabIe, too.

It was him who suggested

the iII-heaIth Iark.

- There you are, Mr Kite.

- Thank you, Miss.

Ask the girI to go and see

what's happened to Mr Windrush.

I know you won't say nothing,

because if you do, your UncIe Bertie

wiII go inside for a few years.

KiII your Aunt DoIIy, that wouId.

Anyway, I prefer to be honest,

put my cards on the tabIe.

Quite a change for you.

Yes, weII, you take my advice, Stan.

When it's your turn on the oId teIIy,

get up quietIy and teII them

you want to resign.

Right?

Ta-ta!

Make-up's waiting for you,

Mr Windrush.

Mr Windrush!

They're waiting for you.

Yes, of course!

'On the air in five seconds.

'Quiet, everybody!

'Four... three... two... one.'

"Argument". The programme

that puts you in the picture.

Good evening.

The subject on everyone's mind today

is unquestionabIy the strike.

'Now, some peopIe think

that the nationaI economy

'is being endangered

by the irresponsibIe...'

'Ere! Turn it up, wiII you?

Other peopIe take the view

that the Iiving standards of the workers

have been viciousIy attacked

by the empIoyers,

who in any case

are in breach of contract.

We've got in the studio

four peopIe intimateIy concerned

in the deveIopment

of this unhappy situation.

On my right is His ExceIIency,

Mr Mohammed.

And next to him, Mr TracepurceI.

Then, on my Ieft, Mr Kite.

And next to him, Mr Windrush.

Before turning these gentIemen over

to the studio audience for questioning,

I'm going to ask each of them

to make a brief individuaI statement.

And I'm going to begin with Mr Kite.

Now, Mr Kite, as Chairman

of the works committee at MissiIes,

where do you stand?

Um... oh, yes.

Um, the situation

is quite straightforward.

As trades unionists,

we have aIways been concerned with...

for efficiency

and for the individuaI worker.

And it is...

It is for that reason

that we oppose the attempt

of the management

to overwork the man on the job.

Hear, hear!

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