MAY DAY 82 FESTIVAL ------------------- Events in Reading on Saturday 1 May organized by Reading Trades Union Council March & Rally ------------- Bring you banners! Assemble at noon outside Old Shire Hall to march round town to the Forbury Gardens At 12.50pm there will be speakers on the themes of unemployment and ant-TU laws May Day Fair ------------ Doors of the Old Town Hall open at 1.30pm Stalls, entertainment and debate around the theme 'Our Future' Creche facilities, food, tea ... Entertainment ------------- From 7.30pm until midnight - bands, theatre and a full-length feature film (watch local press for details) - - - This is R E D R A G, Reading's only newspaper. It is dated 4 April 1982 and covers both the past and the future - until about 20 April. Inside this issue are a N E W S D I G E S T, plus an E V E N T S L I S T I N G covering meetings, talks, etc on everything from compost to communism, and a look at entertainment which we call the G 0 I N G 0 U T G U ID E. As if that weren't enough there is also a P L A T F O R M for sometimes inflammatory opinions about local and not-so-local matters. There are two articles in this issue of some length; the first looks sceptically at the Social Democratic Party, the second critically at the women's organisations locally. The next issue will contain whatever you write and send to us. GETTING IN TOUCH WITH RED RAG NEWS:READING 666681 662302 861841 INFO FOR EVENTS: READING 666681 83275 INFO FOR GOING OUT:RDG 662740 DISTRIBUTlON:RDG 61257 666681 OR WRITE C/O 31B MILMAN ROAD OR ACORN BOOKSHOP. DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE THURSDAY 15 APRIL FOR EVENTS TO 3 MAY - - - NEWS-DIGEST TO CONTACT US WITH NEWS ITEMS, CALL READING 666681 OR 861841 ' PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRY 'Crime rate up but Police solve more'. That was the headline of an article in the Evening Post of Monday 22 March. The article told us: 'Crime in the Thames Valley rose by nearly 10 per cent last year according to figures...' Then, the percentage increases in theft, burglary, and juvenile crime were given. Then the article told us that the Police bad solved 40.71 per cent of crimes recorded, 'an additional 3635 crimes resolved as compared to the previous year.' My suspicious mind immediately wanted to know why, amid all those percentages, the increase in crimes solved was given as an ordinary number. Perhaps, I mused, there was a fall in the percentage of crimes solved. So, out with the calculator and in half an hour I had proved my suspicions unfounded. Our Police force has indeed improved its performance. Here is your complete Red Rag presentation of the data. 1980 1981 increase crimes recorded 71,077 77,371 6654 (9.36%) crimes solved 25,757 31,392 3635 (13.1%) crimes solved 39.05 40.38 1.33 as % of crimes recorded It is not a productivity record which BL would be proud of (where output per person has increased at Longbridge by 100%). Perhaps the answer is to put the police onto output-related bonus schemes. UNEMPLOYMENT CENTRE The government has turned down the application from Berkshire County Council for an Urban Aid grant to cover the cost of an extra four staff for the Unemployment Centre in East street. The Centre had hoped for £60,000, which would have, apart from paying for wages, allowed the centre to pay some of its running costs and to give some help to unemployed people in Newbury and at the new centre in Bracknell. In prioritising its requests for aid, the County made Reading Number One. Numbers two and three on the list were given money - Reading was not. In addition, it appears that the Manpower Services Commission, which funds the existing staff at the Centre, has decided that there is nothing in the kitty for extra staff. Apart from scotching any hope of MSC money to replace the missing Urban Aid grant, this must place a question mark over hopes of continuing the current MSC grant when it expires next year. The move may be connected with government criticism of MSC for its liberal tendencies - the Cabinet wants to use MSC schemes as a way of both taking people off the unemployment register at low cost (and thus easing criticism of high unemployment), and of forcing down wages by diluting skilled labour forces with young, poorly-paid people. The MSC is still trying to work towards some real 'training' element in its schemes, and it may be that unemployment centres are something which it feels it can publicly ditch to show it's on the right side, while continuing to fight for what it sees as the important issues. Meanwhile, the Centre is starting to work. At the same time, Reading has now received its quota of social security snoopers, charged with reducing the cost of SS. While these people do actually catch a tiny number of folk who are exploiting benefit, experience in other parts of the country shows that their main job is to harass people who don't know their rights, with vague threats of 'you are in very serious trouble' over minor irregularities. Our advice: first, have a friend with you if they see you; second, don't believe a word they say without damned good proof; third, say as little as possible and don't make 'deals'. EDUCATING OURSELVES The Trades Council is to look at providing courses and seminars in Reading on workers' issues. The WEA should be doing this, but is dead or dying locally. - - - REVIEW The middle of what? The Social Democratic Party in Bracknell and Reading A GENERAL MODERATING CONSENSUS Those of you who think that the Social Democratic Party is bereft of principles and that it consists of nothing more than a mish-mash of ex-Labour supporters (frightened of their old party's drift towards socialist policies) together with previously uncommitted political virgins (attracted by a movement which keeps politics out of politics) will be reassured to learn that the Bracknell SDP conforms to this stereotype. 'Our aim is for a general, moderating consensus', the chairman of Bracknell SDP, Keith Hoskins, told Red Rag - apparently oblivious to the fact that those who choose to stand in the middle of the road stand a good chance of getting knocked down. The Bracknell SDP was born in the heady days of last summer, following close on the heels of a visit by David Owen. At that time, of course, the SDP was being portrayed as the new party of the Left - the modern radical party which was not subservient to the trade unions. Or at least that is what Owen would have liked. But under the steadying influence of Belgian Commissar Roy Jenkins, the party has crawled to what is seen as the safe, vote-catching ground in the centre - somewhat to the left of Selsdon but decidedly right of Bishops Stortford. Pragmatism, expediency, and consensus are the key words. Hoskins agrees that the 'original SDP' was 'fairly radical - slightly left of centre'. But he says now that the SDP's position is 'immaterial' and that it will tackle issues as they occur. Hoskins was appointed Bracknell Chairman by the Berkshire Steering Committee untii the local AGM later this month. He estimates that the total membership in the Bracknell area is around 300, 60% of whom were hitherto inactive in politics, the rest split fairly evenly between the other three major parties including the Liberals! Indeed, Hoskins himself left the Liberal Party to join the SDP 'because I felt the SDP is the main vehicle which could help us to get rid of the stupid electoral system'. Hoskins agrees wholeheartedly that the local party is unable to obtain the consensus it seeks among the British public and that it is split on many major issues. 'Some members are unilateralists, some aren't; some are pro-devolution, some aren't; some want to abolish private schools, others don't.' The SDP's major coup in Bracknell has been the defection of nine councillors last autumn, all from the Labour Party. As in the rest of the country, these councillors have refused to stand again on SDP tickets. Hoskins himself is disdainful of the very question. 'If they stood again, they'd only win', he says. Six of the nine defectors sit on Bracknell District Council and they have been joined by one SDP/Lib Alliance member who was returned in a by-election last year. On the Town Council, the defection of three Labour members has cut the Labour majority to one. Some half dozen of the SDP councillors come from the same branch of the Labour Party - Bracknell North West, one of the older areas of the town. Labour activists claim that the defectors, all from the right wing of the Party, are examples of the 'non-political' councillor, ambitious only for personal prestige. At odds with the moves in the Party towards greater democracy, they are said to have done little active work in the constituencies. On the Town Council, the defectors either vote with the Labour members or abstain; on the District Council, where they include a former chairman of the Council and a former leader of the Labour group, they pay 'little attention' to the debates. Estimates of exactly how many Labour Party members have left to join the SDP are not helped by the notoriously inaccurate Party records, though one guess puts the figure at as low as 20. This includes the councillors who were attending SDP meetings before they left the Labour Party. The Bracknell area, with its high proportion of middle-class professionals and commuters, is an obvious target for the SDP/Lib Alliance, though no decision has yet been taken as to which party will fight the seat in the next election. Boundary changes will lop off parts of Wokingham and Finchampstead, and bring in Ascot, Sunninghill and parts of old Windsor. The political nature of the electorate, therefore, will remain broadly Conservative. In Bracknell itself, the recent County Council elections saw the return of all four Labour candidates for the first time; but in the last General Election, the Party was pushed into third place by the Liberals. The SDP, therefore, might find that this is one seat it won't be fighting. Mark Irving - - - MONETARISM OR MARXISM - OR THE PIZZAS IN BETWEEN? Last autumn, when Weekend World wanted to profile a typical SDP group, they asked Opinion Research Ltd to conduct a poll on the All Berkshire Party. A total of 620 Social Democrats returned their questionnaires which, as well as the predictable sections pinpointing socio-economic groups (go on, guess!) had opinion-testers on a wide variety of issues from 'Which coalition partner would you prefer for the SDP?' (46% said Labour, 43% Conservative) to 'Should the closed shop be outlawed?' (68% yes, 30% no). Rather surprisingly, on nationalization the majority was in favour of leaving things as they are. Pradeep Mohile, chairman of West Reading Party, confessed that, before the formation of the new party, he might have joined any one of the three old established political organizations. So why did he choose the way he did? 'Because I agreed with each and every part of the twelve-point plan.' He was insistent, however, that all views he expressed were his personal opinion, by no means held by a majority of members in Reading or elsewhere. 'We are a party of centrists', he said several times, 'and our views range over a wide area. Party policy will be decided on each issue as it arises.' The Berkshire Area Party was originally formed to cover the seven county constituencies. As this area was large and unwieldy to administer, it was decided to divide it from January of this year into East and West Berks. The latter covers Newbury, and East and West Reading, thus anticipating the boundary Commission recommendations to alter the Reading constituencies from North and South. (Although these changes were called for by the Conservatives, they are no longer in their favour with the rise of a third major contender for seats in parliament', said Mohile.) West Reading SDP how has over 150 members, having doubled its numbers since the first public meeting in May 1981 which Dick Taverne addressed. Subs, at £11 a year, go direct to national party office, though £3 will eventually be returned to the Area party 'but accounting is very slow'. How, then, does the local party fund its canvassing and recruitment? 'Individual members contribute a lot out of their own pockets. And we hold fundraising events.' 'Jumble sales?' 'Eventually, yes. But at present social evenings, pizza parties, and so on.' It would be interesting to know many of the present subscribers renewed membership, but all the figures relating to numbers of people involved seem to be locked into the Midland Bank's computer, awaiting release. The plans for the next general election have yet to be decided with the local Liberal party, but will certainly be based on the proposed boundary changes. Having fought a local bye-election in only one ward, Abbey, which Labour held, what structure will they adopt for the Reading Borough Council elections in 1983? 'We shall, of course, have to develop ward parties. But you must remember how young our party is.' (Though only in historical terms: a mere 10% of the polled membership is under 24.) West Reading's growth target is 15 members a month, which they hope to achieve through more social events, plus public meetings, canvassing and leafleting. One of their handbills claims that the old parties have failed Britain: 'They destroy... by promoting class and industrial conflict... Monetarism or Marxism - who wants either?' Opinion Research Ltd's poll ,revealed that, of the Berkshire Social Democrats who answered the questionnaire, 7% each came from the Tory and Liberal parties, 13% from Labour, and 68% had not been 'previously attached'. It looks as if some floating politicals may at last have found a place to drop anchor. Or maybe they've just run aground. Gill Learner - - - DRAMA scene 1 an office in buenos airies JUNTA: the people are revolting! give them something else to think about. ARGENTINE SAILOR: aye aye aye. que? JUNTA: invade the falklands! scene 2 an office in whitehall CARRINGTON: i hear the argentinians are going to invade the falklands. NOTT: where? CARRINGTON: you send a gunboat! i'll go to the U.N. NOTT: i resign. THATCHER/CARRINGTON: you can't. scene 3 the house of commons CARRINGTON: the argentinians have not invaded the falklands. scene 4 an office in whitehall CARRINGTON: the argentinians have invaded the falklands, is the gunboat there yet? NOTT: i don't know, i resign. THATCHER/CARRINGTON: you can't. send another gunboat. scene 5 the falkland islands 18000 PEOPLE: our police are wonderful, but there's never one around, when you REALLY need one. scene 6 an office in whitehall CARRINGTON: well, they ignore the U.N., they ignore gunboats - we'll have to use the ultimate sanction NOTT: you don't mean.........? CARRINGTON: yes! we'll get the F.A. to suspend ARDILES! - - - PLATFORM THE WOMENS CENTRE - A MARVELOUS FACILITY FOR SOME. The other day. I bought a newsletter from the Reading Womens Centre. I had for ages thought that I should know more about it than I did and read the newsletter from cover to cover. There was a good straightforward description of the setting up of the Womens centre, and its subsequent development, it is planned to chronicle the groups history (Sorry herstory(sic)) There were a lot of poems {Perhaps the group had held a poetry workshop?), plus pieces on childsharing, the womens peace camp, and the womens information service. The subject matter of the poems was varied, a love poem to a child like man, a woman describing herself as an overworked undercared for dishrag, a woman symbolised by a delicate white virginal snowdrop about to be trampled on by a big black boot (racial fantasy?), a poem on womens unity called Womb-one-ness, a poem about a woman longing to escape from her cocoon as a dull little moth that would escape the attentions of wicked predators (men). Now for the comment, firstly buy the newsletter and read it for yourself, it is after all only l0p for as many pages as Red Rag, secondly it says a lot about the wo mens centre. But there are comments which should be made as some of the articles are misleading if taken at face-value. The poems at first glimpse are very sad - what desperate straits these women must have passed through!... then I read the names of some of the authors, I was puzzled, I showed a couple of friends who were equally surprised. To find that a forceful woman we know who rides about town on a motorbike, who did further education with two children at home, who stood up and acted with enthusiasm and humour to raise funds for the anti-nuclear campaign, to find that this human dynamo sees herself as a washed out dishrag due for the great dustbin in the sky was a disappointment to say the least. This may seem harsh but I think there would be more meat and interest in the positive aspects of her life than in her outpourings of self pity. Everyone is prone to self pity,and this should be recognised and not repressed, but neither should it be glorified or prolonged. The metaphor of women as virginal vulnerable snowdrops really got me. Even in my moments of deepest depression I never felt remotely like a snowdrop. Look if you are a feminist, why portray women as something so weak and defenceless? If your upbringing didn't teach you better, then awareness of feminism should have done. Women are strong and capable, I know of few who are totally unable to strike back against the big black boots of life. On a more positive note was a poem by C.S. on the growth of sisterhood, it was entitled Womb-one-ness the meaning of which escapes me. It makes much of the wombs and moonbeams which draw women together; mooncycles, wombworship, and paintings of period blood are fearfully trendy at the moment and have the unfortunate effect of turning many sensible women right off and convincing them that feminist artists and poets are a bunch of loonies. P.H's poem on women and power had something to say. What would happen if women stopped holding up their half of the sky? There was an article on the childcare group ... 'anyone who has looked after young children will appreciate the need to hand them over to someone else and get away for a while'. I agree, how sensible to use the facilities in this way. I'm surprised the centre isn't overrun with parents wanting to join in, but apparently only four mother use the group, and one of these has left. I suggested to a friend who is stuck at home with a baby and no transport that he join the group. He told me that he can't join because he is a man. It seems that willy-one-ness doesn't get him into the club. One begins to wonder how the womb-one-ness set got into the position to need child-sharing facilities in the first place! Are baby men allowed in and if so are they treated the same way as babywomen. If the children see only women undertaking child care won't they grow up just as sexist as our own generation? Or is this the idea? A man who stays at home and looks after the kids is more isolated than a woman in the same position - he needs the help and encouragement that a child share group could give. Nowadays there are many men who are sympathetic to feminism. They tend to say the right things and are eager to assist in campaigns, they accept feminist criticisms. They tend to associate with women of feminist principles and thus become a convenient target for women striking back against sexism. The ban on men, in the Womens's Centre is only likely to affect those who want to help. It will have no effect on the misogynists and chauvinists of this world. It's true that the most sympathetic men harbours sexists attitudes, but women aren't perfect simply by virtue of their sex. The important thing is a desire for change - for ourselves as far as possible: and our offspring. Rumour has it that a pregnant woman visiting the Womens's Centre was asked in a concerned tone 'What will you do if it's a boy? I wonder what the answer would have been if the mother-to-be had replied 'Spit roast it'? Nowadays a feminist with a male child is regarded as having a problem. (see volumes of correspondence on the subject in Spare Rib). I can't agree because how can anyone hope to improve the future without trying to improve men? And what better way to improve the next bunch than to let them see men as equal partners in child care, finance housework etc? I have heard my aunt thank my grandmother for the enlightened way in which she brought up my uncle. Micheline Wander writes positively of life with her two sons in "Why children?" (Women's Press). Policy and views in the women's movement change regularly, many shades of opinion exist. Women's groups are often criticized for being mainly composed of white middle-class, educated and privileged women. What alarms me about the practice and policy current at the Women's Centre is the level of dissent from white, privileged etc etc women, who find the anti-men policy unnecessary, and who are put off by the negative feelings aired at the Centre? Does it have to involve banning and disliking men? Does the Women's Centre want a popular base, or is it to become an exclusive club? Answers, please, to Red Rag. A. J. Warner - - - FOOD FOR RAG READERS Eating food is an activity we all indulge in on a more or less regular basis in this country. In a way that should make us all experts, though I think there is a distinct lack of confidence on the subject, in younger people. Anyway it has been decided to do some stuff on grub in the Rag. Stand by to have your political awareness of curried lentils enhanced. Reading is actually a very good place to live food wise; it might not have a proper tripe dressers and the supermarkets are the same as anywhere else, but scattered about, underneath the fairisle brick and the concrete facades are some pretty brilliant specialist food shops. To start with there are the old-fashioned marker town shops fancy photographers take pictures of fish-mongers displays in Whitechapel and claim to have found the last shop that practices this ancient art, but look in smelly alley any day of the week and you will see a magnificent abstract of prawns, plaice, yellow smoked fish, and bunches of parsley stretched across the top marble slab. The top shop has a display which is just as interesting because bits of it move. This is also the place to buy exotic fish, red snappers for carribean dishes, red mullet and swordfish for mediterranean food, huge hideous freshwater carp for eastern european festivals, salmon and lobster for the rich, and winkles and coley fillets for the poor. Sometimes they have a basin of wriggling eels sometimes a giant conger eel stretches right across the counter! The game butchers on West St. must be well known to those with a weak stomach, here you can buy a haunch of venison, the only honest sausages in town, the best tasting duck, you're likely to find this side of Peking, or a scraggy old chicken to make really tasty soup from. Not only does this shop sell what could be described as gourmet foods (snipe, grouse, pheasant and veal), it also has the full range of cheaper cuts and offal which form the basis of ordinary English cooking. If you want to make your own faggots or sausages or pate, this is where to buy lacy caul fat used to cover pate and to wrap faggots, and thin intestine into which to stuff your sausages. I heard this particular shop described as a vegetarians nightmare by a man queuing with a friend, fair comment but if one is going to eat meat there's no point pretending it always comes clean and bloodless in white polystyrene trays. Vegetable delicacies will be dealt with next issue. Grub Lust xxx - - - RED RAG EVENTS Mon 5 April Anarchists Discussion meeting ring James 473205 Trade Union & Labour Working Group meeting will be at 56 Hamilton Road, Reading. 8pm. Wed 7 April Friends of the Earth The future of agriculture Matthew Jones of Reading University with his view of developments likely to affect land use policy, including fuel product on farms (energy crops), dietary changes and the prospects for self sufficiency. The Crown, Crown Street, 8pm. Socialist Workers Party Talk 'Introduction to Marxist Theory' supporters welcome, Red Lion, Southampton St 8pm. Thu 8 April MAY DAY DAY DAY MAY DAY Meeting to finalise details, anyone with anything to say, to come along, 181 Shinfield Road, 8pm. Sat 10 April B.A.N.C. Easter Peace March from RAF Strike Command (Walters Ash) to USAF Base - Daws Hill (High Wycombe) assemble 12 noon. Buses leave Reading station 11.00 & Cemetery Junction 11.15 Tickets from Acorn 1.75, 1.25 U/W. Womens Centre Open collective meeting, any women who are interested in helping to run the Womens Centre, come along, or ring Carol on 662285 for details. C.N.D. Meeting at Greenham Common, Youth CND members from Southampton, Winchester and Andover are marching to the Base at Greenham, over the Easter weekend, will arrive about 5pm. Details from Dave Ingledew 416536. all welcome. Tue 13 April B.A.N.C. General Meeting on NATO'S 1979 Decision and all recent developments, CND Vice-Pres. John Cox (Author of Overkill) speaking on Cruise. Friends Meeting House, 8pm. Wed 14 April B.A.N.C. East Reading neighbourhood Meeting, at St Barts. Church Hall, London Road, 8pm. (Meet 2nd Wed every month) Socialist Workers Party Talk on 'Politics of 3rd World Development', Supporters welcome, Red Lion, Southampton Street, 8pm. Thu 15 April NETBALL Non-Sexist Non-Elitist Netball at Alfred Suttons Girls School, Green Road, 7.30pm. Mon 19 April ANARCHISIMUS Groupisimus ring Jamesismus on 473205, for all detailismus. I'm going GA-GA, who wants to take over this Events Page, and influence the whole of Reading Politically, being unable to spell is an assett. Volunteers to contact Mike on 83275, it takes 1 Friday evening per month. LATE EXTRA: Sat 17 April Trades Council A day school is being held on the 'Tebbit Bill' at the AUEW Hall, Oxford Road, 10 - 4pm. - - - GOING OUT GUIDE Monday 5 April. Kids' Stuff: Easter cards and collages, Early Learning Centre, King's Road. Until the 8th. 10 am to 12 noon. Moscow Balalaika Orchestra: Russian Folk Music and Dance. Hexagon 7.30 2 up. Tuesday 6 April. Gay Disco, Tudor Arms, Greyfriars Road. 8pm to 10.30. English Folk Music, Dance, Theatre extravaganza, whole range of trad English folk entertainment. Hexagon 7.30 £2.50 up. Wednesday 7 April. Lunchtime Organ Recital: by Christopher Hood, Town Hall. l.10pm free. Jazz in aid of Peace Week, the Griffin, Caversham, 8pm tickets from BANC. Orchestra of St Johns's Square, program of work by Schubert and Ravel, Hexagon 7.30. £2.50 up. Thursday 8 April. Folk: Suzy Adams plus Helen Watson Cap and Gown 8 to 10.30 50p ish. Film: The Harder They Come. Good Reggae movie starring Jimmy Cliff. Central Club 7.30 £1. Trad Jazz: Tudor Tavern. maybe. Friday 9 April. Gay Disco, Tudor Arms, Greyfriars Road. 8pm to 12. free. Saturday l0th April. Eric Sykes looks back at his career with BBC archive video, Hexagon 7.30 £2.50 Sunday 11 April. Lunchtime Rock Flexamuscle at 5's bar, the Mall, 12 to 2. free. Reggae. The Mighty Diamonds, at Central Club see posters for details. Tuesday 13 April. Kid's Stuff: Spring Flowers with Painting competition, Early Learning Centre, Kings Rd, 10 to noon. Spreadthick and friends, playing a mixture of folk, bluegrass, jazz and Ragtime. bar ext. Cap + Gown 8.15. £1.75. Gay Disco at tudor arms. Mike Berry plus other sixties popsters doing nostalgia thang. Wednesday 14 April. Reading Festival Chorus plus Various notables performing stuff by Haydn and Lennox Berkely. Hexagon 7.30. £2.50 up. Thursday 15 April. Film: Smile Orange and Riots and Rumours of Riots, Central Club, Adults £1 Schoolkids 50p, door 7.30. Folk: Peter Bellamy at the Cap and Gown. 8 to 10.30. 50p ish. Rock and Roll: Florida rock band. called Blackfoot. Hexagon 7.30 £3.25. up. Friday 16 April. Gay Disco at the tudorarms. Folk: The Corries, trad and contemp Scottish Folk. Hexagon 7.30. £2 up. Saturday 17 April. Lunchtime Rock with Nightrider. Hexagon 12.15 to 2.30 free. Lunchtime Rock with 'Nightrider' Hexagon, this is a typing error this is a typ in errror this iss atyping Stamp and coin fair org. by Oxfam, United reformed Church Broad St 10.30 - 4.30 Reading Youth Orchestra. stuff by Debbussy and Stravinsky. Hex. 7.30 £2up Sunday 18th April. Lunchtime Blues, Varooka Brothers at Fives bar 12-2pm Free Film the Forbidden Planet, cult sci fi movie READING CINEMA CLUB, Shinfield Theatre Gladys Knight and the Pips, Hexagon 6.15 and. 9.00pm £3.50-8.50 Monday 19th April. The Cure, Did a brilliant show last year. Hex. 7.30 £3.50&£3.00 Tues 20th April. Gay Disco at the Tudor Arms. Greyfriars Rd NOTE: This compiler is suffering from writters cramp, and overwork. New compiler required. It takes about 2hrs week, and could be shared. Gain kudos and journalistic experience. Phone John on R.662740 ALSO NOTE: I am running the creche for Mayday and need such things as glue, coloured paper, old magazines, old make-up, face-paints, toys etc. as before phone John 662740. - - - HARE TODAY GONE TOMORROW Reading and Maidenhead Hunt Saboteurs ASS., went out on 20th of March. They managed to split the beagle pack and made enough noise to confuse the hounds for the best part of the afternoon. No hares were caught and the local hunt gave up acknowledging defeat. The local groups (saboteurs) meet once a week at the Bell in Maidenhead on Tuesdays 8.30pm and new members are welcome. Tel Dave on Reading 583306 for details. FORGET CYNICISM HERE COMES PEACE WEEK 4th-l0th April. A chance to Think £!bout peace (peace .....mmmmmm) and try and remind a few people about it for a week or so, with a series of educational and fun (fun ......mmmmmm) happenings. So the events..... Monday ; A showing of 2 films concerned with the nuclear issue: The War Game (banned by the beeb some 15 years ago) A film concerned with the more likely possibility of what could happen with the advent of Cruise/Trident Missiles on your doorstep. Also the CND film about last Octobers Peace March in London entitled Together we can stop the bomb. This is being shown free at the scout hut, Little Heath Rd, Tilehurst, at 8.30pm Tues ; Same as the above, but for youth by youth CND, somewhere, keep your eyes open! The rest is up to you! Thurs a Peace Party (DISCO + BAND THE ENCODERS) £1 from Acorn £0.50 STUDENTS and unwaged. Friday Youth cnd walk for peace from Southampton - Greenham (via Winchester / Andover). BANC(East Reading Group) Radioactive Reading a talk by Charles Suttcliffe Berkshire County Councillor, St Bartholomews Church Hall, London Rd Thursday April 15th 8pm. - - - $Id: //info.ravenbrook.com/user/ndl/readings-only-newspaper/issue/1982/1982-04-04.txt#4 $