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Foreign Investors Grow Righ While Trish Worker

In Unfree Citizen: Vol. 4 no. 2, 14 October 1974 · scan page 6 · about 418 words

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guaranteed.

a dying trade torture. One of the more recent.

experts. . interview. Workers at the Danus factory in Limerick sitting-in. They are refusing to leave unless they get a better redundancy pay offer, and.meanwhile are holding £200,000 worth of clothes as hostage against the employers threatening the take over of the factory by yet another foreign company, Vulco, German curtain manufacturerers who will employ a staggering 50 workers, 36 of them female! The workers at Genesco’s factory realise that they can run the factory successfully and have drawn up efficiency plans to prove this. Meanwhile the embargo stays until a better deal from Geneso is There are 157 American companies operating in Ireland, producing goods mainly for foreign markets and the rate of Companies from all foreign countries opening in Ireland is a staggering 2 per week!

Only when the workers of Ireland unite and topple capitalism will they be able to plan their own future, reap the benefits of their own country and rid themselves of faceless foreign shareholders, who at the moment, with the blessing of the Republic and men like Fitzgerald, are robbing them of years of their lives and the wealth of their country.

In the past five years Northern Ireland has become the testing ground for a whole range of British Army anti-personnel weapons _ from CS gas to machinery for sophisticated mistakes! applications of ‘science’ in the 6 Cos. is the use of psychiatry and of psychological techniques in the selection of bomb-disposal Anyone contemplating the career has now to go through a series of tests that even a real guinea pig would fail — any signs of humanity means that the recruit is either rejected or sent for even deeper With the continuing bomb attacks on pioperty in the North, and with the decline in bomb disposaj experts (three at least have retired to the Minister of Defence psychiatric hospital near Southampton) recruitment of younger and younger men has become necessary for the Brits.

Selection tests include the ability to carry out delicate operations with the fingers without rushing, shaking or making Most emphasis is however given to three personality tests ‘Clinical Analysis’ is one of these and involves answer 50 questions on sleeping habits, behaviour at school, attitudes to home and family and the like. Naturally there is also screening for suicidal tendencies!

So strict are these tests in search of human robots that one third of a recent batch of hand-picked recruits were rejected after the first tests.

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