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the steam train passing, they would
come out to the back of the house
that were going up to the colliery
because with that knowledge
they would know then
whether they had work for a day or two
or for the week.
They used to call it the umbrella pit
because it was
constantly opening and closing.
My father took me
down to see the dole queue in Liverpool
and then he walked me
the full length of it.
Then he walked me back
so I could see all their faces.
And he said, "Now, remember that."
"Remember that and don't let it happen
in your day."
And I was ten.
We went to all the meetings
in those days.
They were mostly out in parks
or street corners.
And I got quite used to it,
so I was really pretty well educated
as regards politics.
What really matters
is who controls industry
and the result of industry.
Hear, hear.
This rubbish about
the banking system is the greatest.
Hear, hear.
You don't make money,
you don't make wealth
by passing bits of paper to one another.
Close up the ranks. Fall in.
Join the great army
of the children of the night
marching to the conquest of the future.
Marching to build Jerusalem
in England's green and pleasant land.
(CROWD CHEERS)
I was 25 years of age...
...when I read my first book,
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
It just completely changed my life.
I couldn't sleep after reading
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
I just thought, what fools everyone are.
How we've all been taken in
and we're still being taken in.
We're just sucked into a false life
of what it's all about.
When we were living in the slums
we were the greatest empire
in the world.
We had India, Africa, Canada, Australia.
The greatest empire in the world.
We were living
My dad used to take
an orange box round to the docks
and urge the dockers
to join a union, to band together
with all the other...
"You'll never get anywhere
if you don't."
"You've got to be solid." You know.
I was quite proud to go with him.
I could hear the men saying,
"It's Johnny and the kid."
So I was quite proud
to be the kid with Johnny.
Well, I've been thinking
about the gaps between the houses.
What comes down
has to go up again, you know.
Not like it used to be, I hope.
Not with all those slums and tenements.
That's just the point.
We've got to see
that the job's done decently this time.
Ya, but how? Do you think
Well, why not?
If we can work together now
to look after the lives
of the people here,
I don't see why we couldn't work
together afterwards to clear up the mess
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