In a thick carpeted office in fashionable Hampstead sits Derek H. Clark, ex-paratrooper, freemason and publisher.
Clark's businesses go under a variety of names but in the main he produces children's educational material and F.4, News the official mouthpiece of the Football Association. Orat least he did at one time, because for the past eleven weeks Clark's journalists have been on official strike over their boss's pettiness, patermalism and meanness.
The staff object to receiving E600 less than what is normal for their type of work; they object to no sick pay entitlement, they object to receiving no notice when Clark indulges in his regular pastime of sacking people; and they object to having to supply their own typewnters. When these complaints were first voiced, Clark's response was to fire the shop steward and to refuse to talk to the union involved National Union of Journalists. Thus began the strike, and although Clark eventually agreed to talks his words continue to echo his nineteenth century view of reality, when coffee breaks wete banned and women workers were expec ted to perform out of office activities for the are gilless: at one point he accused his worken DUAL HIP KONAL UNICI OF JOURNALISTS SIONAL UN OR VE CHLAL SIRIKE ENDORS OF VISHLARS SINS