First broadcast 28th January 1977.
A hard-nosed factory owner called Colfax refuses to allow his workers to join a union.
James Bolam ... Jack Ford
Susan Jameson ... Jessie Seaton
James Garbutt ... Bill Seaton
Jean Heywood ... Bella Seaton
Edward Wilson ... Billy Seaton
Malcolm Terris ... Matt Headley
Basil Henson ... Sir Horatio Manners
Isla Blair ... Lady Caroline
Rosalind Bailey ... Sarah Lytton
John Savident ... Colfax
John Bryans ... Boothroyd
Bobby Pattinson ... Eddy Morton
Geoffrey Toone ... Chief Constable
Richard Henry ... Man in Pub
Spike Rawlings ... Heckler
A hard-nosed factory owner called Colfax refuses to allow his workers to join a union.
James Bolam ... Jack Ford
Susan Jameson ... Jessie Seaton
James Garbutt ... Bill Seaton
Jean Heywood ... Bella Seaton
Edward Wilson ... Billy Seaton
Malcolm Terris ... Matt Headley
Basil Henson ... Sir Horatio Manners
Isla Blair ... Lady Caroline
Rosalind Bailey ... Sarah Lytton
John Savident ... Colfax
John Bryans ... Boothroyd
Bobby Pattinson ... Eddy Morton
Geoffrey Toone ... Chief Constable
Richard Henry ... Man in Pub
Spike Rawlings ... Heckler
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00:00Come hear me little Jacky, know I've smoked me pocky, have a bit of cracky till the boat
00:11comes in.
00:12Dance to the daddy, sing to the mummy, dance to the daddy, to the mummy, sing.
00:17Thou shalt have the fishy on a little dishy, thou shalt have the fishy when the boat comes
00:21in.
00:22Thou shalt have the fishy on a little dishy, thou shalt have the fishy when the boat comes
00:39in.
00:41Halt.
00:42Halt.
00:43Halt.
00:44Clerk Pidgeon's, you?
00:45Why not?
00:46All I give them is a bottle of beer and a few prizes.
00:55And what do they give you, these gamekeepers and bailiffs and farmers?
01:08Respect, Ford.
01:10Maybe even loyalty.
01:13That's a big return on a bottle of beer.
01:15It is.
01:16That's why I'm giving it.
01:21Lunch.
01:22Pull!
01:23Pull!
01:24Pull!
01:25Pull!
01:26Pull!
01:27Pull!
01:27Pull!
01:28Pull!
01:29Pull!
01:30Pull!
01:31Pull!
01:41We all help ourselves, you go and get something to eat.
01:53A cart to bring me here, and now all this.
01:58You almost won something pretty big this time.
02:00I do.
02:01Not that I mind a day out. Why come all the way here?
02:13Too many spies in me office Ford.
02:15And in mine?
02:17The only people that work in my office are Mutt Hedley and Miss Laidlaw.
02:21Miss Laidlaw's no Mutt of hurry and Mutt's my friend.
02:25He's also a devoted member of the Union.
02:28I see.
02:30Let's have it then.
02:32What I want is not for myself.
02:34Who's it for then?
02:36Koufax.
02:38That mad bugger. What are you helping him for?
02:40I want him to owe me a favor.
02:42That's why I've consented to act as messenger boy.
02:46The salmon is his by the way.
02:48It ought to choke us.
02:50But it won't.
02:52Let's have it then.
02:54Well Koufax owns the biggest non-union shop in these parts.
02:58You think I don't know that?
03:00Your head office is about to make another attempt
03:02to slap the Union on him.
03:04It's the first I've heard of it.
03:08There's a letter on its way to you now.
03:10Mutt Hedley isn't in it.
03:14Koufax wants to fight it.
03:16Likely.
03:18He wants to win.
03:20In fact he's asked me to make a bet with you Ford.
03:22A thousand pounds if you don't force the Union on him.
03:26A thousand pounds...
03:28if you fail.
03:32You see?
03:36Doesn't make sense.
03:38Doesn't it?
03:40No it doesn't.
03:42Koufax is an idealist.
03:44Get away!
03:46But he is.
03:48The last of the unregenerate capitalists.
03:50He believes in that.
03:52Believes in himself.
03:54Koufax, the hammer of the Unions.
04:00Not this time.
04:02This time you lose.
04:04I haven't said I'll do it yet.
04:06You will.
04:08Why will I?
04:10Soon you'll be in business for yourself.
04:12For that you'll need capital.
04:14Maybe.
04:18I'll think about it.
04:20Don't think too long.
04:25You shouldn't be thinking at all.
04:28Not when you're drinking champagne.
04:30Champas is awfully bad for cogitation.
04:32Then you must help us drink it Lady Caroline.
04:34I should think so.
04:36You've been neglecting me dreadfully.
04:40I didn't even know you were here.
04:44I thought I needed a bit of fresh air.
04:46You come from one of his prizes or do you fancy a pint of bitter?
04:48Watkins has entered.
04:50Watkins?
04:52Daddy couldn't come here himself
04:54so I came here myself.
04:56Looks like
04:58this respect and loyalty cut both ways
05:00if it's worth having.
05:04Can't be in two places at once.
05:06I can't be seeing this shop
05:08when I'm doing the orders.
05:10You better find somebody else to run your messages
05:12to Mrs Turnbull.
05:14Trouble is I can't.
05:16Nobody else I can trust.
05:18How is she anyway?
05:20Still praying.
05:22Still making money.
05:24Still robbing us blind.
05:26Not any more than you expected.
05:28What do you mean expected?
05:30Well you knew you should have a hand in the till
05:32the day you hired her.
05:34That's why you don't pay her much.
05:36Go on then, how do we answer it?
05:40What's up with you then?
05:42Indigestion.
05:44Get yourself some bicarbonate.
05:46Won't he see to the shop first?
05:50Sigh.
05:52Gunshots
05:54You're not exactly being discreet
05:56about this are you?
05:58Is there something to be discreet about?
06:00Manners think so.
06:02What are you up to Caroline?
06:04What's Harry Manners up to?
06:06Gunshots
06:08Gunshots
06:10He took a day off.
06:12But it's a working day.
06:14Wherever Jack is he'll be working.
06:16How can you work for a union if you've taken a day off?
06:18I never said he'd be working for the union.
06:20Well let's have it.
06:22Now what are you on about?
06:24You. That's what I'm on about.
06:26You're worried and I want to know why.
06:28He's up to something.
06:30You think so?
06:32I know so. Ten years him and me's been pals.
06:34I can recognize the signs. He's up to something all right.
06:36You too. You think you are married.
06:38Our dolly said that to us once
06:40and I belted her for it.
06:42You'll not start belting me.
06:44Well of course not.
06:46When are we married? When we do.
06:48If I said.
06:54You're very fond of Mr Ford aren't you?
06:56I'll call him Jack warn you.
06:58So long as he pays my wages he's Mr Ford.
07:00What answer is that?
07:02Well fond of him naturally.
07:04Why naturally? Because he's Jack.
07:06That's no answer.
07:08No well it was the war like.
07:10You men and that war.
07:12What I mean if it wasn't for Jack I wouldn't be here.
07:14What did he do?
07:16Oh leave it Sarah it's over.
07:18Tell us Matt.
07:20I want to know.
07:22We took a trench.
07:24White as it was.
07:26I got caught in the wire.
07:28A Jerry was going to stick a bayonet into us.
07:30Jack killed him.
07:32How?
07:34How did he kill him?
07:36Same way. Bayonet.
07:38Then he cut us free.
07:40If it wasn't for Jack.
07:42You're in real pain aren't you?
07:44Pain?
07:46He did something he was good at and you've worshipped him ever since.
07:48There's more to him than that.
07:50Where else is there?
07:52Excitement, good times.
07:54There's always good times when Jack gets started.
07:56Aye and there's plenty worry you know.
07:58You ought to see yourself Matt Headley.
08:00You're worried sick.
08:02Jack wants to get on you see
08:04and sometimes I make him do things.
08:06Wrong things.
08:08Well he's not dragging you down with him.
08:10There's only one way for Jack Pet
08:12and that's up.
08:14You and Horry
08:16are up to something.
08:18Something rather despicable
08:20or at least fair to.
08:22You think so do you?
08:24Yes I do.
08:26Why else would you meet here away from witnesses?
08:28You're a witness.
08:30But then neither of you knew I'd be here.
08:32I don't think I can allow you to do something despicable.
08:36And there's no good sulking.
08:38I mean what I say.
08:40Aye.
08:42I'm that way myself Bonnie Luss.
08:46Time to put him down ma'am.
08:48Oh hold on a minute. You're always in a rush.
08:50Anyway he's not over yet.
08:52You spoil him.
08:54Oh Ben's like a bit nursing.
08:56You could never get enough of it
08:58put you down you'd yell your head off.
09:00Never stand being crossed.
09:02Still can't. It's time you learned.
09:04Where's Arthur?
09:06That precious club of his.
09:08What club? Conservative club.
09:10Planning the next election.
09:12That would be for years.
09:14Anyway Geordie Watson got in.
09:16Well didn't he?
09:18All he needed was Jack.
09:20Jack talked Geordie in.
09:22Orator Ford
09:24crossed between a musical turn and a revivalist meeting.
09:26Had the audience laughing
09:28one minute crying the next
09:30and all the time loving him.
09:32And he didn't believe one word he said.
09:34But they did.
09:36Yes ma'am they did.
09:38And Geordie Watson got in.
09:40To hear Arthur talk
09:42it's the end of the world.
09:44You and Arthur's had words.
09:46About politics we always do have words.
09:48About Jack.
09:52He's over now ma'am.
09:54Let's have him. I'll do it.
09:56There.
09:58Oh.
10:00Oh.
10:02You didn't answer us.
10:04No I didn't.
10:09Jack's on his own again now Jessie.
10:11He's not ma'am.
10:13He's still married and so am I.
10:15Aye.
10:17Seal the heart out
10:19you're buzzing that lad.
10:21He wouldn't even know to...
10:23Oh.
10:25What is it?
10:27It's a touch of colic I think.
10:29That's not where you get colic.
10:31It's where I get it.
10:33Have you seen a doctor?
10:35I don't want a doctor for the colic.
10:37All I want's a drop of gin.
10:39You got any?
10:41You know I have.
10:43Arthur keeps it specially for you.
10:45Oh he's a real caring fella's Arthur.
10:47I said a real caring fella.
10:49Yes ma'am I heard you.
10:51And I agree with you and all.
10:53But it's not quite that simple.
10:55Marriage never is.
10:59That's better.
11:01Arthur's the one you took so you'll just
11:03have to make the best of it.
11:05A tonne's scandal enough for one family.
11:07There won't be any scandal of my making.
11:09You're a good girl Jessie.
11:11You always were.
11:13Even if you have got a bit of a tongue on you.
11:15I still think you should see a doctor.
11:17A fella half a gram for a bottle of gunnaboat.
11:19No thank you.
11:21Dad should take more care of you.
11:23Well it's time to take care of himself.
11:25It's no good just sitting there making excuses.
11:27Like I said a bit of a tongue on you.
11:29But I'll thank you not
11:31to use that tongue on me.
11:33He's late.
11:35Oh? What if he is?
11:37I didn't mean.
11:39It's just that I was feeling a bit hungry that's all.
11:41You eat too much?
11:43Like us better if I was thinner would you?
11:45I like you quite enough as it is.
11:48DOOR SLAMS SHUT
11:50No need to clash the door down Mr Ford.
11:52I remember me own courting days Miss Lytton.
11:54And I'll thank you not to make insinuations either.
11:57Ah you've got a lust for the bit spirit mutt.
11:59I have.
12:01You two set a date yet?
12:03We're thinking about it.
12:05Champion. You're just what he needs Miss Lytton.
12:07I hope you're right Mr Ford.
12:09I know I am and you've picked a good one and all.
12:11A real pal and straight as a die.
12:13Oh give over man.
12:15A letter came.
12:17Head office.
12:19I thought it might be urgent so I opened it.
12:21Of course. You were in charge.
12:23It was urgent all right.
12:27I see what you mean.
12:29Call fax.
12:31I'll just be putting your suppers on the table
12:33then I'll be off.
12:35You'll be wanting to talk private.
12:37No no Bonnie lass. If you're joining the family you're entitled to your share of our troubles.
12:39Troubles are there.
12:41Get us all a drink will you mutt?
12:45Yes.
12:49There's a fella called
12:51Calfax Miss Lytton.
12:53Millionaire. Runs one of the biggest
12:55non-union factories in miles.
12:57About once every three years we try to make
12:59him accept the union.
13:01Last time old Norman Taylor tried. He's what you might call my predecessor.
13:03Well
13:05now it's my turn.
13:07Like you say. Troubles.
13:09We'll see.
13:11Head office is sending a man up here from London.
13:13Want to gee us up a bit I suppose.
13:15You picked a grand day for a bit of a rest.
13:17Oh never say die Miss Lytton.
13:19But suppose you lose. I mean if this Calfax won't
13:21give in. What happens to Matt
13:23and you?
13:25Matt and me? I'll have lost a battle.
13:27We won't have lost the war though.
13:29But it would be a feather in your caps if you won though wouldn't it?
13:31Aye look grand in the annual report that would.
13:33Will it? Well then what?
13:35Get busy the pair of you. Fettle this Calfax.
13:39Just like that Miss Lytton.
13:41If you don't mind I think we'll have
13:43us up first.
13:45I've locked up.
13:47Mm-hmm.
13:49Is this any good?
13:53Can't sell a canny bit.
13:55Says it's for colic.
13:57So it is.
13:59That pain
14:01still bothering you?
14:03Come on I got it Jesse. It's just a twinge.
14:05Make yourself at the doctor's then.
14:07Doctors cost money.
14:09I've got money.
14:11You wouldn't believe it the state we live in.
14:15Just tell me this will you?
14:17What the hell is it we're on about?
14:19The state of this house or the way to treat a bellyache?
14:21There's no need for coarseness.
14:23No need for temper
14:25either. All I want's a bit chat.
14:27Calm and sensible.
14:29All right then.
14:31We'll chat.
14:35Calm and sensible.
14:39Only do me the favor and tell me
14:41what the hell it is we're chatting about.
14:45You're worried aren't you?
14:47I haven't said so.
14:49You don't have to milady.
14:51It's only over 30 years.
14:53Time enough to know
14:55where you start picking on us.
14:59You're worried.
15:01We're a bit colic. Don't be daft.
15:03All right.
15:05Well
15:07if it doesn't shift
15:09you're over to see the doctor first thing in the morning.
15:11All right?
15:17It's all the same.
15:19We should live in a better place than this.
15:21What do you mean all the same?
15:23What's wrong with the place anyway?
15:25It's a dump. That's what's wrong with it.
15:27That it's not. Keep it lowly.
15:29It's not like I went Jessie's though is it?
15:31Or Jack Ford's.
15:33Now what the hell's Jack Ford got to do with this?
15:35And stop using language.
15:37Now look fella.
15:39I'll admit it isn't a mansion.
15:41Mansion?
15:43But it's a business.
15:45Didn't the company have any lock up?
15:47You've got the money.
15:49I'd lose it sharp enough if we didn't live here.
15:51So that money just sits in the bank?
15:53Is that what you're saying?
15:55That money's there to be used.
15:57Oh and is that what I'm here for and all?
15:59Just to be used?
16:01Right.
16:03So.
16:05How are we going to handle it Matt?
16:07See Corfax.
16:09Oh aye I'll see him. And I'll fuck lot of good it'll do us.
16:11And after he's hoed us out.
16:13Talk it over with his fella from London?
16:15Boothroyd. I'm not letting him tell us what to do.
16:17This is our territory. Yours and mine.
16:19Come on Matt. There's only one way and you know it.
16:21A strike?
16:23A strike.
16:25It'll be a rough one.
16:27Bound to be. The men will need leading and all.
16:29They'll need Bonnie Lott O'Connor.
16:31And they'll need leading from inside.
16:33And I'm not going to work for Corfaxers.
16:35The pier's too small.
16:37Well who then?
16:39Didn't Eddie Morton get a start there?
16:41I seem to remember he came in and played hell about it.
16:43Eddie Morton?
16:45A real working class warrior is Eddie.
16:47Yearning for glory.
16:49But what?
16:51Well Eddie Morton's a boozer.
16:53Shove a few pints into him and he starts the revolution.
16:55And if he doesn't get a skinful he can't even speak.
16:57Sit down Ford.
17:27...
17:49Well?
17:51I always say first thing in the morning is the time for paperwork.
17:53You didn't come here to tell me that.
17:55I didn't come here to tell you anything.
17:57I came to ask for something.
17:59Then you've come to the wrong shop.
18:01I've come here to ask you to allow unionised labour in this works.
18:03No.
18:05BELL RINGS
18:07Good day Ford.
18:21I said good day.
18:23It'll get rough.
18:25I don't give way to threats.
18:27I'm not making any.
18:29Then what are you doing?
18:31Prophesying.
18:33If you don't let the union in, my union in, you'll have a strike.
18:35LAUGHS
18:39My god you're stupid.
18:41Strike.
18:43I'll lose 50 fitters.
18:45I'll hire 50 more and the strike will be over.
18:47Good day.
18:49Not this time. You've scraped the barrel.
18:51I've got 5 who haven't joined the union.
18:53I doubt if there's 10.
18:55Then I'll take on those that are. I'm doing it now.
18:57But...
18:59I won't have shop stewards
19:01and I won't pay union rates.
19:03Then you'll still have a strike.
19:05No.
19:09I'll bring in men from outside.
19:11I can get all the fitters I want
19:13if I pay their train fares.
19:15You'd really do that?
19:17Only before 20 years ago.
19:19Before the war.
19:21Business is war, Ford.
19:23All that matters
19:25is to win.
19:27Good day, Colfax.
19:33Took you time getting here.
19:35I got me round, sis. You know that.
19:37Yes. They're not over either.
19:39Well?
19:41I'm all right. Anyway, I've got me own doctor.
19:43And don't start looking like that.
19:45You said yourself you couldn't treat me.
19:47Who is it, then?
19:49Mam. Mam?
19:51She's in pain, Billy.
19:53Says it's just a touch of colic.
19:55I don't think so. What is it, then?
19:57I don't know. You're supposed to be the doctor.
19:59I am the doctor, but I can't treat her any more than I can treat you.
20:01I know that.
20:03But you can talk to her.
20:05Not any more.
20:07Well, you can try, then.
20:09She trusts you. She's proud of you.
20:11Handle it right, she'll do just what you tell her.
20:13Can't you try?
20:15I did try. I failed.
20:17It's up to you, Billy boy.
20:19There was a time.
20:21I know. Before you took up with Dr Stoker.
20:23That's right.
20:25Mam and me were close, then.
20:27You were her favourite. That's why she took it so hard.
20:29But you're still her favourite.
20:31She'll still listen if you say it right.
20:37I've got your message, Mr Ford.
20:39Sit down, Eddie.
20:41Have a drink.
20:43Mr Ford, there's a fine if I'm laid back.
20:45Drink when you can, bunny lad.
20:51Bye.
20:53That came out the right bottle.
20:55You're going to need it.
20:57Why? You came to see me about Colfax a bit back.
20:59I'll remember. I played hell.
21:01You did right.
21:03I'm not surprised.
21:05I know, Eddie.
21:07And there's fines for the least thing, you know, Mr Ford.
21:09That Colfax one's shooting.
21:11The one that'll give it back to him.
21:13You.
21:15We're going to try again, Eddie. What do you say?
21:17Say?
21:19I knew you wouldn't let us down, Mr Ford.
21:21I told the lads this is just a matter of time.
21:25It won't be easy, though.
21:27Tell us why not, Eddie. That's what I'm here for.
21:29See him again, Harry.
21:31I'd better be off. You'll have Arthur back in a minute.
21:33You don't want to see him, do you?
21:35Any more than he wants to see me.
21:37How can you stand it?
21:39I'll tell you. Sorry.
21:41Never mind.
21:43Just go and see Mum.
21:45First chance I get, I promise.
21:47Now listen to me, Billy Seton.
21:49We're not talking about one of your charity patients waiting in the queue.
21:51We're talking about Mum.
21:53They're all human.
21:55I dare say.
21:57But I wonder sometimes if you are.
21:59His place is here.
22:03He's got a lot on, Brother Boothroyd.
22:05He got my letter, didn't he?
22:07He knew I was coming.
22:09I got it.
22:11You fellas in the district are getting a dumb sign too big for your breeches.
22:13I've come all the way up from head office.
22:15My time's valuable, Hedley.
22:17Brother Hedley. What?
22:19Brother Hedley, I said.
22:21And now I'll say something else.
22:23If you can't be polite, you can bugger off now.
22:25Up to you, Brother Boothroyd.
22:29So you're Ford, are you?
22:31Carry that in court, Matt.
22:33Now, now.
22:35Just wait a minute, can't you?
22:39I spoke hastily. I'm sorry.
22:41It's all right. As long as we remember we're all on the same side.
22:43I said I'm sorry.
22:45I've been that worried, you see, this Colfax business.
22:47And I do think I've a right to expect you to be here
22:49when I come all the way up from London.
22:51And why do you think I was out when you got here?
22:53How else should I know?
22:55This Colfax business.
22:57You've a damn good right to be worried, Brother Boothroyd.
22:59Let's have it.
23:01First thing this morning...
23:03You might have told me. I might, but I didn't.
23:05He won't budge.
23:07No union.
23:09So I talked to Eddie Morton.
23:11He's the best fellow we've got at Colfax, says he'll fight.
23:13And he reckons the men will.
23:15Only... Only what?
23:17It's instant dismissal for the lot of them.
23:19Colfax will bring in scabs.
23:21Now, we can handle the scabs.
23:23Can you?
23:25Matt and me can.
23:27How? Do you really want to know?
23:29No, I don't.
23:31Very wise, Brother.
23:33Only after we've taken care of the scabs...
23:35Well?
23:37It'll be a long haul.
23:39Colfax will dig in. This one could drag on for months.
23:41It'll cost you money.
23:43Cost me?
23:45Headquarters. Fifteen men out.
23:47That's a lot of strike pay. Can you afford it?
23:49So now we're getting down to it, are we?
23:59I mean, when it comes to running your district,
24:01your Lord Monk and Headquarters is now, now.
24:03But when it comes down to money,
24:05it's Headquarters that has to pay. Is that it?
24:07It's Headquarters that wants the strike.
24:09There are other ways than strikes,
24:11Brother Ford.
24:15Well, go ahead and show me then.
24:17You'd let me take over?
24:19For the men, I would, yes.
24:21But I thought your rule was one cop, one win.
24:23So it is. I'll lend you mine.
24:25And as soon as I've done, you'll knock me off.
24:27If you win, what chance have I got?
24:31Strike pay, two quid a man.
24:33Fifty men, a hundred a week.
24:37Could be ten weeks.
24:39Could be a thousand quid.
24:41I don't need cash.
24:43Your cheque will do.
24:47Anybody in?
24:49I don't start.
24:57Hello, Mum.
24:59Dad.
25:01What brings you here?
25:03Just thought I'd pop in, see how you were getting on.
25:05Oh, aye.
25:07Seem to be a regular hobbit,
25:09were you, innit?
25:11Must be twice in six weeks.
25:13I've been kept pretty busy, Dad.
25:15We're all busy.
25:17Especially old Tom.
25:19He's got a woman and a band to keep.
25:21The cunnit Mary bears the pity,
25:23which is his responsibility
25:25and so's his son.
25:27And he honours them both.
25:29Are you paying him back with your own?
25:31Hasn't he told you?
25:33Oh, Tom doesn't carry tales.
25:35I'm paying him back.
25:37Well, that's a start, I suppose.
25:39I'll put the kettle on.
25:41I'll do it.
25:43Still working for Jack, are you?
25:45Yes, ma'am.
25:47Makes you jump, does he?
25:49Look, I haven't come here to talk about Jack Ford.
25:51What then?
25:53I'm keeping all right, that's all.
25:55Aye.
25:57I'll say I remember the last time you came.
25:59What was it, six weeks ago?
26:01Please, Dad.
26:03You're going to keep in touch.
26:05See you all getting on.
26:07Help your ma hump a few crates.
26:09There's a lot of folk poorly
26:11and there's only two daughters that can afford
26:13Stoker and me.
26:15All the same, I should have popped in.
26:17All right, I'm sorry.
26:19How's the legs?
26:21I'm all right.
26:23Are you? Well, of course I am.
26:25You don't look it.
26:27Oh, our Jessie sent you, didn't she?
26:29Didn't she?
26:31Yes, ma'am.
26:33Well, I don't need her and I don't need you.
26:35Get your tea and go.
26:37All this fuss just because I've got a bit colic.
26:39I told her I didn't want a lot of fuss.
26:41Will you just listen a minute?
26:43Your ma's not well.
26:45Don't you start.
26:47He's a doctor and he's your son.
26:49Just listen to him.
26:55Where does it hurt, ma'am?
26:59Any sickness, vomiting?
27:01Just at once.
27:03And when it hurts, it really hurts, doesn't it?
27:07I can't treat you, ma'am.
27:09Nobody's asking you to.
27:11But you need treatment.
27:13There's plenty of stuff for colic.
27:15That's not colic.
27:17It is appendicitis.
27:19The best thing is to get her to hospital straight away, Dad.
27:21The Royal Edward.
27:23Asked by Mr Millington. He's their senior surgeon.
27:25He won't be cheap, mind.
27:27Never mind the money. It's your mother we're talking about.
27:29She's good, Dad. One of the best.
27:31Only get her there now.
27:33Well, I can't take her.
27:35I can.
27:37Well, you won't.
27:39I've got a touch of colic and that's nobody going to tell me different.
27:41I'll tell you something else in all.
27:43There's nobody sticking the knives in me.
27:47Morning.
27:49You shouldn't be.
27:51It's a very boring drive.
27:59Don't your neighbours gossip when I come here?
28:01Not any more.
28:03I've told them you're from the Society for the Rescue of Fallen Women.
28:05They reckon you do the rescuing
28:07and I'll make them fall.
28:09So you do, Don Juan.
28:11What was that again?
28:13Don Juan. He was a man who adored women.
28:15They destroyed him.
28:17Oh, aye? Well, they won't destroy me.
28:19Sherry? No, thank you.
28:21Horry Manners thinks they will.
28:23I thought we'd get round to Manners.
28:25Did you? Aye, I did.
28:27You, me and Manners.
28:29That land deal.
28:33We're linked like that chain.
28:35How right Sir Horry is
28:37to be afraid of you.
28:39Been talking about me, have you?
28:41After the pigeon shoot.
28:43I fascinate him.
28:45You fascinate me and all.
28:47Let me finish.
28:51You've got something he wants.
28:53Aye, 17 acres of your land.
28:55Something else.
28:57That was why he asked you to the pigeon shoot.
28:59He was awfully upset I saw you both.
29:01In fact, he tried to blackmail me.
29:03In the nicest possible way.
29:05Oh, aye?
29:07You know, wondering if Daddy knew what close friends we were.
29:09All that.
29:11I can't rely on his discretion
29:13so long as I keep quiet.
29:15Well?
29:17Aren't you going to horse with him or something?
29:23You're going to take care of yourself,
29:25Bonnie Lass.
29:27You do remind me of my husband.
29:29He was just as
29:31big a cad as you were
29:33and just as scrumptious.
29:35I'm so glad
29:37I decided not to marry you.
29:39Me and all.
29:41We'd destroy each other.
29:43All the same.
29:45I meant what I said at the shoot.
29:47You are not to do anything
29:49despicable.
29:51All I'm going to do is get on.
29:53I don't mind you
29:55cheating Harry Manners, of course.
29:59Just what are you up to?
30:01Surviving.
30:03Somebody's out to get me, Bonnie Lass.
30:05And I'm not sure
30:07who it is.
30:17Baa!
30:19Baa!
30:21Baa!
30:23Baa!
30:25Well, sheep,
30:27that's the last of them.
30:29Well, sheep,
30:31that's the language you understand, isn't it?
30:33Oh, get on with it, Eddie.
30:35Baa! Baa!
30:37Baa!
30:39If there's a man amongst you,
30:41I'll tell him what that means.
30:43Sheep! Call me a sheep again
30:45and I'll hammer you. A man?
30:47There's a living breed.
30:49A man with a few guts left.
30:51All right, I'll tell you,
30:53Mr. Mann, the rest of us
30:55here are sheep, and Colfax
30:57there's the bloody butcher.
30:59Well, I've had just about enough of being a sheep.
31:01Me, I want me manhood back.
31:03And that means
31:05I want the union. Who doesn't?
31:07But what chance have we got?
31:09Chance? The sheep
31:11want a chance? I'll tell
31:13you what chance this flock of Colfax
31:15has got. We've got the union
31:17behind us. We might as well have the
31:19piles behind us.
31:21Doesn't he bleat lovely?
31:23Look at you. Chops and
31:25saddle of lamb, middle neck and scrag.
31:27That's all you are. You haven't got a fight
31:29left in you.
31:31Well, I mean what I say.
31:33The union's here right now.
31:35This minute.
31:37Come on up, Mr. Hedley.
31:47Tell them what we're here for.
31:49Brothers,
31:51I'm Matt Hedley,
31:53Assistant Secretary of the Fitness
31:55Union.
31:57And when I look about me, I don't
31:59see any sheep. I see
32:01men. Real men.
32:03Men that's
32:05skilled in their trade
32:07and entitled to a just reward for their trade.
32:09And I see
32:11men who will get that reward.
32:13You tell us, Mr. Hedley.
32:15I won't
32:17lie to you, brothers.
32:19You'll get nothing without a fight.
32:21We're not from Colfax.
32:23And to fight them, we'll need allies.
32:25But we've got them.
32:27I want to introduce you
32:29to Brother Boothroyd,
32:31who's come all the way from Union Headquarters
32:33to give us his backing.
32:35Come on up, Brother Boothroyd.
32:37I
32:49never agreed to this.
32:51You're in the front line now, Brother.
32:53Not headquarters.
32:55You'd expect a bit of fighting.
32:57Brother Boothroyd!
33:03Returning greetings
33:05from London.
33:07And I bring you something else as well.
33:09All the sympathy
33:11and the moral support
33:13that we can offer
33:15if you embark on this struggle.
33:17For too long,
33:19men like this, Mr. Colfax,
33:21have denied you justice
33:23and you do right to rebel.
33:25And what are you going to do?
33:27Yeah, what are you going to do?
33:29Back to London
33:31at the first opportunity.
33:33Action will follow in due course,
33:35I promise you.
33:37What action?
33:39Well, that's up to your executive to decide.
33:43Oh, my God!
33:45Another bloody bleater!
33:47Bah!
33:49Bah!
33:51Bah!
33:53Bah!
33:55Bah!
33:57Bah!
33:59Did you come here to bleed as well,
34:01Brother Hadley?
34:03Like hell I have.
34:05I came here to see if you wanted to fight!
34:07And it's up to you to tell me,
34:09yes or no!
34:31Bah, you're nice and early.
34:33Meat pies don't cook themselves.
34:35You had a lady in?
34:37That's right.
34:39A real lady? Right again.
34:41Funny way to run a union. I'm a funny sort of fella.
34:43And Matt's a lucky sort of fella.
34:45Where is Matt, anyway?
34:47On his way back from a meeting, I should think.
34:49You didn't go? He's big enough to go out by himself.
34:51Yes, he is.
34:53He worships you, you know. It's just a habit.
34:55You'll break him of it. Bah, you're
34:57a sharp one, right enough. Maybe.
34:59But I haven't cut myself yet.
35:01He told us.
35:03Matt, I mean. You killed
35:05a fella. A German.
35:07You saved Matt's life.
35:09Sounded just like the pictures.
35:11Only it was real.
35:13I love Matt.
35:15I really do. And he loves
35:17me. I can't compete with
35:19that, Mr Ford. No woman could.
35:21Not the way Matt is.
35:23The war's over,
35:25Bonnie lass. You're not.
35:27Not by a
35:29long chalk. By God, I'm not.
35:31But I'm not holding on to Matt, either.
35:33That's why I let him go to meetings on his
35:35own.
35:37Hello, Pat.
35:39Oh, give
35:41her a kiss, man. Now, that'll do.
35:43Meetings
35:45all right? Eddie Morton
35:47was drunk. He did good, then.
35:49He was. In Boothroyd?
35:51I see.
35:53Some of the lads is meeting in the Bluebell later on.
35:55We might have a walk down there ourselves.
35:57Take Boothroyd with us. Aye.
35:59I told him it was about time he did a spell
36:01on the front line. You didn't, did you?
36:03Good lad.
36:05By God.
36:07If I had the use of my legs, I'd carry
36:09you there meself. Well, you
36:11haven't. I don't need
36:13telling.
36:15I never thought I might have cowered.
36:17But I did.
36:19Afraid of a hospital.
36:21Afraid of a check-up, even. That's all
36:23Billy was after, just a check-up.
36:25Billy could be
36:27wrong, you know.
36:29He could be right and all.
36:31Aye, so now
36:33we're getting at it. You're frightened. Go on.
36:35Admit it. Oh, don't be daft.
36:37I went in the hospital.
36:39Who'd look after you? Well, that's just
36:41an excuse. We'd
36:43find somebody.
36:45You're frightened.
36:47Oh, Pat.
36:49No, bonnie lass. Look, I'm sorry. Look, Pat.
36:51I didn't mean it. I was just unworried about you.
36:53That's all. You're right and all.
36:55I am frightened.
36:57My fingers.
36:59I couldn't stand it.
37:01Oh, Pat.
37:05Oh, Bella.
37:07Bella. Oh, no.
37:11Help.
37:13Help.
37:15Oh, I said no bugger to hear us.
37:17Help.
37:19Help.
37:21Help.
37:25But this time it's different, I tell you.
37:27It's got to be.
37:29That's what Norman Taylor said three years ago.
37:31We're still a non-union shop.
37:33But this time it's different.
37:35We've got the whole union behind us.
37:37Headquarters even. Aye.
37:39We've all heard what you said about him and all.
37:41Go on, then. Go on.
37:43What did I say?
37:45You're right and all, Eddie.
37:47Oh, well, soft as clots.
37:49He was. I know. I know.
37:51But all the same, we're going to fight.
37:53Come on. Come on.
37:55Just wait a minute.
37:57I'll take you home.
37:59Please. Please.
38:03Oh, thank God.
38:05In here.
38:07In here.
38:11Oh, damn it.
38:13Get away in the kitchen.
38:18Oh, thank God, missus.
38:20Run down to Wellesley Street, will you?
38:22Find Dr. Seaton.
38:24Tell him to fetch an ambulance.
38:28Get him in, Matt.
38:30Sure.
38:32What on earth did you want to come here for?
38:34We were nice and comfortable in the Royal Sanderson.
38:36We've come here to work, brother.
38:38Mr. Ford! Come on, Eddie.
38:40I told you he'd come. I told you.
38:42It's war, is it?
38:44Not with one battalion at a time.
38:46That was one battalion, it's not.
38:48This time, the whole bloody army goes over the top.
38:50I'll tell you how it is, General.
38:52Jack.
38:54Thanks, Matt.
38:56If our lads go on strike, Colfax will bring in scabs.
38:58Well, we can handle the scabs, I told you.
39:00Only you didn't want to know.
39:02Well, maybe I've changed me mind.
39:04All right.
39:06Durham Light Infantry,
39:08Northumberland Fusiliers,
39:10Tyneside Scottish,
39:12Tyneside Irish.
39:14We can handle the scabs.
39:16But what you're saying...
39:18I've said not.
39:20What you're implying, then.
39:22It's violence.
39:24I'll have no part in it.
39:26And bugger off and leave the job to men.
39:36The reason I made you come here...
39:38You didn't. I made myself come.
39:40I'm like that, looking for punishment.
39:42You here?
39:44What I hear is irony.
39:46It's not an indictable offence.
39:48Violence is.
39:52When this man is plotting violence.
39:54Am I? Yes.
39:56You are.
40:00If I bring workers in from outside,
40:02you're going to have them assaulted.
40:04You've been looking in your crystal ball again, Colfax.
40:06If you have, it's been lined here.
40:08You should have it arrested.
40:10Tell him.
40:12It's not on, you know.
40:14What isn't?
40:16What Mr Colfax saw in his crystal ball.
40:18There's no harm in Mr Colfax
40:20seeing things,
40:22but if they were ever to become a reality...
40:24Go on.
40:26If workers from outside were attacked,
40:28if there was violence,
40:30intimidation,
40:32the possibility of riot,
40:34I'd turn out every man I've got
40:36at a riot act rate.
40:38I'd meet force with more force.
40:40There'd be broken bones
40:42and broken heads.
40:44They wouldn't be my men's.
40:46That's what I see
40:48in my crystal ball, Mr Ford.
40:50It doesn't lie.
40:58There'll be no riot.
41:00I'm obliged to you.
41:02You were never in the war,
41:04were you, Mr Colfax?
41:06You were in the war, were you, Mr Colfax?
41:08You spent it back here making dud shells.
41:10Well, I'll tell you something you don't know,
41:12seeing as how you weren't there.
41:14We lost Wipers, we lost the Somme,
41:16and we lost the Marne, thanks to you and the Germans.
41:18But we won the war.
41:32We've lost, Matt.
41:34We've started, Matt.
41:36No, and if we do, we're finished.
41:38Colfax had the chief constable in.
41:40He read us the riot act.
41:42They'll be watching us, Bonny lad.
41:44If we lay a finger on one scab,
41:46there'll be a baton charge.
41:48Well, he knew what we were going to do.
41:50Colfax told him.
41:52But how in the world would Colfax know?
41:54You tell me, Matt.
41:56One of the lads, I suppose, God knows,
41:58they need the money. You can't blame...
42:00No, Matt, I don't think so.
42:02Father Boothroyd.
42:04Give over.
42:06Tell us again what he said at Eddie Morton's meeting.
42:08Well, he wasn't all that keen, I admit.
42:10Tell us, Matt.
42:12All about sympathy and moral support
42:14and waiting for the executive decision, all right, but even so...
42:16Somebody from head office
42:18split the Colfax we were going to take action
42:20three days ago.
42:22What?
42:24A spy, Matt, in our head office.
42:26A spy for money.
42:28How do you know?
42:30Well, Monsquiz.
42:32From my money, it's Boothroyd.
42:34So that's what's been bothering you, is it?
42:36And to think me and Sarah was worried about you.
42:38No fears for steady men, Matt.
42:40You'd better keep an eye on Boothroyd.
42:42You mean we will?
42:44I mean what I say, bonnie lad.
42:46I see you, bonnie lad.
42:58A pint and a whisky, Harry.
43:00Mm-hm.
43:02You're down on your sorrows, Eddie?
43:04Aye.
43:06Sorrows is right, Mr Ford.
43:08Just been given the sack.
43:12Somebody must have shopped us for speaking up last night.
43:17He does, Mr Ford.
43:19You want to take it easy with that stuff.
43:23I'm no good without it.
43:25You're no good with it, either.
43:28You've changed your tune.
43:30Yesterday you were buying me whiskies.
43:32Yesterday there was a war on.
43:34We all need a top before we go over the top.
43:38You know Lewis Bishop?
43:40Shipyard? Aye.
43:42Go and see a fella called Dawson. He's foaming fitter.
43:44He needs an extra man.
43:46Tell him I sent you.
43:48Thanks, Mr Ford.
43:50Mind you get there sober.
44:06Something's a bit abrupt, Ford.
44:08Aye.
44:10How about I got from Colfax?
44:12Oh, I see.
44:14Strike's off, I gather?
44:16It was never on.
44:18And I owe you a thousand pounds.
44:20That's right.
44:22Haven't that much cash on me.
44:24A cheque will do.
44:43A thousand.
44:45All in me hand.
44:47All at one time.
44:49Only me mother could see us.
44:55What devil are you playing at?
44:57I didn't earn it.
44:59Got from Colfax.
45:01Colfax had his own pet lapdog back at headquarters.
45:04You said so yourself.
45:06And a champion job he did for Colfax and all.
45:08I didn't out.
45:10I didn't out.
45:12It had nothing to do with Colfax.
45:14It was your idea.
45:16You wanted to put me away, Manners.
45:19Bribery and corruption.
45:21I could do a canny bit of time for that.
45:23Don't be ridiculous, man. Why should I?
45:25Because I've got some land you want.
45:27It'd be no good to me in Jug.
45:29Likely I'd have to sell it cheap to pay for me defence.
45:32Admit it, Manners.
45:34That was your money you were giving us.
45:36Colfax didn't put up a penny.
45:38Why should he?
45:40You were just trying to have me put away.
45:43And it's no good sulking, Manners.
45:45I mean what I say.
45:56Well, Jessie?
45:58Jack?
46:00I'd have got here sooner, I just heard.
46:02How is she?
46:04She'll be all right.
46:06It was appendicitis, like Billy said.
46:08But they operated in time.
46:10Thank God.
46:12You're looking very smart.
46:14Aye. Your going-away suit.
46:16Going away?
46:18From Gathershield?
46:20No, just from the Union.
46:22You mean to say those ungrateful beggars have got rid of you?
46:24All the way around.
46:26What's that supposed to mean?
46:28She's waking up.
46:30All right. I want a word all the same.
46:33Hello, Mum.
46:35Jessie.
46:37Here's Jack Ford.
46:39Come to see you.
46:41What fettled money, lass?
46:43Connie.
46:45How could I do with her?
46:47A drop of gin, no?
46:49Jack, I was scared.
46:51Scared they were going to stick things in us.
46:54I've been scared of that now.
46:56And the wedding car is just the same.
47:00How are you, bonnie lad?
47:02Connie.
47:04Still getting on?
47:06Still getting on.
47:08I'll just give her this and then I'll go.
47:10Not before we've had that word.
47:12Aye, all right.
47:14She bullies the lot of us.
47:16Oh, that she doesn't.
47:18Just them that needs it.
47:20Here.
47:22For you, bonnie lass.
47:24Hurry up and get well.
47:26Oh, Jack.
47:28It's beautiful.
47:32Look, Jessie.
47:34It's fit for a queen.
47:36It was a queen I bought it for.
47:49Dance to the daddy, sing to the mommy
47:52Dance to the daddy, to the mommy, sing
47:59Thou shalt have a fishy on a little ishy
48:02Thou shalt have a fishy when the board comes in
48:17Thou shalt have a fishy on a little ishy
48:20Thou shalt have a haddock when the board comes in
48:23Thou shalt have a fishy on a little ishy
48:25Thou shalt have a bloater when the board comes in
48:28Thou shalt have a fishy on a little ishy
48:31Thou shalt have a mackerel when the board comes in
48:33Thou shalt have a fishy on a little ishy
48:36Thou shalt have a salmon when the board comes in