field Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
technical workers union ASTMS supporter, CHRIS PITTS Chris: What made you get involved in CND in the first place?
Arthur: Well, I went for years without really thinking about it, but one day somebody gave me a few pamphlets to read, and what I read really appalled me. Not only that, but the fact that Id not known anyining about this before appalled me too.
But then my reaction was, were can set some intormation on the other side of the story. so Cause usu But there wasn't any, except unis stupid stutt on civi defence. Like on TV the other dav. HEY Were SHOWIng nuclear shelter and saying that it is better than the Anderson ARTHUR WAYMOUTH and BOB HOLMES work at the River Don plant of the British Steel Corporation and have been recruiting fellow steel workers to the ShefArthur is a shop steward in the General and Municipal Workers Union and Bob is a member of the Earlier this year they talked to Socialist Challenge crafty read..
Bob: Talking to people individually is the main way l've been getting it across. The maJorry are sympacene, anal l spend ten minutes, which is just tume enough to get some points across, I've converted them, or won them to CND. was surprised. honest, when I got talking to how many frightened and alarmed, and knew more about it than you would think.
Chris: What reactions do you get from people at work and how do you answer them?
Arthur: A lot of people say, I'm surprised at vou. Arthur getting involved with this CND good chance of dying.
We saw the Secretary of State on the TV the other night, Haig. war, he 1s.
His idea is that America could survive a nuclear war, especially with the first strike All this talk of surviving a nuclear war in your under the garden or in the house is just a lot of propaganEven survive, though, what sort of a world would you come our to?
They seem to suggest that it will be life as normal to be Saturday, work on Monday. It's just abwere surd.
There'll be no gas, no electricity, everything radioactive.
But when we come out of the shelters — the few who are leit well ask "Who did this?" and we'll have to say that we were all responsible. stop it.
Some people what about the Russians? But American really frightened.
He's all for a nuclear ludicrous.
They people shelter a bogey.
supposing you did bureaucracy gone mad.
golf on them you look church on Sunday progress really.
We can spending say lo me, about 20 they can just ignore us. It's only the people with money who are Bob: The idea that Russia is invade us is just can't even control Afghanistan. One of the jobs of CND has got to be to help understand that the Lussian bogey is just that, only Having said that, we don't want that system here; it's a Arthur: The Russian people must be partially satisfied; they must have something going for back into from 1917 to now, they've come from Magna Car ta to the space age. 500 years in 60. Marvellous.
Bob: 1 think that the US is try ing to bring the USSR to its knees economically with the arms race. This year, America 5168bn, per cent up on last END THE BOME