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A small person with a blurred lens
Sidney 2022-03-28 08:01:02
This sentence in the speech touched me the most. You had to do something. That was a given. Because it was a matter of principle. You had to stabd up ,you had to do what was right.Otherwise you wouldn't be able to lokk at yourself in the mirror. When encountering something, my mind is often full of complex intertwined concepts, social, past, present, flooding the brain like a flood. "Principles" and "correctness" were also washed into skeletons, standing in the museum's showcases as a lonely figure to accept the whispered comments of visitors "It turned out to be like this before, so good." In fact, for a long time, I am one of the visitors, I dare not get out of this vicious circle, it is obviously correct, but I am afraid to do it, so I shrink in a delineated box and silently praise the brave, but I like it very much It's very exciting, just like the lines in the heart of a little character whose camera is blurred in the play.
Extended Reading
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[Rita gives an impromptu speech at the trade union conference]
Rita O'Grady: My best friend lost her husband recently. He was a gunner in the 50 Squadron in the RAF. Got shot down one time, on a raid to Essen. And even though he was badly injured, he managed to bail out. I asked him why he joined the RAF, and he said "Well, they've got the best women, haven't they?"
[audience laughs]
Rita O'Grady: And then he said "Well, you've got to do something, haven't you? You had to do something, that was a given. Cos it was a matter of principle. You had to stand up. You had to do what was right. Cos otherwise you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror." When did that change, eh? When did we, in this country, decide to stop fighting? I don't think we ever did. But you've got to back us up. You've got to stand up with us. *We* are the working classes - the men *and* the women. We're not separated by sex, but only by those who are willing to accept injustice and those like our friend George who are prepared to go into battle for what is right. And equal pay for women *is* right.
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[following her talk with Rita, Connie and the rest of the Dagenham women, Barbara Castle makes a statement to the waiting journalists]
Barbara Castle: I am delighted to announce that, following our talks this afternoon, the 187 Ford machinists *will* be going back to work on the 1st of July. They will receive an immediate pay rise of seven pence an hour which will put them at 92 percent of the male rate. However this is not all. As a result of our discussion, I can confirm that the Government is in full support of the creation of an Equal Pay Act, and by the autumn of this year I guarantee appropriate legislation to ensure that this act becomes law!