CROSSWORD

33 The winner of prize crossword no. 66 is Sheridon of North Wales Send entries to Prize Crossword, RMT, Unity House, 39 Chalton Street, London NWI IJD by March 10 with your name and address. Winner and solution in next issue. ACROSS 1 Sifts untidily, through sale bargains perhaps? (8) 6 13’s Number 1 (6) 9 The past, lyrically (10) 10 Tots up; finds total; says further (4) 11 People on two wheels (13) 13 Awdry’s island - home of 4, 6 across, 19, 20, 22 and, sometimes, 5 (5) 14 Sport of three endurance events (9) 17 Remark made (9) 19 13’s Number 5 (5) 21 People from the low countries (13) 24 Family group, especially in Scotland (4) 25 Nautical skill (10) 26 Waxy drawing implement (6) 27 Any branch of manufacture, trade or the economy, such as transport (could be heavy or light) (8) DOWN 2 Not new (4) 3 Mechanical device for keeping musical time (9) 4 13’s Number 4 (6) 5 Arrogant occasional visitor to 13 (Marks’s partner); (7) 6 Renegade (8) 7 Central African mammal with zebra-like stripes, related to giraffe (5) 8 Tried out for theatrical part (10) 12 Large black-and-tan German dog breed (10) 15 You could rest your head on them! (9) 16 Body of troops stationed in a particular place (or the fortress containing it) (8) 18 Round, unleavened bread from the Indian subcontinent (7) 20 13’s Number 2 (6) 22 13’s Number 3 (5) 23 Platform projecting into water as breakwater, promenade or landing stage; masonry support (4) £25 PRIZE CROSSWORD No. 67. Set by Elk No. 66 solution... RMT helpline 0800 3763706 :: february 2011 :: RMTnews Our president’s article in the last RMT news about Deutsche Bahn strikes me as anti-German. Starting with the puerile title “Deutsche Bahn uber alles” it goes on to inform us that the “German state railway was trying to create competition between French and German railworkers”. This is bad because we want co-ordination between workers from different countries, but why single DB out, they are not the only ones doing it? The same is happening at SNCF, the French state railway, for instance. What is the significance of including figures for German manufacturing output in the article? What difference does it make to us that “Germany’s share of manufacturing for export [is] the highest of any imperialist power worldwide [70 per cent]”? Incidentally China has a figure of 89 per cent. Is the president concerned with any other companies trying to achieve global monopoly positions? Either way, what has it got to do with us who owns the company? Are there different methods of struggle to be employed against a German as opposed to a French boss? Do we strike against British capitalists but only work to rule against Spanish ones? By all means attack dreadful bosses because of how they treat us especially as DB has just pulled the plug on the Shropshire-Wrexham railway and hasn’t released my region’s elected Council of Executive member; but don’t attack them because of their nationality. RMT organised an excellent meeting recently with other European trade unions to co-ordinate our response to anti-worker EU legislation; let’s not spoil that. There is a strain of anti-German chauvinism in the UK workers movement and articles like this one from the president will do nothing to lessen it. Tony Byrne RMT East Midland Central branch DON’T SINGLE OUT DEUTSCHE BAHN