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REFINED INFORMALITY limes, and the good attitude will quite frequently burgeon of its own accord. There are probably plenty of people who feign it for the sake of their own advancement: so-called 'blood oranges' - yellow on the outside, red within. You flatter the bosses in the sports groups; you bathe in the radiance of the merciful sun that rises over employees on festive occasions, in the shape of some great patron or other. 'No stiff, solemn ball characterized by grave dignity and respectable boredom', 'nthuses the diarist of one works newspaper over an event at the rowing dub attached to the firm, but a family party in Ihe setting of the rowing club all a colourful medley, many leading gentlemen from our establishment with their ladies and, as a special honour for us, the chairman of the board of directors, Privy Counsellor X, who nodded affably to the dancing couples and appeared to feel entirely at his ease. No resenre, no sepanltion, a purely human gettogether for the pride and pleasure of the coming generation. 'Refined informality' was the watchword of the evening. Hard to decide which is more pitiable: the confusion of joviality with a purely human get-together, or the over-zealous triumph at the fall of barriers. Probably not everyone has the good fortune to feel at ease in such circumstances. In employee-union circles, the conviction prevails that company sports associations do not primarily serve the purpose of physical training, but are intended to distract from trade-union interests. Various works-council members tell me of their experiences. Young people especially, says one, easily fall for a magic that is as cheap as it marvellous; while another maintains that employees blessed from 011 high with the pleasures of sport gradually slip away from the all councils. The contest with the neo-paternalist structures for the time being occurs in the form of fierce propaganda skirmishes. 'They Arc After our Souls!' runs the title of a piece by Fritz Fricke (put out by the publishing house of the General Confederation of German Trade Unions) , in which among other things he argues: 'Are we perhaps to recognize the will to community from the fact that, in a growing crisis, the employer first seeks to protect the interest on his capital by depressing wages, lengthening working hours and sacking workers?' And he draws the succinct conclusion: 'An integration of interests between employer and worker is quite impossible, so long as the economy is organized exclusively on a private-enterprise basis. The theoretical rejection is matched by practical conduct. Even if some officials do not really believe in the seductive power of company event�, worried souls still warn against sporting activity even in mixed 79
80 THE SALARIED MASSES enterprises; and alternative sports associations of the employee unions seek to direct the steam of the instincts into their own machine. Thoughts collide, objects exist close together in space. 10 A ghostly battle on the sports fields for the souls of the masses. All the more relentless because dreams are at stake. 10. Allusion to Schiller's 'Death of Wallenstein', Act II, Scene 2: 'Thoughts can exist so easily together/But objects in a space will soon collide.' See Plays II, translated by Jeanne Willson, Continuum, New York 1991, p. 152.
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