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1 ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AT.D CKROfuOX Fndoy. July 9. 1376 Spit and polish He stokes ire in firemen D4C The Los Angefes Times LONDON Shortly after pavid Callingham arrived to take command at the Battersea Fire Station here the other day, the alarm bell rang a grass fire was burning nearby. The station's IS firemen, relaxing in their second-floor dayroom, leaped to action. They hauled on their boots and jackets, clapped on their helmets, slid down the brass pole to the ground floor, raced to the fire engine and swung aboard.

The driver started the engine. Then Callingham climbed on. The driver shut off the engine. The firemen dismounted, climbed the stairs back to their dayroom, took off their helmets, jackets and boots and returned to their chairs. A nearby station had to handle the grass fire.

Another round in Officer Callingh-am's trouble was under way. During the day, the Battersea station had six more alarm calls and each was answered by a nearby fire station. "We are not striking," a Battersea have no organization or efficient teamwork, and people will suffer." "Discipline is necessary, but it must be tempered with justice and common replied a Fire Brigade Union spokesman. When the Battersea firemen maintained their ban on Callingham, his superiors moved him to a desk job at the Wimbledon fire district headquarters. But contract trouble between the London Fire Department and the firemen's union has closed 20 of the city's 114 fire stations.

The current heat wave has increased fire hazards, and 'every available fireman is needed for duty. So Callingham's superiors sent him back to Battersea. That constituted a "direct move of agitation and confrontation," a union spokesman said, and Battersea's firemen refused again to work with Callingham, abandoning their engine each time he put a foot on it. "It's like a Keystone Kops comedy," fumed a senior fire department officer. "The men are acting like bloody old women when people's lives could be at risk." fireman explained.

"We simply are refusing to take out the engine with Mr. Callingham aboard." Callingham's troubles began several months ago when the 30-year-old, officer was named deputy commander of the Richmond Fire Station. He found discipline lax there, he said, and began to try to tighten it. The Richmond firemen objected. Callingham, they complained to the Fire Brigade Union, was ordering too many practice drills, too many fire engine scrubdowns, and "too many cups of tea for himself." He instituted, one fireman said, a "bloody-minded spit-and-polish policy." So Richmond's firemen refused to work with him.

Callingham's superiors shifted him to the Battersea station. The firemen there gave him the same treatment. He was given two fire department hearings on the Battersea firemen's allegations that he was "bloody-minded and officious," and was cleared both times. Callingham said discipline was vital for firemen because, without it, "You -'A i i 7 v. Semi- Annual Clearance Dog days Europe's worst drought in a century threatens to cut the harvest to one-third Sale reuuces lane oi saint yurnun-ies-V velines anu severcij' uuj urc to a field of dried mud.

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