In those days the clothing of the trapeze worker was dictated by helmsmen lacking every basic form of empathy.

Yes, we all had to indure in conditions like this dressed in ordinary moped clothing, in swedish so called "mopedställ". Only coal minors could have had worse working conditions and so Lars Heuman founded the International Trapeze Workers Union (ITWU) at the banquet of the Team 505 World Championship at Hastings 1966.

In his inflammatory speach he said:

- This is not the end, not even the beginning of the end. This is only the end of the beginning of stopping dedicated trapeze workers being exploited by ruthless helmsmen ......

And so the corner stone for decent working conditions for thousand and thousands of trapeze workers throughout the world was laid this late evenening in August 1966.

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