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October 5, 1969 (refollowing Wednesday emphasizing that the survival rate amongst the wounded is higher in this war than in any other America has conducted; that the 'military's work in rehabilitation is encouraging and dramatic'.

But the veil is slipping; the old lies don't roll so easily off the tongues of those responsible for this carnage.

Millions of people, however liberal or semi-conscious, are being forced to understand.

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A Centenary Tribute Gandhi. a.m., Medicine In Questi WITH. THE Association of Broadcasting Staffs, representing a third of BBC workers, recently striking for a basic increase in pay and against non-payment of productivity increases, the BBC's enthusiasm over its own special series of programmes to sell productivity deals falls somewhat flat.

In the first of the ten programmes which are being produced in conjunction with the trade unions, all of which are aimed specifically at shop stewards, productivity bargaining was examined.

It was clear from the start tsual reasonable one m usual partial' approach as used by management consultants in the early days of any productivity deal.

members The programme began with a him 1 of a convenor in a Midlands engineering firm 'nagging' his members for higher production on the shop floor.

'Is he doing the management's dirty work?', ', 'Has he been conned?' are the questions asked.

It turns out that he hasn't The managing director of the firm in question appears on the screen to explain that at the time when the scheme was introduced three years ago:

'We'd got a climate developed by the government over the preceding 18 months where folk pretty well generally understood that there was no longer to be something for nothing and we wanted to make ourselves competitive in a very real sense with people trom abroad, and to do this we'd got o produce more from the people we'd got.' The management then went on to offer the 'olive branch' to the shop stewards who were reluctant to take it.

Why this sudden friendly attitude on the part of management? We were told :

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Round the table One shot in the film shows management, work-study men shop stewards sitting conne or table forward The 'We're a bit concerned about one or two of the performances being low.' With this joint committee meeting regularly, things are different, claims the convenor, and he adds:

'The decision is made jointly. They don't come and say "ten men are going to be made redundant because of pay and productivity, here's a list of ten men" , what they say now is "We've got ten men surplus co requirement, what shall we do with them?"' After this film of a productivity scheme in action, the programme continued with a discussion with a management consultant from the firm in the film together with Derek Whittaker, head of the Production Studies Department of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundryworkers (AEF), a department that was 'set up to advise on productivity bargaining and its associated techniques Cannot tell Is a con-man stunt 'How can you tell - early days,' says Whittaker, adding 'I would like to sit here with Alan (the convenor) in two years' time and say, "were you right, and how many members have you now got, how many people went down the road as a result of bad forecasting or bad manpower planning by the However, the management man doesn't need to wait and see.

He is quite clear happening :

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BY BERNARD FRANKS 'We have to be prepared to bring the unions fully into the management role. They have to be able to help organize the shops so that the management can operate them successfully?

Whittaker listens to this, but only remarks, I'm cautious, not suspicious'.

The programme ends with some advice from Whitaker:

'Get a no-redundancy guaratnee . . . examine long-term proposals of the management • .. and above all, get good communications.' The situation shown in this first programme is typical of phase one of the introduction of many productivity deals, where the management is very friendly, where supervision is moved out of the way while the shop stewards bring in and operate the new measures.

It is always possible in this situation to find workers who are satisfied, who have received increases in pay and somewhat improved conditions, without having the full force of work-study and Measured-Day Work, as yet, thrust upon them.

Later on, once the scheme is in, the stewards can be promoted or 'dumped' and management can take over once more.

Many workers watching this series, who have reached phase two or three of a deal, or who have been told 'accept Measured-Day Work or get out' (car industry), or who face large-scale redundancies and closures (docks), can see from this programme how their stewards were originally 'conned' on the basis of improving 'communications.

With the present strength of the working class at shop-floor level, employers find it impossible to simply enforce new measures.

They must get 'participation' and 'class-collaboration' at all levels and must also develop a 'big-sell' technique — hence this programme.

The accompanying booklet, drawn up jointly by the BBC and the TUC, makes it quite clear that the main emphasis of the series will be on workmeasurement techniques, including coverage of pre-determined motion - time systems (PMTS) and Measured-Day Work.

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