Workers Press no. 171

plunge share prices workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 171 • WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

As 'funny money' empires totter Down and down

BY PETER JEFFRIES

IN THE MIDST of the most serious crisis of Heath's 'old friends'- confidence facing American capitalism since the 1929 crash, Wall St opened this week with its attacks on working class worst fall in a single day for over seven years.

As the Dow Jones industrial average plunged over 20 points, Senate Democratic leader Mr Mike Mansfield demanded that President Nixon call an meeting of business and labour leaders to discuss what he termed the 'crisis' facing the economy.

All the 'glamour' stocks 'Star' with over changing

TULION

shares and increasing nanas screens evidence of the entry the large institutional in- vestors Into The market aid for The Wall St slide is now rapidly World-wide crisis. Greece Tumble STRONG REPORTS in- dicate that the

NATO

heir holding Ministers' roreign Con- ference, which opened in 50-point dive. nome yesterday see Dare four story), will prove to Care Price wave the vashed to new loss. occasion 101 Nixon Both and tal par the heavily

CHOIR PRACLICE:

Mr edward Heath capita allostacles May dine in meeting the Dress, the supply present the Stewart

LENIN

fascist regime of the Greek INTRODUCING the Tory General Election manifesto colonels.

CENTENARY

moots talks at a London press conference yesterday, Mr Edward Heath stressed that all the 'old friends' were there.

Backlash militarave with Pact

SWINDON

of course, anti-

BY PETER READ

LONDON also felt th order, they they deat 9.5

XPLORATORY

wite Two lectures to mark the on the r bril 1967.

HAT

points Secretary, the NATo Labour sed by 100th anniversary of the all, the Greek regime sterinis birth of Lenin. serial conference in Rome.

The growing American Sunday, May 31, 7.30 p.m.

financial crisis and its reper- cussions London noW *Theory and practice and the promise ete bion the centre.

revolutionary party leath regretted election campaign. lacil agreemen coThen tae militaly of the Sunday, June 7, 7.30 p.m.

to see organizations concerned arting implications from Lenin and the coming english revolution' Totes intation to change they

OXFORD HOTEL

ost the Tories and Israelis raid not onio i colonels need Corner of Groundwell Rd Lebanon ricket is far from Co-operation Aid Speaker: Gerry Healy, wanted the tour to go or national Socialis Secretary, Tories in another and as yet day Labour League co-operation Compensation Street. Admission 2s councemen that ic ai Change the laws so teases the Israel Strings 'unacceptable', to be with say tom say Sovex strikers ahments imposed by The onrate central or the do mite bender. sector the tims concibeen to CIR probes nters its third Home Stores lay they renterited ester relations Fewer homes describe as a tu die ou pa Workers Unior ere for seeping produc published oyding e ninesside Ministryem- home' was membershi ment yesterday. money pay empire it implans fat i ha movement in end of April, 107,000 ho accounts pract been granted man, Holand he sames four 0112s 35 are ating wages

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BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

TERROR IN CYPRUS

FORMER Czech Com- munist Party secretary Alexander Dubcek is facing expulsion on the recommendation of specially constituted Party commission. Reports coming untouen Czech say Channels recommendation was the couched that the attacks on him appear pale.

The Party's Central Com- mittee is expected to form-

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE CONTINUING political crisis in Cyprus exploded over the weekend with a series of terrorist acts by extreme right-wing groups.

On Saturday, more than 150 masked armed men raided the central police attempt on rresaent mvakarlos station in Limassol at Leaflets left by the Nationas by 1.30 a.m. tront, Ulld masked dis- he tellullsi active armed the The Talas. comme as ther eve ol a general with quantities nuge July, are the lasi election three endorse Commis and of a series of terrorist activi- sion's recommendation soon ties and step certainly deprive him of his generally considered in ponce stallon s releonones anawire- po turkey. Czech ambassador less sets were destroyed. At ine time. another Greek expe Mrs Dubcek, who accom gang men kid- masked highly probable ence her husband napped ex-section Header that

EOKA,

Tryfonidis, Ankara December, has and yet already been attempted, Document Czechoslovakia recalled LO Andreas arrest and Is Danted wrom leaving It has collaborator and been friend the country. Tryfonidis. nounced that the nolice have a document entitled 'Paralysis'

PRESSURE

which that Attempt of a raid Holding close The raids were followed in wider relauver erations. nosware was a device niten the atternoon ov unsuc- pape mor pressure to al cessful attempt on the life of used serving Greek colonels Konstantinou, of openly the Cypres police lay" that it tical opponents and poten- after the nanas tial victims. National Front the organiza- any. to Reversion this tactic by the Husak regime • I der N Vietnam- armed non lines situation in CzechoslovaKia.

against Makarine putsch rinay te came joices British Labour declaring must National Front, demand the right to investi- patriotic of gate the charges being made er the aid deal agitate nationalist and tellow asanist Haue unionist [union unionists and socialists in areece! Cypriot people' czecnoslovakia

LIC

TO CIT

CHINA and N Vietnam have of 'Estia' the renects ureek is set in motion. signed a new military and on Cypriot

DOSITION

Cvells. economic aid agreement

ITALIAN CP

Peking, Hanoi Radio reported Imminent yesterday. political now

CUISIS

maturing in Cyprus not Under the agreement, which only presen vietnam end Makario lengthy ut also threatens the destruc military

COM-

DAVID

DAKNES

MENTS: If the man Cyprot ucmoclauc Tients OI munist Party hated to and WOrKerS cover over its treachery peasants. Czecho-

NO DEBATE

ror over a decade Maramos question remain nas been ane to the Italian Party. ON This most right-wing of th

SPRINGBOKS

together European parties ween Stallite forces with th maintained a paralysed silence on warauays revelauons chal

TORY

St MP Mr Albans imperialism, une rrenco rary sumoned evi Victor foodnew talled in the forces representing British im dence against Dubcek. House of Commons yesterday Italian Policilsl muleresis anla une During the an debate recent working class under the lead- cancellation of the week V magazines om - African cricket tour. were this distributed by here rarlamentary seats munisti' gave only a studiously common debate failure agreement between basis Home Secretary to protect the forces the However, right of British subjects to go Makarios' lating Part a Doll tencasons. early

MPS

that not only did the French leered Callaghan capitalism's When he claimed which takes

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had "capitulated to mob rule'.

Mediterranean in Sharp form in allack arainst ine AraD people was orouent ine work- seasant of Ine cass ane poor on the scene in a series sharp struggles. Unity The Stalinist AKEL openly condemned or political mobilization in the

STRIKE

action by tech- overall wage rise of at least 12 cent nad man baked our per cent. name Technicians due to come cent pav claim blacked Under these conditions the pro- ranada television On uly al / dolle yeolerudy melal contracuons or the grammes from lunchtime do not report for WOrK. bourgeois croups reacned their rested o ine erect strike shattering nenest bout. the was to put all programmes technicians- alliance between the different from Granada-the North- capitalist sections and between and Tele- West commercial television them and Stalinism. headed by Thus mark Sir Sidney placed over Makarios Granada's Manchester himself, Bernstein- To de itt studIos — аполсеа шєн alliance. between the former srike pans ast week Methods oT manning ol Chaos and dislocation for the A Granada 6z5-ine and colour trans. propramme mes basis hot a po date be cue networked sovercal macaine a classi- payment which productivity nationally p.m. was at would give also hit.

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workers press plunge share prices INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 171 • WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1970 As 'funny money' empires totter Down and down

BY PETER JEFFRIES

IN THE MIDST of the most serious crisis of Heath's 'old friends'- confidence facing American capitalism since the 1929 crash, Wall St opened this week with its attacks on working class worst fall in a single day for over seven years.

As the Dow Jones industrial average plunged over 20 points, Senate Democratic leader Mr Mike Mansfield demanded that President Nixon call an emergency meeting of business and labour leaders to discuss what he termed the 'crisis' facing the economy.

All the 'glamour' stocks 'Star' were with over million shares changing increasing nands and evidence of the entry screens the large institution an the market. aid for The slide is wallst vorld- wider CrisIs. Greece Tumble

STRONG REPORTS

in-

NATO

cha liquidate oncate tual Ene Ministers' Foreign con- any price 20 terence. wnien opened ln add to Monday's Rome yesterday (see page 0-point dive. Tour story. will prove

SYDNEY

for the selling be the

NIXON

A amuse alon all obstacles the Maudli present the Tory supply armns

LENIN

fascist regime of the Greek INTRODUCING the Tory General Election manifesto

CENTENARY

colonels. palLeIn Such a at a London press conference yesterday, Mr Edward Backlash Heath stressed that all the 'old friends' were there.

which the

SWINDON

BY PETER READ

a LONDone also inacha practice beer they canat 50 sre reduction Two lectures to mark the Out ou over su quesuon nly eading as man from the reporters presen 100th anniversary of the Istrial shares took a heavy birth or war if Belon ra o1 Lenin. growing trike are mine. Americal Sunday, May 31, 7.30 p.m.

Lod ins por inancial crisis indicated that was ais cussions London "Theory and practice and the at the revolutionary party' during the run-up to Heath regretted Sunday, June 7, 7.30 p.m.

leaders to try to organizations concerneporting implications from 'Lenin and the coming English working class. revolution The s resersed services

OXFORD HOTEL

Investors Corner of Groundwell Rd want ef the tour to he an.

Co-operation Speaker. Gerry Heav. national Secretary, Socialist Labour League Doubts Compensation Admission 25 The Tory manifesto chang Strings 'unacceptable', property will se say Sovex strikers through oth copushments imposed by Sovex That he thought Ir would IOs, which he major fahor in the campaien.

i singt from the ew op dispute ecur tres and Ex hange Com enters its third week. One of the companies which opposite to Sores national situatior which start purch lion going wrong'. Some hopes!

at the inflated fewer homes Were completed in wee ior vice-president tot being omes wer instead to chip in off Dubious

TH NANO

Ment yesterday the boom accounting practices

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erection work; introduction

AGE FOUR COL H

DAY, MAY 27, 1970

Stewart moots talks with Pact four. Israelis raid Lebanon commando units. According to Major General nof the Israeli he border with israway fron The ed percen sector 50 mile border Home Stores relations Britishs Rome restores inter The and tied Workerr Dis- inted tec ditions. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. IT'S GOING to be a tight finish.

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BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

TERROR IN CYPRUS

FORMER Czech Com- munist Party secretary Dubcek Alexander is facing expulsion on the recommendation of constituted specially Party commission. Reportsp coming through channels say ure recommendaton coucied the most recent made even attacks on him appear pale.

The Party's Central Com-

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE CONTINUING political crisis in Cyprus exploded over the weekend with a series of terrorist acts by extreme right-wing groups.

On Saturday, more than 150 armed masked men attempt on President Makarios' raided the central police life. station Limassol at left by the raiders heatiets 1.30 a.m. signed the 'National Front', The masked gunmen •US- in Cyprus organization policémen armed the sent station, and _in the coming as they them do eve the 01 d with huge ally endorse the uly. ale Lne last arms 01 a semes or terrorst acuvi- police sions recommendauon soon Les steD the potice general considered in coons deprive him wire- rehearsal dress post Czech ambassador destroyed. right-wing coup. Turkey. At Following the Greek experi sallic Mrs Dubcek, who accom- gang Maskca men Deniedy husband that re attenti ma may be made her reader went Ankara last and yet. December, another recalled Czechoslovakia attempted, unsuccessfully, Document arrest Andreas Efthynion, banned from leaving and 1s officially It has been friend and collaborator an- the country. nounced that the police have Tryfonidis. a cocument ended marasis

PRESSURE

the Attempt wnica makes clear that of Limassol raid is part Holding close relatives The raids were followed in wider plan of operations. hosta Cy was a device the afternoon Estia', Athens OLen unsuc Solompet Stalin to. apply serving the usCu cessaul attenDI on une me or openly mora pressure to us Don- Konstantinou. one that hands the number arrested after lical opponents and poten- tial victims. the member ot National Front the organiza- Reversion to this tactic N Vietnam- launch ov the susak recime under- armed gravity the putsch against Makarios innes the situation in Czechoslovakia Nunally me same DaDer oices al ot the must British anour National Front, declaring that demand the right to investi- wind of patriotic sate the charges being mad aid deal begun to agitate has nationalist and unionist [union socialists with Greece] new series of Prague trials zechoslovakia betore rejoicing CHINA and N Vietnam have 'Estia' reflects

UICEK

Is set in monon. and signed a new position Cypriot mullary economic aid agreement Cyclis.

ITALIAN CP

Imminent Peking, Hanoi Radio reported The yesterady• now Dolltical CrISIS

AVOIDS ISSUE

Under the agreement, which maturing in Cyprus not only covers the present year, poses an Chinefundable will Vietnan Makarios' military

DAVID

BARNES

сом- economic aid.

MENTS:

If the French Com- rights has workers ana and cover over peasallls. hypocrisy on the

NO DEBATE

Czecho- For over a decade Makarios slovak question certainly has able been … TO remain the as the ON president aDvearine Party. quarantor. ornationa unity. This most right-wing of the attempted to bring He has European Europeaned a paralysed pries Stalinist

SPRINGBOKS

together and balance between the forces connected with right wing Garaudy's revelations that the French Party supplied evi

TORY

St Albans MP Mr imperialism, Victor Goodhew failed in the representing British ucnce aramnst buocer. House of commons vesterary interests the During the recent Italian to get an emergency debate working class lead- newspaper strike, one of their on the cancellation of the ership of the Stalinist AKEL.

African cricket tour. weekly marazines Lon- Parliamentary seals were munisti' gave only a studiouslv sought thus distributed by -bate on the hailure who common account the neutral the three of the arreement derween matter. Home Secretary to proet h on the basis Torces in ever the a rumour circu- Makatos' Party tion named •Patriotic Front'. lating about their occasions, since early year has The development, however, this MPs was cereu LaDoul that only did the French crisis, claimed wien ne sharp form

• PAGE FOUR COL. 8 →

had captuated to moo rule.

Mediterranean Miau people, has brought the work- class anu boor peasanary cule scene la seres snare struggles. Unity The Stalinist

AKEL

openly condemned trade union tech-

STRIKE

action in overal ware rise ol d or political mobilization in the nicians demanding a 12 per 'national unity' blacked Technicians due to come cent Day Clam these the duty at 7 a.m. yesterday on Granada 1 elevision

DIU•

internal contradictions of did Ine Lunchtime grammes NUL reDUlL 101

WLA,

vuurscuis croups reachea men enect shatterne 300 technicians- WaS allance between toe ditterent members of the Association trom -The capitalist sections and between West commercial television them and Stalinism. • headed by Labour mark Thus Sir Sidney placed over Makarios himself. air from announced their alliance. sLuulus the former strike plans last weeK. Melnods Granada a situation u. rans the mission. thev said. should be aue networked Sover cut macallic, a classi- the basis of a productivity p.m. was

• PAGE FOUR COL. 6 _ ‹

payment would also hit.

PAGE TWO

what exactly is piece vork and how is it used' PIECEWORK is the type of payment- by - results (PBR) system best suited to the production line type of work.

system is simple. A The price is established for every operation from the biggest to the smallest by the use of the stop watch and a bargain is struck between the operator and the employer, usually in the person of the rate fixer.

But no price can be intro- until the operator agrees mutuality must apply.

Once fixed, the time then stands for good unless place in the change takes means, method or material in- volved in the job. Originally piecework was the employers' idea. In fact they forced it in against the oppo- sition of the unions, but the fact that it now gives an ad- vantage to the worker is not a contradiction of this. When the employer forced piecework the worker did not have the basic shop-floor organ- ization to take advantage of what piecework had to offer.

What was the use of the right to refuse a price until an acceptable offer was made if the employer had the power to sack the operator and em- ploy someone who was pre- pared to accept it ? Or if the employer had the power to move men around the factory he wished there as would be no point in fighting for a price anyway, because you might be on different job the next day. During the post-war boom from the late 1940s period, until the early 1960s, a massive growth of shop-floor organiza- tion took place, for example, assembly plants of in the big the motor industry. employers' So, with the right to hire and fire, at least without expensive strikes, gone, and with the shop stewards predominantly in control of the movement between jobs, things were very different.

Then every worker had the actual (not theoretical right to refuse a price and bargain it up until he got something out of it. The result of all this, of course, was rapidly increasing with the piecework wages plants the front runners for everyone else. So the employer is faced with a questionwhat to do.

As a first measure he tries to tighten up on his piecework and PBR schemes by more and better rate fixers and time- and-motion men, but this soon fails in most cases because the workers learn new dodges as fast as they do. The employer then faces the big step. The old system must go and a new one which once again gives him the advantage must be introduced. That sys- tem is Measured-Day Work.

How does a pieceworker improve his wages? PIECEWORK payments are in two parts, firstly the pay- ment for the time for the operation itself, and secondly the 'plus-up' or 'percentage' given for effort put in accord- ing to the opinion of the rate fixer. for increases Negotiations can take place on the time for the job a change whenever place in the means, takes method or material involved.

When this happens in the engineering industry the piece- work agreement between . the - Wor- Transport and General kers' Union and the Engineer- ing Employers' Federation to the gives the advantage worker by the operation of clause five: Available from New Park 'Whenever the material, means or method of produc- tion is changed and the em- ployer desires a modification in price or basic time, the modification shall in no case be such as to effect a reduc- tion in the earnings of the workers concerned This means that a worker is conditions re-timed under where his previous average becomes his new minimum and mutuality must apply. Another way a pieceworker can increase his earnings is by "plus-up', this review of his involves a rate fixer re-observ- ing the job. But by far the most common way by which a pieceworker is by increases his money taking on or 'pulling' more work. Most workers are timed on jobs when they are relatively inexperienced at that particu- lar operation. After he has been doing the job for a period of time a worker gets so used to it that 'spare' time. When he creates the opportunity arises with, for example, an increase in schedule, he can use up this spare time by taking on more work and increase his earnings.

This is the part of the piece- work system which the em- are most hostile to, ployers they call it 'the learning curve'.

The Transitional Programme adopted by the Founding Conference of the Fourth International with the Statutes of the Fourth International • from New Park Publications

WORKERS PRESS

BY

BERNARD

FRANKS

Premium bonus scheme. This Taking all these things to- piecework and gether, and Bloyer, can selves commodities the lives of many are shortened is a payment-by-results scheme as a result. where payments are hased on the saved which is the and that there are changes in It is as simple as this; is it the time better to be subjected to these modes and programmes. biece allowed job and the wages or on work is a system at continualv taken. rising wages. high comparatively actual lime be directly In the motor industry piece- not may mar do cause employers work generally proportional to results intend MDW to be anv better under conditions, normal Multi-factor Thic is nual increases in hourly It ic natural for workers to payments-by-results rale. scheme want an easy tempo of work ahout noul are based on nationally good conditions and addition any wages, but this one e.g. negotiated increases. is only possible more utilization, quality machine mode of production nrocess vied. outout. etc What mean by yOU place under Condard timo seneme A nav nroduction takes mutuality? ment-by-results scheme where need TOr is based on a rate and not for pront, not under ent per unit of work pro- THE TERM 'mutual agree- terms expressed 'mutuality' refers ment' or Time. the incentive primarily to the piecework Whot ic Straight proportional scheme.

bonus system of pay- agreement (in the engineering ment? sustem industry under which tim- where earnings are directly roportiona ings cannot be introduced THE TERM incentive bonus subject to before agreement is reached performance. refers to the form of pay- Donus starting with the operator. ment-by-results system Harnings in this context may This is the strength of the exclude nremilli which payment is based not payments, chitt niecework agreement and what.

on price per piece irrespective mole it co imaortant Under this agreement, if no of time taken as in niece- Geared scheme. where he- work, but on time allowed by-results scheme operator has rate of change of bonus is con- for the job. the stant and the honus tollows revert oney in varn us ways d into which it ey. straioht line thic amounte to work ways which tended below the bonus start- money mut tha hanue content which ing performance, would not listed below: automatically restricts hia are about a third of the former mutuality, there- The term be applied fore, cannot simply to anuthing which happens to recult from discussions amongst negotiators. To or to lemand mutuality, in the cas productivity swindle The employers he hanny to agree to this typi essence of pro- Thal whole ductivity. job Measured-Day etc.

LEON

TAT.n1,

TWO

rid of the real mutuality get the piecework agreement. articles

TROTSKY

The heads are that by taCi nodded around conterence after de- tanle trick sonihad in lator coptione of thic mean mutuality, but more Trade unions in the compromise traval. Does this mean that you support piecework as such? and syndicalism •

PIECEWORK

well as - as Work- is Measured-Day hantal cuctom of ayaloitation

AVAILABLE FROM:

-and we don't support it for

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS,

that

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many factories workers the limits of are driven Wednesday, May 27, 1970 bogus bonus study or activity sampling can schemes give zero pay at zero pertor- In had the woes ayers. be used to establish, by nego- mance. words Bonus navment-ov- being scheme the amount or erort emboared di c which have change earnings rises as in one PI and its conversion aescribe scueues the results achieved rise. Earn- into money. nothing more to do with bonus for example, that than the man in the moon.

this context may Ines worth and the Many job-evaluation systems cluce overume premium Day- have bogus bonus clauses offer- amount of PI is based on shift allowance, ments, etc. small amount a very Stabilized scheme. A form of output in units or producuor cash for a very large reduction where the rate hased on inaca workers constant, or groups of workers. in manning levels Measured-Day Such a Work schemes which set Day some bonus ana une direct incentive which straight line which. if extended would provide scheme he ow the bonus starting Der- continual formance, give some opportunity for would ine pay at zero performance. negotiations over earnines anu.

Decelerating premium A pay- ment-by-results scheme where in rate the results achieved talls types of payment-by-results bonus scheme taree rise. Earnings in this context may exclude overume Dre- mium payments, shifts allow- ances, are the basic forms These of (based on payment Institution British Standard definitions) of which there are

PROGRESSIVE

many variations. Bet they all rest on the principle hours allowed from which the hours actually taken are subtracted giving an hours saved figure. This figure 1s then taken as a bercentact ot the hours allower and this gives what is usually called the Percentane in turn, is applied to a conversion laclor (usually l ine ror or a welenune scale) which gives an ennancea per centage figure. The enhanced ercentage is then applied to the base rate Example : Time Allowed 100 hours 40 hours Time Taker 60 hours lime Davea rrom InIs. percentase achieved' is bu per cent. AeT application the weighting seale this bot 125 ane Canted ment for achieving any per- percentage given effective trade union thing which pre- workers particular ormance The irst Ine should look for when consider- determined level, method of analysis usea is al use secondary consideration. ing incentive schemes is now directiv 1s entort renected word bonus as a contence earnings? trick. What are the main advan- There number are of incentive tages the employers can pull strings Are there types or bonus schemes to workers? order earnings keep which tie time workers' down. The most usual is on the earnings to pieceworkers' FIRST and foremost they re- weenune scare itsell. wien tain the right of full collec- earnings ? can either be in a straignt une tive bargaining at all levels.

or curve various degrees YES, THESE systems (some- (see dia rant, bose. Ac changes take niace and the the times called supplementry arise, workers can schemes obviously bonuses) are often ap- 1S renegotiate at lieu which celerating bonus plan level over plied to skilled sections.

money ShOD levels out bonus earnings the Continual bargaining whiche of 1l 15 precisely They are a niener inev go. the very onna torm For example: of payment and provide pro- employers are concerned about.

wages 500°r from 95- The Prices cent increase. andi incomes the ratio but Board calls it wage drift and cent= ldi It needs to be al- 5 per cent increase, it clear that traditional trom s. one. cent=ld and 5 schemes are respon- most lov per cent 125-530 incentive cent from sible lor cent incentive schemes Are saying that you seconov This is the most usual genuine Incentive are subect to the mutuanty fall should the piecework The should be de- workers

JOOK

agreement. One other time allowed for the job can- torm orincertive not be Te neCes forced in it must system be the Pertormance agreed' Indicator (PI) unit of effort.

nutually with YES, the main pre-occupa- con- operator operalors tion of the employer is to get Could you give some cerned. rid of incentive bonus along examples of a work-study method being used to fix that all Are you saying with piecework. schemes incentive are a nrice for a iob under These systems should be de- good things? centive bonus (PBR) ? fended at all costs. re- YES, ONE example should NO, YOU must apply the emplovers can test I have outlined above be enough. ated graded systems, they will along Most forms of work analysis 1.e., is there a direct relation- the road to effective wage cut- can be used to fix bonus pay- ship between bonus earned ments based on and effort put in? The third part in this series effort. Under this scheme method of will appear next Wednesday.

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Swee 12 midnight: THE YOUNG APPROACH. Peter Taylor talks to Andy Allan.

Wednesday, May 27, 1970 THE PICTURE of the British workers so dearly bred and so expensively fostered by the British bourgeoisie and its middle-class stooges is of a good-hearted, rough, ignorant, intellectual-hating, cynical, cheerful, beer-swill- ing, sports-following lout, with a nagging wife and noisy aggressive children. of the problems in But one trying to hold a class in bondage with a false consciousness is that the reality won't go away.

It may be possible to promote newspapers, the fantasy in 1n television and at the cinema, it be possible to pervert may even all institutional education and learning into giant lies, but every hour, of day, millions every workers and their families live the truth. Our task is the con- sciousness of truth. At the mass meetings of the Pilkington workers last week, it was impossible to miss the hos- tility to the reporters and photo- graphers of the capitalist press and television. If one stood up and blocked the view, he was roundly told to get down--and he got down.

But it was also impossible to and distortions miss the lies which were still published by these men and their masters, and the complete lack of skill in dealing with them at press conference. Platitudes They not be under- must estimated; they are practiced in their perversions, they are well paid for their pious platitudes and witch-hunting inanities. They too are part of the truth of the Tory capitalist class.

And as the class confrontations become sharper and starker, as the election period sees an artificial truth in the reactions of the employers and govern- so another great British ment, institution is being fully mobil- ized for its soothing, quieting and distracting effects—the great god sport. What a mighty deity it has become! From the playing fields of Eton to the big business of competitive sport is a tiny step.

The sideshow around the now- cancelled S African cricket tour, the enormous competitive expen- ditures by BBC and Tv in promoting and covering the coming World Cup contest (70 hours

BBC,

nearly on on ITV), 'the working man's beer, fags-and football'; these are all part of the same social order. the same They all represent interests, the same attempts to in control by exploiting continue any genuine interest or enthu- siasm, any real skill or achieve- of ment, for the continuation capitalist hegemony over all sides of life. Bishop of Woolwich (ex- The Sir Edward BOYLE captain of England's cricket Sir David Sheppard), team, Boyle (peddled as the Edward liberal of the new Toryism), both of the Fair Cricket Campaign, and the host of revisionists, radicals and plain reactionaries who surround and support them, been elevated have as champions of anti-apartheid and racial integration. Threats Meanwhile the rest of the Tory oute ate is or Freedom. of Party has made out of the the Cricket Council to play a game with whoever it chooses over the domination by and unruly elements of the sane and reasonable conduct of affairs.

It's all been marvellous fuel punitive, their repressive, to retributive campaign for the elec- tion. And make no mistake the repression, the punishment and the retribution are all being pre- pared not for the Rt Rev David Sheppard, not for the civilized Edward Boyle, but for the work- ing class. The annual conference of the Police Federation last week made clear its hostility to the enorm- ous extra production of counter- revolution expected of them in protecting the representatives of colonial exploitation whilst they played cricket. Play tul callen ok e to By Frank Cartwright BOBBY CHARLTON: Top player in England's World Cup team demonstrates his skill Back in Britain the England chance to weathe supportet the football team's record made num- calling tour police the charts, Royal after months of public relations ber one Television Gala Performance for politics. the Queen and the Duke was The whole charade also gave of British Isles staged *in aid black nationalist the govern- participating the ments of African countries countries and Commonwealth Games splendid confuse opportunity Heath, Sir Edward Boyle's leader, their peoples. bit by allowing continued to imply by his silence "take a stand' them apparently to that one apartheid of the first jobs any in boycotting against will be Tary government the Edinburgh Commonwealth new with the Mr settlement same Games. Smith. It's cricket all right. week, Meanwhile, in the same President Banda of Malawi re- ceived an official visit from the Hobby apartheid, chief of Africa's Vorster, and had Heath appeared amicable discussions about future Mr also on television

(BBC-1,

May 24) in collaborations. 'Omnibus', talking about his Vorster then passed straight on other hobby, music. Rhodesia and to Ian Smith forward to Mr We all look spent pleasant sporting hours the Royal Salisbury Wilson's in the at struggle of the television image- Golf Club. ... Well played sir! LIKE the MCC committee which appoints the Cricket its members Council, are just a bunch of ordinary chaps. C. (Billy) Griffith, Mr of the MČC, went to Secretary Dulwich College and Pembroke Cambridge. Mr G. O. Ales Treasurer, at Eton Allen, was and Trinity. Another committee member, Sir Lieutenant-General Oliver was president of the Old Leese. Etonians' Association few years ago. If anyone tells that the you

MCC

Old is run by stonians can inform them that Lord

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Portal, one-time chairman of the Corporation, Aircraft British of Barclays Bank, was director So there! Winchester. at Sir Cyril Hawker is to be the next president of the MCC and chairman of the Cricket Council.

the projected game with S He chairman of the also Africa. Standard Bank, Stand parBat company While he was released by a Bank of the fellow fieldsman, the batsmen Africa. The bank largest in ran four. branches Africa, it has also Angola and Mozam- Rhodesia, When bique. Crawley is another Mr Aidan sportsman on the Cricket Coun- cil. He also chairman, of Lon- the 1s Weekend TV. don He used to be a Labour MP the educated few at police -one of Harrow-and a favourite of Mr Attlee. Anyway, he's a Tory now. went So the national sport appears to be in the hands of quite wide cross-section of the popula- tion. On Sports Report. Chasing ball the boundary last to Thursday, Nottinghamshire strike stopped Brian Bolus batsman it just inside the ropes. At the he became tangled same time, for in the harhed wire nut un to

WHEN

resolution calling keep away demonstrators at have the right to police to

WORKERS PRESS

'It may not be the greatest show on earth. But for sheer panache there has been little to rival British League soccer since they closed down music halls . ('Financial Times', April 29, 1970) 1nat way callea unbuyabit harmony group avoid shots of their ootbalers continues to De cor Canners. arauvery saort ana lei go nownere nical World Cup value. his George beyond Promotion Moore selevision meteor Dut legend. the She same te aures are also alnerence Illass Phe sea ho pound away through into this tort of compay The amount going company pro Europe and throughout stasoll. lave riser Nor Clarke that whilst America. the fact per for Dought rebling i in the Booming next ten years. £250,00, club includes pre erginisk malenie sheet! They Rothman's are milarly whilst clubs are being nas bere swam ped kich tovitian weeks tournament previous racing, its big interest in motor games, —new games. Dest goals, best saves, best sportsunall, the England Lealll, cothes and en so, that controver e vI course It wıl dil about. system

VORSTER

extravaganzas

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But like many other epics, it hugely verspent golf are forced to raise the ticket prices involvement in imes'. Anml 29. 19/0 next season they are also turning examples. ..more and more capitalist ndustries for support. enterprises. ne sulf betn And just that suits industrv year The exploitation nne

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reater o the. with a spienala means lor oie business for mergers to promote its products, to enter- agricultural business, backs urther ne tarmer sport ot norse trais. Pior Serveen 1938 and 1900al the maintenance and 196ocia- Whitbread ana bass comparatively sums. oldest some of tne direest anal tokesman there put it in a mut.

by sponsaries. They are le lobater matches in the year. no longer compares. television As top advertise Football is a rassionate hobby with their names attached.

earn week • Moore, Geolt orners, uke the Llan- last week ine chalrman conference auano wien callect. strike resolution, never grant "rarilament us inis, ana we shout great lowering the publicy a great majoriy of Tony follows the banker Commonwealth De- Corporation (salary: leading Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marcher- -until the as Her Majesty" hand mas of e e (no Baron) once Ine cha Colonial tre Movement At the Commonwealth Corporation, follow in illustrious foot- surpo. Since 164, bord Homis ben Police struck in 1918 for union recognition.

Erike Federation o e Seral of Me ermy, as ap- weet's General Army, 'or Police. pointed Commissioner Landudno. was overwnem- As a saliere sad ingry aereatea. Wales Vau-Mau emergency While action in i9l1, When to knock® equipment Churchill miners in had sent the was in treland, dighting the IRA were Macready forbade any police- to the state machine Bill was plot thou parli melts in colonial invest- 1918, wasn't always like that. In ana d chato the arian ent 5. ilegal. was Evelyn massive strike of police making, FOr Lord former Barine. ord suring fass London, plea egust 1, 1919 the irst Lord Cromer, heart ruling class into ine •Called But, altnouen une som liverpo Bros had played formed intimidation had donne leading bart the war, against the delay in rais- which entangled ervant of the Ine nominally a ng pay servant of Only 1,083 CAme losing all pen- the Egyptian de the interes. union smasnea. cunning, granted the pay increase the shares in the became passive canal sell his capitalist to the British gov state they are ana ser to work lo break the

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Top left: CALLAGHAN calling off Top right:

HEATH

the tour.

MASS

MEETING -

talking about music. Above:

PILKINGTON

hostility to reporters and photographers of the capitalist press.

customers.' Times' of football in the 'Black Dwarf' (Financial March 24, 1970.) reached very It is also the hobby of a large One ordinary conclusions. was number of car-building, car- that football really belongs buying, boss-hating workers and but that the working class, Watney's after persuaded the sadly it does face the Football Association to accept nasty penetration of big com- Ford's weren't far mercialism. their money, behind with its £100,000 prize Another revelation was that contest. football is good for the class A good work-out at the match of because it gives experience for its workers has always been Revisionism street fighting! a highly-prized safety valve to the but may say, gone crazy, you capitalist class. no such thing. The brighter the match the Any medicine such middle- more steam is let off, so the argu- class muddleheads are serving ment runs. for the working class, under the 'Beer, fags and football are usual guise that it's 'good for us' certainly part of the same thing.

bound to have all 1S the usual side effects. And nasty emend

CURIOUS FOOTNOTE:

their patronizing 'analysis' is cer- A recent 'tentative analysis' tainly sickening.

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More aid for S AFRICAN businessmen are the Portu- currentiy ViSiting guese Angola increased be two countries. visiting of Lcall. ing W German aally DaDers. They are making a tour al ot the Tascist following Portuguese a similar tour of Mozambique . these spokesmen for centres' but al Ine liberanon Portu. Wal against colonialism continues guese unanted Portugal' "Radio Hree centra and industrial power of Portu guese colonlansm is located. Aresent the patriotic forces control a third of the Angola territory of will Others come to the and economic THE AGREEMENT put already forward by the Doxford it clear that the accus

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*White Africa' willbe and Sunderland shipbuild- ol the main concerns or 1or

CORRESPONDENT

ing group on Wearside re- toreen Dollcy british anor must give its flects a real determination full support to those heroic- ally the ally' of the employers to make of British eye movements must be made the workers pay for the with any particular task.

WEATHER

now racking the

CISS

there are two types; еує London area, SE and central shipbuilding industry. and eye focus, and trave are issued both soutnern England. r andi Involved here is a pro- categories. Midlands' OrV sunny. Moderate. westerly winds. posal to boost This is 'product- Warm. Max. nol all exaggeraton checked Channel Islands, SW England: ivity' i.e. profits, by intro- which Moderate, ducing the most up-to-date on pre-deter• vinds. Warm. Max. motion systems of working yet mined systems (PMTS), which occa- Wildl

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devised. studv methods like MTM are called. Workers would be exnected winas. Ivormal. Viax. non-stop through

TUSO

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every operation and to England: central northern from job betweer rain hey Coucy occasional che. And this is only the employers hoved that beginning! coming dry with of wages the rest of the terms emphasizing the question periods. Fresh westerly winds The section on 'wage rates' 18C (64F), indicates that this agreem would the introduction by unnoticed ecoming However, , they have not got eriod! MTM) during the nevt tu away with it winds. Warm. Max. strong, yeals. (61F). This has been met in Sun- Northern Ire- Glasgow official ared.

MOVEMENTS

electricians, land. couay. occasional rain.

and becoming orienter wiln sunny Is noW

MTM

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competitive the steps productivity liticase also our intenuon estab isa continuite employment for a stabilized labour force in the group shipards essential that it is organized in such a way that it can be Maximum davanlace concerned an el that Din- optimum pro- orances duction are eliminated. 'It is also necessary to re- or anize The wies • be tur more readily understood will provide Concerta allu lall wage lor every Job done order to get this 'stabi- we are absolutely convinced that our circulation lized' labour force. Doxiora can be considerably increased over the next three Have lala nave government appealed election weeks. continue to blatintey ese and You have the opportunity to Introduce new readers continue to blatantly cooters to agree to car by using our special election offer of 18 issues by post these commencing June 1 for 15s.

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diverted to communal bitter- and they shall render

DOCTORS

and strife When holding, Richard etc., Social falsę confidenc to reduce services walline comfort surveying th ume dna promote emcienci he British Medical results must The bove unions (AUEFW) ar considerable con lo aiscuss coctors •Day unce. tally the Commons last night.

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will avail- aDOuL Lne mealumanu abantor maintenande ions ne move Torowee a warn. term enrects ols unnabov ing by the BMA that it would history.' plant maintenance anywher ships sick on des too patient it ins the yards notes patients if thi ernment did not publish

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accessal. and the should® drec Yard the Asse 'ation. interim today s unancial be recaraca statement British-Ley. Irom report on pay pade or gerto section ne particular • territory land will be expected to throw some light on the background

ULSTER MINISTER'S

a trade. that Scottish will Ulster Minister, D) Interchangeability rinance be Bathgate may to accepted where appro- Mr have close. warned Herbert

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rate ton volves requirements in his stormont buagel speech This yesterday changiniong- ulster nad another mente all stand to lose if our short-term basis according Street, London wasted in Suitable mencs... Trainine less damage and our energies or re-training will be pro-

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iced bit by act and inter on to use work id and want Do i Pru and ember • union officials Pipe individual or individuals 500 str memt remained oron to introduce an ceding syse scheme sint employment in Sulle mand any talk implemented is nothing more than Scabbing cochse stat of the agreement, but years hol. Rehearsal the following clause: Food in ordel strikers for right- go back with union wing coup no the full and 1 carting deal drive will be made to citend

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this therefer possibl cal social rigis which pres SIX HUNDRED workers best send plants and the or revolutions provide maxim returned to their jobs at nano betray set detence, Aberdeenshire's Peterhead Crosse and Blackwell the mains factory yesterday with virtually nothing gained out

NO ALTERNATIVE

from their seven-week-long terrorism. strike for a closed shop.

Policy Dilemma no alternative but Stay to yet an is here dictators p. 1967040 manner of assurances Once again the road to the In the face of mortal dange Manly strikers a substantiad is revealed in al *cial stoppanes and oun immediate Cyprus, the streate to build Scottish Trades a struggle for power. tave of the dictators with is also made freeze principle make ho doves for ill 'Compromise Hond turned to adds S. 2.

allianceinstat • described as a desperate

TEET

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simulated by the ne wals billion con homerate, Lv. Anxiety on i he case me a added to their capital es Or povite re all the other partie the election independ- Hostility and prepare hopeful demandiniten eased cola aral influenced hei Eire rent strike the management tas proposed implemented or by threatene THE IRISH National structing them ney empt Do gener ember dri menses fr salesired not been called out lion in support of the Sundayas executive meetier Claims demandin direc- for the " National Executive'. Shiple i Races which lead workind ndancies what he come still The entire labour

CAMPAIGN

Trades ign weard sel On DOL. ofer trades and yarde Make the Tories pay for the crisis. productivity deployment and northe tac increase wit ror the bast Allian et i tne All 1raaes union:

ITALIAN CP

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Party has converse on sot invasichet bụt that "corrected' they meeting Secreear in March 1968 'Discretion' contradicted by wai hand. ers on the other v nence and shoulder decades of class collaboration Down and down plunge share prices Ratio Last decade. per ceet still further powers by a huge $18,000.

Intensity nares and intensil mo worldwide in prosal and ec Wednesday, May 27, 1970 Stalinist moves behind

N.A.T.O.

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BY A

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NATO Foreign Ministers began their two-day meet ing in Rome yesterday to consider soviet and wast European proposals for a mutual allance to replace

NATO

Warsaw and the Pact. forward the openin salines forces the to i tong go to in Brandt and Stoph. Pact The Bonn Cabinet is meet To a sea on the en a proposal widen d taken Brand- any other Errore Overshadow overshadow strate purst she ba socalled Played off roe capite fr no be played with the and an ine in the wantin man european worker, l Ived in a revoli he coming elec "Star'

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painer as Spain, i economie relationication And wet out dictat som lished y ment te Borishona hite all or steam, is determined proliferating links betwe most reactionary and murde o break the sie a e brike of Soviet leader Pod Star