Workers Press no. 177

Union 'reform' and Common Market Wilson's retreat strengthens Tories de ationalization INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATUR HAROLD WILSON'S 2,000-word statement on industrial relations at his London news con- ference yesterday was less a broadside against the Tories than a plea for recognition of services rendered to the employers.

Like the Labour leadership's policy on the Common Market, about which the prospective candidate for Huyton also had something to say, this plea lends weight to the warning issued in yesterday's Workers Press. against complacency about a Labour election victory. Some employers, Courtauld's. Lord Kearton Meeting the made clear Monday on

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•Election night's people... Panorama', favour Labour precisely return without because the party's hand- in-glove relations with the trade union • bureaucracy enable it to fool some of sections organized

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ted Moles s labour some of the time. 'Red mention banal But hard-line financiers and tudes of a legion in citate hady triahtener Wilson candidates Harold by the growing rift between carried off his Mondav even union officialdom and ing tour London con chituencies wITh 11S113? stance anti-working tough brazen self-confidence, and class contrived to hedge on almost the vital issues posed in For the election. tworking. and winn class voters, He arrived 45 minutes late between Heath and leas committee aloen to a hairbread pared a ready have Deen rooms to a mixed reception.

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the naur nas become already heckled Mrs le leger very tine and stretched in. she tried Street butside. to deed. meeting in the "Trick' Police stopped the meeting 'You can't hold a political meeting here. Tories of en- Accusing the dangerinte danger of that from tOr pectoral Dur Wilson. whole sustem relationship which Most of his speech from both sides of in- decrepit the committee-room their lives balcony an ex- concisted claimad change of banter with some in the mode vocal hecklers yesterudy perpetuate a con- sought to trick hidence on count. He did make one reference riahtly distured about eVI- dence of irresponsibility It's a higher the shop floor. were putting forward see. a bad problem from the Con- aniversal panacea a which, servalves do were not momma of legalistic ns, wound to hand it back to them. Tar Tron As he moved off, Inter- trial relauons, them immeasurably national Marxist Group mem- legislation Conservative bers distributed SIX-WeeT -00 free conies of 'Red Mole' to would make an agreement el side laid the crowd. farperhie it neither Unemployment? 'We've had it down on signing that it should atar more "But Barbara Castle's Bill, he for donkey's years,' deputy refined group gathered inside the headquarters, where Wil- Labour leader George Brown emphasized already boosted the local candi- ally provided said at a meeting in Aylesbury date Ben Whittaker both during his whistle-stop tour will be Hampstead, sides agree they should be From Wilson on Monday. Under Labour, he preferably "Can someone. don he was hit by a youn of Conserva- claimed, this was due to the not the society Lawyers where niease explall. strengthening of the economy what is the difference between Tory egg which would soon result in a "enforceable it nota His, ast stone h or the han enforceabl North lowering unemployment. of lisagrees"1 1,000 audience or over Pressed what if any Time. greeted this with some scep- was the difference, Wilson incoherentlv about shouted ticism.

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/ TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 177 • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1970

BY DAVID MAUDE

Wilson (above left) answers hecklers from a balcony Camden on Monday night. With him were Mrs Lena Jeger, the local candidate, and his wife. George Brown (below left) was out on the hustings in Aylesbury on Monday lunchtime.

Some of the law and order ladies who attended Duncan Sandys' Streatham, London, meeting on Monday night are seen above right. Below right: Sandys makes a point at his meeting. By our science correspondent TAR TWO Coviet cosmonants rested aboard the So 190 spacecraft their successfully completed. The Soviet news azene said that the Nikolayev, Andrian mission commanue. flight ana entineer devastvanov -would carry ou an evtensive scientine researci nrogramme concitions colitary orbitall tight near-earth orbit. This indicate appears will that no other snacectati cont ance October's launchings three Soyuz craft orbited to- record of seven astronauts Although leading Soviet scientists have stated that moon not the Dri the gramme, man * Which A 750-STRONG commando

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to live for auts will be do arrived in Belfast yesterday Such a constructio long would to begin a two-month emerg- construction withdrawal of British troops.

only pro- make possible ency tour of duty, covering Dollied! crisis renect landedi experiments antaide the run-up to the General atmosphere, but the hostility or ine tish work.

tha paths also planator for launching ino class to the imneralist. Election and the Protestant imposed partition-a hostility flights celebrations on July 12. which now threatens to ex- moon blode into conflict employing useable shuttles. mber of troops nUnster the South as well as in Ulster.

troops number of han 8.000 and wi to more he susanta cannot troons araaruin ketact in the event of 'trouble'. In the South premier Jack increasing for f liberalization' before th FEARS are issued a challenge unch 1968 Soviet invasiot Alexander Dubcek. who left Mr Kevin poland. visit his eideri Dubcek left Ankara air- ministerial nost resigned his port in air over the sacking of ministers Haughey reported and Blaney for gun-running. have landed him in Buda pest. Lynch said in Dublin yes- The Czecho- has dennsed Hip not heen sear doyal Party terdav that oniy a withdrawal leader. nou Czechosloval ia. though Party from the suspended there reports memora . that the parliamentary Dartv could officially in charge was taken there by car appear bring government Czech Party collapse. been ommission up past ex-ministers The haue "betrayal' which activities. Lynch time new Ulster Catholics and cote a move to tri Thie sa me levelled at Blaney demanded the offences' during the period slanders were The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

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'WE WILL introduce further competition in several areas, said Tory leader Edward Heath at his London news con- ference yesterday. his Questioned about Monday night pledge that Labour's national- ports ization Bill would 'never see the light of day again', Heath reiterated the two main planks of his party's attack on the nationalized industries. • 'They would have to themselves more elicient the nartv's he said. cur as ver bose manifesto hac will chatner the in the public companies.) • First prioritv on assistance go sect Heath. Investmen Thronen aHowances reductions savc the manitasto.l Heath would not be draw into citing checine inaustridd where the Tories would favour *jolly good riddance' words about the Ports Bill Monday night - national ization.

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meetings, fellows don' works' ASW Hall, holding 11 D their hande 53 Reparlor But if they got Speaker: Tom Kemp home and told with thait they would have Admission Is demonstrations. Mr Sandys proposed recens ner recent notorinis Arench make more easy to hold the demon- responsible damage and there es the Then cause like the canniers and statuen Here we have to amend the On the immigentine reached his Colonial Secretary most heart-breaking colored closest friends were called him by I BETWEEN NOW and the general his first plantion tone of thanconde nendle voung and old introduced to name willne manyfor tha firet timo Not same become acquainted with the revolu- It la vitol that than tionary Marxist point of view touching letter We have made extensive plans in order to do this. They trans Birmingham include Dobricknar asked him to and Display advertising For break into

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workers press Union reform' and Common Market Wilson's retreat strengthens Tories ationaliation INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATUR HAROLD WILSON'S 2,000-word statement on industrial relations at his London news con- ference yesterday was less a broadside against the Tories than a plea for recognition of services rendered to the employers.

Like the Labour leadership's policy on the Common Market, about which the prospective candidate for Huyton also had something to say, this plea lends weight to the warning issued in yesterday's Workers Press. against complacency about a Labour election victory. Some employers, Courtauld's. Lord Kearton clear Monday made

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'Election night's Panorama', favour Labour precisely without because the party's hand- in-glove relations with the trade union bureaucracy enable it to fool come of sections organized

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Tory eggs and labour some of the time. revisionist 'Red Moles not mention the hana! plati australists, ba fiy rightened tudes of a legion Labour industrialists, candidates by the growing rift between carried officialdom of Union anel oTe. vous v less multant workers. stituencies want a tough anti-working. self-confidence, blazen class stance and by hedge on almost contrived to Tory government. anne vital issues boseo in tor millions working. the election class voters, the differences Heath and Wilson already Lena Jeger's and Pancras alown to a hairbreadthared committee rooms to a mixed reception Red Mole ing

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whole Wilson. noses. system which industrial relationship Most of his speech from wise men on both sides ol in the committee room dustry have given their lives balcony consisted ex. erdding that Wilson claimed change ot hanter with they had the vocal more hecklers a con- sought to in the crowd. fidence disturbed about He did mare one reterence a lot higher than any however: dence of Irresoons DIlLy It's a lot higher the shon foor'. * the con want to They were 'putting forward he anisers universal panacea a so hand it back to tom. going proposals which far from mproving indus make relations, As he moved off, Inter- trial them immeasurably national Marxist Group mem- legislation six-week-old conservalve Ders orstrouted would land free conies of 'Red Mole' to make an aereement forraable if neither the crowd. side Unemployment? 'We've had it down on signing that it should But Barbara Castle's Bill, he In Hamostead. a far more for donkey's years, deputy refined group gathered inside Labour leader George Brown the headquarters, where Wil- emphasized already "ChArinc. son the local candi- ally provided agreements said at a meeting in Aylesbur date Ben enforceable both during his whistle-stop tour be Hampstead, sides agree they should be From Wilson on Monday. Under Labour, he referabl whistled rapidly through Hen- 'Can of Conserva claimed, this was due to the not the somery he was hit by a Young explain where Lawyers, nease strengthening of the economy what is the difference between which would soon result in a sides a "enforceable agree" and "enforceable lowering of unemployment. side disagrees"? unless one 1,000 audience of over was the diference, Pressed whot if an greeted this with some scep- Wilson incoherently ticism.

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'WE WILL introduce further competition in several areas, said Tory leader Edward Heath at his London news con- ference yesterday. his guestioner Monday night pledge that Labour S ports nationa • ization Bill would 'never see the light or day again.

Heath reiterated the two main planks or his party attack on the nationalized Industries 1s Prate cos deat encourage reductions, says the manifesto.) says the Heath would not be drawn Wilson (above left) answers beckiers Irom a balcony In ravour Many close friends Camden on Monday night. With him were Mrs Lena Jeger Mond al Ports Bill - to nationar are coloured' - Sandys the loca candidate and his wite. George brown ‹below lelt) was out on the hustings in Aylesbury on Monday lunchtime.

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IN EXAMINING the various fo at the present time we must t we are discussing the aspec in the modern economic cont in particular through the vehic Any individual aspect-the sampling say—may already be system which is warking to the However we must always application of such systems the working class in forcing c and not from some inherently themselves. The present use of these and so-called incentive scheme give 100 per cent control to ma To be clear on this most that there are two entirely diffi systems of work analysis can b Firstly, and this is the m used in conjunction with fixec evaluation to fix the grade diff introduced, and afterwards to in a maximum effort (per shif ounce of effort is 'productive' a minimum. Under these conditions al to maximize exploitation down because realistic collecti outside of the productivity swin But secondly, establish traditional incentive | systems) schemes based on | The first advantage that of payment is that being dire the piecework agreement anc Q. What is work study? It is a method used by the A. employers to get more output from a worker by directly in- tensifying his labour. The methods used by a worker do- ing a job, the actual motions that he makes, and the times taken for each motion are all with a stopwatch measured and a ruler. The examination of methods, actions, etc., is called method study, and the examination of the times for each action 1s called either time study or work measurement. On the basis of these proposals are measurements put forward for new systems is of working which, it claimed, will cut out all 'wasted' movement and all 'wasted' time. Work study is often first introduced by outside consult- ants, but in most cases it is the aim of managements to set up a permanent work-study department. Often the two sections of work study are introduced separately, first method study study. While one then time reason for this may be that the work in question is too badly organized to be timed straight away, it is also true that this is a method the employers use to introduce work study gradu- ally, in stages, to a group of violently . workers who are opposed to the use of the stop- watch. Q. What are the advant- ages of work study for the employer? A. It would be very wrong in fact very dangerous, for any work worker to think that study is only a question of speed-up. Within productivity deals time-and-motion methods are closely bound up with disciplining measures aimed at giving the employers a hire- and-fire stranglehold over the labour force. There are at least seven basic advantages which an employer looks for when operating a work study system.

These are: 1. To lay down the amount of work a worker must do in each second of the working day. Times for jobs are worked out to a hundredth of a minute and some methods even include times for eye movement and eye focusing. the organized 2. To break strength of the total labour force in an enterprise. This can be done for example by eliminating time for shop meetings, by moving out and moving on powerful groups who have led of workers struggles in the past, and by 'proving' that a shop steward is bad at his job so that he for can be sacked "bad workmanship'. At the same time work study sets out to divide workers into those above 'standard' and to turn fast those below, against slow, young against old, men against women, day workers against shift-workers and so on. The job specification sheet in giving to the worker a list of the actions he must make is also giving the employer com- plete control of the workers' movements at any time of the day. The worker is expected to answer on his time sheet for 'unauthorized movements'.

3. To fix manning levels. On the basis of the speed-up the same work to be done with fewer workers so en- abling a cut in the labour force. 4. To prove ('scientifically') the need to install any methods which will help to increase profits-elimination of tea breaks, introduction analysis being usec • ine various torms or work aspects rough the vehicle of the productivity deal.

than production ine presses it is started work employers now seek to intesse job es atation.

s working to the operatives' advantag the feb takes sce and is on the be gain is AIsO, InIs mutations on tne too or ine lis for abolition if the employers have their way.

analysis may o some methods o some inherently 'good aspects of the systems timinos can be ootained i they are applied •v une biece. wnere stewards and workers are them keep applied bonus system same systems incentive schemes is to destroy this strength ar with the object o geducing manning levels would be dynamite.

gradea ana evaluated ent control to management.

or andrie most imnortant guestion we must sa two entirely differel purposes for which various cientific or not k analysis can be use a fixed situation. ration in the rada of graded systems of be which abstracts is oradeo svstems ix the grade differentials when such systems are operator puts insure mat eacn system or work analysis call de appied " t is productive, sad t therefore essential, se conditions all forms of job It is extremely important that this is understood wher used considering work-study any particular work-stuay system. extreme importe it most are had so we o the various methods is essential i workers are to avola ine noose. It is iust a question of priority and perspective of shift working revised shifts, of flexibility, and Use of mobility. introducuon grading system, and so 5. To bring about closures. li To these people a worker wo oftender who have asked for a pay in- the basis crease are told that a consult- more than a machine able ant team will be brought in to to generate a given energy out- cide the introduction increase put and capable certain basic motions large -like cogs close entire factories, docks, Heast paying a which can future reference. for the in- To install lact at payment systalls slat the has scheme them, motions accepted J1ke new Nocere Donus. and human Measure swan WOrk alreday been accraca ana une Stopping To the employer blow

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'rationalize' work and any connection has with system called O&M? Organization and Methods (0 & M) is a particular type of method study used mainy in offices so examine can general heading method study. 100 Before any modernization or 90 of work can be carried employer some form rationalizatio 55 process has to take place.

580 20 50 10 Often the existing methods of work have been fixed basis r. To ble and pace 70 20 30- stopwatch state of affairs would SimDly speea cnaos. brobaby encing With more 60 40 workers more nroducing muddle at greater speed 50 Method stuev is the examin.

ation and recording of existing methods working with methods. taining new While true that thic type of survey may bring some warang as ut he dial of a work-study stopwatch is divided Int or its, not into seconds. This gives a much finer unit (3, carrying gear and and allows all calculations to be quantities decimals. materials. must remem- Also, the stopwatch is bered at all times Weep hand flicks back to zero for instant resuse.

and effort saved woe, int he worker time used to izatio machi at mad com eventually be reduced, and so HOle machinery introduced, ume saved work puters Various terms and phrases (b) Method study aims at alongside rom traditional payment sys- turning all work into a Uscu imply that ensure an absorute manum suitable this is no different from or workers ori Tue 10D. can lead to mass sackings previous agreements. able cent to yu per ot the Also, the work-study experts control measures. labour force, depending holly and in musia the level undertaken. example of bow method •. Can are taught how give with the кеер relatons How these study sets about stewards and the workers com methods organizing place Diete v renal wnie umine Is is relate told work? are told chatting about football, cricket, Very rarely are employers recent television programmes, We can use method study applied to an office as an in a strong enougn posidon these while torce systems Througt whatever the workers Work studbeep exp Work think system Geary, charts, symbols, etc., described Usually they have to work his confidence trick. They study applied to building' ex- are equally applied to the scheme's man. plains the need for this atti- building Jes.

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study. lenged chould neleve that with a vent enables all work to be Gone the the work-study officer has their ation from work process. effort and in any flow charts drawn case nothing allowed are which fixed by naterials easily not mutual greement persistently processed approach officials and sincere Lianase their Wil Will co-operanon, which is essential to success.

Very often the system ade further he coultante String diagrams are crept in on the basis of a ase constructed. 'feasibility study'. workers made aDoul consullalls

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These are scale drawings of a working area—a small office for example-on which string is stretched and pinned out to distances walked represent during a part of the day. The method study experts then try to work out how to re-arrange the workplace so as to mini- mize these distances, i.e. re- duce the length of the string on the diagram. At a later stage process charts are made up. These reflect the arm, hand and finger movements made by a worker during a given oper- ation. After close analysis of experts will these, the re- arrange the working surface (desk, table top, etc.) so as to cut out all 'wasted' movement.

It is on the basis of this type of saving that a clerk, say, may be told that she has sufficient time to do someone else's job...

as well as her own. For process and other work a set of five study charts symbols are used as a kind of shorthand to represent different activities. Two other systems some- times used in method study are : 1. Micromotion examina- tion. With this a worker is filmed carrying out a particular oper- ation. The film is then exam- ined frame by frame and the movements made in the oper- ation are charted. This system also gives times for the job, as the camera is synchronized with a timer registering to the nearest two- thousandth of a minute. 2. The cyclograph. This is a record of move- ments which is made by the operator wearing a small light attached to his wrist, which appears on a photographic plate as a continuous line.

Q. How does the other half of work study, the timing, operate? A. This is the actual speed- ing up of the worker. With ordinary time study a worker is timed with a stopwatch specific job; while doing a only movements directly con- nected with the job are timed.

Mistakes, rest, or 'abnormal' movements are left out. In this way the times that are for what is are taken known as 'effective working' only. Also the time-and-motion man is not so much concerned with timing a whole job in one go as with its individual parts or 'elements' For example, an electrician being timed putting a socket outlet box on a wall would be timed boring each whole separ- ately. In this way the stop- watch is being clicked on and off all the time. At the same time, the ob- server writes down the "rate' at which he considers the different elements are being carried out (fast, slow, etc.).

Following this, the elements are rated and then strung to- gether to make the 'basic time', fixed allowance is an extra added for rest and contingen- cies and this is the final 'stan- dard time' for the job. The work-study people do not record the workers rest periods because they are not interested in how much rest the operator actually needs.

They have their own list of "scientifically' worked - out tables of how much rest they consider should be allowed in any particular type of work.

One other system we should mention here is 'group capacity assessment'. This is used where the work of two or more • workers is closely connected - a road- digging gang or typists and clerks working together on a single project. In this case the group ac- tivity is timed instead of the individual workers and final recommendations aim at re- ducing the number of workers in the group • while shortening the time for the job they are doing.

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Trailer and tractor outside barn 10ft. from door. 6 3 1 Q. How about giving an example of time study in action? A. Let's take a simple ex- ample of a man bending down to pick up a heavy box and putting it on a bench. During this operation • the worker might have hesitated for a second to note the best way to grasp the box and rested for two seconds when the operation was complete.

He might be timed and rated as follows: Operation (elements) Time Bend down 1 second Grasp box 1 second Lift 5 seconds Put down on bench 1 second Total These three 'ineffective' sec- onds would not be recorded, so this task would be timed at eight seconds instead of the 1l seconds it really took.

Next, the elements are rated. In the bend down move- ment the one stands because in the opinion of the observer the worker moved at standard speed. However, in grasping the box he was considered to be too slow, rating only 90 out of 100. He should have taken one tenth less time i.e. nine- tenths (0.9) of a second, for this movement. Similarly in the 'life' move- ment he should have taken only 4.5 seconds. His put down time was fast and 'normal' time would have been 1.1 seconds. So the basic time for the whole action would be: 1 + 0.9 + 4.5 + 1.1 seconds = 7.5 seconds. 2 308S

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35 Allowing 10 per cent for contingencies and rest the final time is made out to be seconds or a saving of 8.25 2.75 seconds on the actual time (1l seconds) to do the job. saving The equivalent on the entire day would be two hours in an eight-hour day. What is finally arrived at with this sort of system is a whole string impossible of times for jobs which, in con- junction with new machines etc., give the employers a 200 to 300 per cent increase in workers' output while wage ceiling is held down per- manently to a fixed level.

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Back trailer and tractor Into barn and up to bales, tie gate open during day, lift and place bale In one move.

ment. Place accurately to save checking. 0+ Q. Couldn't the workers put pressure on for the jobs to be re-timed if they think those that are given are too fast? A. There's usually no need to put pressure on, the work- study officers actually encour- age workers to ask for re- timing to take place. This is because they know very well that re-timing only follows the same pattern as before - leaving out 'ineffec- Rate per cent 100 90 5 seconds 90 110 8 seconds tive' work, adding the same rest allowance etc. - so the same time for the job will be arrived at. Once re-timing has taken place, however, the time-and- motion men claim that the particular time in question has now been effectively checked so its accuracy can no longer be questioned Q. So the setting of times is a once-and-for-all affair? A. No! The impression, often deliberately given, that the workers are timed and then left alone is completely false.

methods New and new machines are always being brought in and time cutting is a constant factor. Once the work-study men are through the door they are in for good. Wednesday, June 3, 1970 BY

BERNARD

FRANKS

Q. Surely rating is the biggest fraud of all? A. It is. All that it boils down to is the personal opinion of the work-study man of what he thinks is a 'fast', 'slow' or 'average' speed of working. Beneath that friendly chatty exterior he may be privately considering you as a lazy so- and-so and be rating you at 90,80 or 70 per cent accord- ingly. is interesting to know It how exactly these people are trained. The trainee expert is shown films of someone walk- ing at different speeds - at four, five and six miles an hour. After he has seen these films a number of times he is reckoned to have the idea of fixed in the different rates back of his mind. Next, he gets together with other trainees and they go out on the street and watch people walking about. They rate separately each the speed of one particular person then compare notes afterwards. few weeks of this, After a they claim to be able to go on a job and decide whether it is being done fast or slow just by watching it being done.

In fact, this system is SO obviously a fraud that it is now being dropped • by many consultants, or if it is still in use they get in first and tell involved the workers that final times will be fixed 'more scientifically'. Q. Why do they have a rating system anyway? Why don't they just use the stopwatch times? A. Rating is the key factor in actually speeding up opera- tives. With rating they can working at one watch a man speed and because in their opinion he is below standard rate, they can write down a much faster time for the job.

This is why it is a mistake to think that by slowing down when being timed you will end up getting reasonable times.

If you work at three-quarter speed, the work-study man may well be rating you at 50.

So a job you took ten minutes over is put down as five min- utes standard time. This is why so many workers are shocked to find their final specification sheet unrecog- nisable and why times taken off work being done at reason- able speed end up as com- impossible standard pletely times. On the other hand if you work very fast when being timed, the observer would simply change his outlook on what the standards should be and he will probably take this speed as a new standard per- formance. Q. In some cases work- ers are trained in the stopwatch techniques and end up alongside the work-study men tim- ing their fellow workers.

How does this happen? A. The essence of a confi- dence trick—in fact the rea- son it is named as such—is the ability to win the confi- dence of the person you are deceiving. This is recognized by the experts who have a policy of claiming a 'neutral' position between management and labour and who try to tempor- arily draw a few workers into help with the time-and-motion studies to prove to the rest that everything is above board.

Wednesday, June 3, 1970 A quotation from a time- and-motion manual will make the use of this method clear.

The book Introduction to Work Study' published by the International Labour Office, after explaining that a good way of allaying the work- ers' suspicions is to get them to elect a representative to the consultants, work with continues: 'The workers' nominee is given the same basic training as the regular work-study men receive, and takes part with them in making studies on the shop floor and in compiling time standards. 'He remains a member of his normal working group throughout the period of his secondment to the work- study team, drawing neither more nor less pay than he did before, and after work study in the section has been com- pleted he returns to his nor- mal duties. 'He thus remains a nom- inee of the workers through- out, able to keep them informed about what is going on in terms which they will understand. Since he receives neither additional paynor he cannot be advancement suspected of having been "bought" by the management.'

A number of points follow from this description. As the worker is trained the the consultants, he same as arrive at the same can only time for jobs as them so they are not worried that he might give his mates better times for the work. Also, the nominee is usually 'fed' material to report back to his section which will put the scheme in as favourable a light as possible. Further, the nominee may certainly go through the work- study course, but the con- sultants really are not bothered whether he under- stood it or not. It is sufficient for them if about the he merely hangs lace and appears to be in touch with what is going on.

Atterwards, when final times set, queries from have been workers can be answered: 'Your representative was during present at all times timing and all results were fully confirmed by him and finally agreed on the basis of mutuality.' One other point. It is not true that all workers involved in work study return to the shop floor. Some get a 'pay off' in the form of promotion or get a job permanently in the firm's work-study department. Many 'militants' have ended up-this way. Some workers accept the position of 'nominee' knowing that this may well be the out- come. Others, genuinely wanting to fight for their members have got into such a rut look- ing at all issues in 'bread-and- butter' terms that they are completely disorientated when faced with a cleverly planned attack based on a government backing.

BBC 1

8.00-9.00 a.m. Good morning Mexico. E Bulgaria and Uruguay v. Israel. 9.38 Scho mother. 11.05-11.55 Schools. 12 noon-1.: Rumania y England, Peru v Bulg stand. 1.45-1.53 News and weather. 2.05 Schor stand. 3 35 1970 Derby Stakes. 4.20 Pl: 4.55 Vision on. 5.20 Hector's house. 5.2!

London. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00 WORLD CUP GRANDSTAND. Rul Bulgaria, Uruguay v Israel.

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'A Yap In The Night'. 8.00 ITS A KNOCK-OUT. Ramsgate v weather. 9.10 JACK BENNY'S NEW LOOK. With George Burns, Nancy Sinatra and G | ELECTION BROADCAST. Liberal 10.00 10.45 WORLD CUP GRANDSTAND. Moro slovakia v Brazil, Sweden v Italy, Be

REGIONAL BBC

All regions as BBC 1 except: Midlands and E Anglia: 5.30-5.50 Mid- lands today. Look East, weather. Look North of England: 5.30-5.50 North, weather. Wales: 3.45 Cricket: Glamorgan Somerset. 5.30-5.50 Wales today. вВС 2 11.00-11.20 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL.

7.05 p.m. SQUARE TWO. 7.30 NEWS and 8.00 MAN ALIVE. 'The Men Inside'. Pa prison. 9.00 JOHN WILLIAMS. Guitar music by TAKE THREE GIRLS. 'Devon Violets 10.00 ELECTION BROADCAST. Liberal Pa 'THE SILENT WORLD'. Jacque 10.10 winning documentary about life

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ITV

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5.55 WORLD CUP 1970.

7.00 'EDDIE IN AUGUST'. Silent come by Benny Hill. 8.00 IT TAKES A THIEF. 'Scorplo Droj astrologer. 9.00 CALLAN. 'God Help Your Friend marriage. 10.00 ELECTION BROADCAST. Liberal Pa

10.40 WORLD CUP 1970.

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CHANNEL: 11.00-11.57 London. 1.00 Zingalong. 1.15 Open house. 1.45 London. 4.30 Anything you can do. Houseparty 6.20 News, 5.30 5.45 London. 5.55 weather. African patrol. TWO WEEKS AGO to- day as part of the massive economies being effected in British television the last original Wednesday Play was transmitted on

BBC-1.

Reflecting the declined standard of achievement of this series it nevertheless marked the end of a stage in British television. Called 'Chariot of Fire' and concerned with pathetic 59 a year old man who has spent 20 of the last 30 years in jail for sexually fondling small boys, it by Tony Parker. was written Parker has probably given more to understanding a section of the people we find it most difficult to bear than almost any other man alive. For nine years he has laboured silently listening. He has listened to and recorded people con- fusedly accounting their lives of persecution, unhappiness pain, and misery. People who steal, who are im- prisoned for expressing the sexual aberrations which live in all of us, people who have wandered through the indignities of the so-called services and welfare then stumbled out into a worse chaos; people whose lives make no more sense to them. Ts in oberh a vert booth se lives book after book of revelations. The down-and-out, the per- sistent and usually petty offender laws against capitalist the victims of social property, and family processes the effects of which become more crippling their origins become as more obscure. These are the contemporary and customarily silent victims of hundreds of years of repression and dispossession, puritanism and greed with whom Parker has spent so many hours. He tape records, in fact, hun- dreds of hours with the subject; he and carefully transcribes edits the tapes and then adds the most sparing linking or descriptive narrative, to make books like The Unknown Citi- "The Twist- zen', 'Five Women', ing Lane', 'People of the Streets', Co Mage of His CAbitions, The "The his recent study of Britain's only prison given over to psychiatric investigation. He has been likened to May- hew who tried to characterize the London poor at the end of the 19th century; he has recently been compared to Dickens; these way flatter his " comparisons in no achievement, but in some ways illuminate it. He has raised documentary writing to an art form; his in- sight and perception have turned the humdrum tiny horrors into the living which experience moulds and forms Slowly and patiently has patiently returned with account of the journey which enriches all our understanding.

Because of his gentle persist- ence and refusal to moralize, ning Mexico. England v Rumanla, Peru v WESTW srael. 9.38 Schools. 10.45-11.00 Watch with ols. 12 noon-1.30 p.m. World Cup Grand- d, Peru v Bulgaria and Uruguay v Israel.

ther. 2.05 Schools. 2.25 Derby day grand- Stakes. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory: tor's house. 5.25 Abbott and Costello. 5.30 ANDSTAND. Rumanla v England, Peru v

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T. Ramsgate v Margate. 8.50 NEWS and W LOOK. With Jack Benny, Gregory Peck, cy Sinatra and Gary Puckett.

CAST. Liberal Party. 10.10 24 HOURS.

NDSTAND. Morocco v W Germany, Czecho- weden v Italy, Belglum v El Salvador.

7.30-7.55 Heddiw. 9.10 Miss Wales 1970. 9.50-10.00 Datganiad organ.

Scotland: 5.30-5.50 Reporting Scotland.

N Ireland: 5.30-5.50 Scene around six.

outh and West: 5.30 - 5.50 Point Vest. South today. Spotlight South West, weather. 1. 7.30 NEWS and weather.

Men Inside'. Part one Wandsworth. Men in Guitar music by Albeniz and Torroba. 9.10 S. 'Devon Violets'. CAST. Liberal Party. ORLD'. Jacques-Yves Cousteau's award- ary about life on the ocean bed. 11.30 her. 11.35 LINE-UP. Interview with p.m. Racing from Epsom. 4.20 Tingha and g you can do. 5.00 Freewheelers. 5.30 New T'. Silent comedy film written and played F. 'Scorplo Drop'. Al Munday poses as an elp Your Friends'. Callan has to stop a CAST. Liberal Party. 10.10 NEWS.

6.35 Crossroads 7.00 Treasure hunt. .30 London. 8.00 Baron. 9.00 London. 10.00 Pour 10.14 Lon- vous madame. 1,00 News, weather in French, don. weather

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ret "The alterna- become witnesses to their own His answer was: cer He also steadfastly refuses tive lives. to prison not-prison. as look forward to the day when a to draw conclusions for us, pre- ern ferring leave his judge sentences an offender to a to accounts for open scrutiny, but outside long period of freedom and of explicit theoretical frame- let him inside dev refuses to back prison.' work. cor His work is full of the detail In that remark lies the kernel of and complexity the often of the position many artists and exc shattered personality and there mutatis feel hur writers, mutandis, is nothing of the reformer about they forced They are to hold. civ him. have no illusions about reforms, of In his sion a sioere is pearances wh they see clearly that capitalism cannot reform itself to on television there rather his- int any bleakness which torical or human effect; but they tific suggests some- one who consistently exposes go no further. They prescribe the ens himself to so much unhappiness impossible the in full know- dec that he can see no way out.

ledge that it is so. During one 'Line-Up' interview Some making the are now he was asked 'Well, what do you revolutionary connection; a few bei with making it as far these as the revolu- wO

DIODOSE

we people?' recidivists, i.e. sexual tionary party. Mostly, however ma offenders, the hundreds of hey still remain isolated—often int thousands of the society no makiminal.

criminals in in great personal suffering and son desperately the flailing der ser mes

WESTWARD:

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BIRTH CONTROL, euthanasia and the methods

NO ANGHAM

'Beat the Tories' used to prolong human life will have to be re- Thursday, June 4, 7.30 p.m.

viewed in the light of the population explosion, more than 500 planners were told at a confer-

BIRMINGHAM

ence in Cardiff. 'The General Election and The warning was given the Economic Crisis'

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He said: 'Once leaders and have Sealthy and enayatie environ.

creating could transioril OUr Dusical SuT- Mr Boote himself suspected But he did not say so It Was SEVERAL prominent Soviet intellectuals have positively enough. 'Our scope creating new publicly denounced the arrest last Friday of developing new sources Dr Zhores Medvednev, the 45-year-old biologist standards material being who has lead a campaign against Stalinist censor- ale shackled by the aluludes ana ship in the Soviet Union.

motivations which find expres sion in our confused economic Following his arrest, Dr system.' Inable or unwilling to sa Medvedner was taken by

FOREAN CORFESPONDENT

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once that blame for the police to a "psychiatric the planet hospital' at Kaluga, where and faced A mon those Medvedney's special commission of appeal for Dr accute crisis Mr Boote and his release were the scientists Dr fellow planners were forcea k medical experts sent from Sakhartov, Dr Pyotr up come soluton Soviet Moscow examined him. population contro Alexander But despite their conclusion [vardovsky, the cult questions: political and that Dr Medvednev was ber journal 'Novy Mir' editor literary social. such as family and tax Hiel Tecu bormal me was ceramed in the hospital tor a turner ran bang surgery, euthanasia week for 'observations'.

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bringing recently our own priorides. vardovsky Austrian victim himself heen the police provocation. Horrors A poem attacking Stalinism West knowledge C.P. And, hand in hand with see is remova From Nor Mr Boote hoped this control. 'allocation leaders that the the Tvardovsky claimed that his smans a production. the specific product will lead na seen leaked to 1n or in an utions canitalist publisher the Stalinist police- removed -a device pre viously used only against more us through the horrors brought about cracy like Sy and syn the capitalist enter buse also condesked the vardovsky friends THE THREE-DAY Austrian bianners orel us a boney mental yot r continue Ditiuly inadequate Communist Party congres existing sys- ended on Monday with the detention tinkering to the Ill d Major - General or socked amarine level removal of all the Central one of the Committee uncorenko. mOSt problems have opposed to outsDoken oDDonents But Kremlin ccupation ven they can Stalinist bureaucracy. So critical urgency Czechoslovakia. given desnite the mounting persecution anti-Stalinists change Illan s 180- like Grigorenko and Solz- his comnleted treatment of the environment henitsyn, opposition deOTeA rAvArCal sometning more must be done previous policy, which con- layer people

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thout triumbo TWO-THIRDS of the US Senate have urged Nixon to socialism. grant the Israeli request for 125 jet fighters.

¿attar to William Rogeri Secretary State, signed • by 65 Senators,

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that to strengthen conterences come out tarv forces would highly-sophisticated which tip- crisis-ridden mutual much for acanst hac Europe's never been used in action on Middle. Hast war. biggest capitalist bandit.

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BIRMINGHAM YOUNG SOCIALISTS

DEMONSTRATION

Vote Labour June 18! For Socialist policies! Expose Wilson! To keep the Tories out! Birmingham, Saturday, June 13 Assemble 2.30 p.m. Waterloo Street, near Victoria Sq.

March to YMCA, Constitution Hill.

Public Mastina 130 pufollowed by Discotheque