Speed-up men seek payment by energy'

sion that trade union strength is enough, and prepare politically to defeat the Tories.

It is a question of mobilizing the strength of the working class to such effect that the Tories are forced to resign, and not a question of insisting that the government collaborate with the unions, as the union leaders say.

The Tories won their narrow majority by committing themselves to their attack on the unions and to the imposition of law and order; and they need to make some headway on these questions if they are to have any hope of making small economic concessions to the middle-class voters.

But here the difficulties begin.

The economic crisis will quickly worsen and the strike struggles of the working class will continue to build up their But in these struggles, wages are inevitably being joined, more and more, by questions of jobs, security, the future of whole industries, nationalization (docks, civil aviation, shipbuilding, road transport and even the press!).

These problems unavoidably raise the question of ownership and of the class power which alone can settle such questions.

Yet at the same time the Labour and trade union leaders move to the right.

This question must be brought right to the front in the labour movement: what is the relationship between the Labour, and trade union leaders on the one hand, and the Tory government and its policies on the other?

The reality of their appeal for government cooperation is this: their mediation and strike-breaking (and their occasional leading of strikes in order to break them) gives the employers time to break up the working class and prepare the conditions for their Bonapartist dictatorship.

The continued strength of the working class as it fights the effects of the crisis will accelerate this role of the union leaders.

Immediately the question is to insist throughout the labour movement that the union leaders break all connection with the Tory governThe plans of this government, acting on behalf of the unions' enemies, are known to everybody.

Businessmen are running the government.

• No collaboration!

• Fight the government!

• Force it to resign!

CONTINUED TOMORROW WAGE BARGAINING on the basis of calorie expenditure is one of the latest reactionary ideas mooted by a work-study engineer.

British-Leyland's workstudy manager A. L. Minter claims to have worked out tables for energy used by workers on the factory floor, which could be linked to other work - measurements and become a counter in wage example, their selin breaks Instead of ertain amount of calories pe eight-hour shift!

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Work - Study possibie to fix general bies which could be applied in industrial situations.

• energy special equipment, and which will give estimate applicaole To the derace onerato for whom the work standard is being set.

"The use of special measuring outomer arred because of expense, an because the work-study prac titioner usualv has neither The time, knowleage. the permission of the worker direct physiological measurements.

'In any event, such measurements would be specific to th individual measured and difficult use as a pasts realistic expenditure for a given could b determine amounts time that should be given work and rest during the Yorkinan at present satisfac Tables Some attempts, he says, have been made to compile Laves for estor a task -minue caine 0o3 said.

to and walking ta do 3.5 calories.

further seven pages of graphs and formulas purport anve genera values of energy levels for various activities.

One in particulet is linked with methods-time measurement-2 (MTM-2) system, so that as well as times for specific movements—reach granite vale are also givene acton, ec. - ine Minter claims that experihave lec to a level of Tour to uve calores a molotte as being accepted as the uppe limit for continuous activity On the allowance time, he gives formulas give the total minutes of rest that should be given in a shift energy expenditure, but warns: certail levels Loose "The blind use of these esti-