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moved closer to the of Santiago nousands Suez Canal. NOBODY should be deluded by the 'left' dema- detents talks gogy coming out of Brighton this week.

gotiations until this take Threats 'combined Plathis action', i air dominance intone exnorations 'gird loins' and insinuations about winter coal short- Aral ages' and 'sewage in your toilet' might fool. some resistance to the iddle- faet moreone gullible people.

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is possible Rule broken said, came ansther mans Tomic's defeat ends

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deris, feather political supremac lay-off While fighting this movement between and broke promise be crit forces has died dowr entitled to ask them sement in these • need killed iT *Nayet Hawate of the let-wing De, erat union malist Front, told a jour conciliatory talk three months after the elec- the step forward. retreats condition liquidation d Some o the vout. who lobbied LUC delerates in Brighton vesterday.

that he us power ine Soviet Uni drastle Singer this in? Young teachers militant, but guerrillas and the 20,0000 creasing profit rates. strike But these pe nor oN have en No surprise confirmed froo mad to have the Pil of little deadlock been made is should loat mining, versations Allende's programite. down hafte inger corside a fre- Shown hand disputes greatly reduced weed its Promov are foregondent an Erday

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showed food end Monday Aas divisiously com THREE GROUPS of workers lobbied delegates arriving AS WAS to be expected, the Young Teachers' for the opening session of the year's Trades Union Conference of the NUT, held at Birmingham Congress here this morning.

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NUBODY should be deluded by the left' dema- gogy coming out of Brighton this week.

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THE VICTORY of Salvador ISRAEL, having pressurized the US into Allende. 101nt com munist Party and Socialiat denouncing Egyptian violations of the cease- Chilean candidate in the the withdrawal of nre. is now demanding Presidential election, Soviet greeted by a demonstration missiles of thousands of Santiage moved closer to the Suez Canal. I Thing Yosef Those he tie restore Caneli zon dominance in the efforts to br settlemen ma dead to a te which committee Rule broken

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The Day Before Yesterday THE NEW Thames Tele- vision series 'The Day Before We are the Masters Yesterday' started last Tues- Thames September 1- and day with 'We are the Masters' (10.30) a programme of news- reel, interviews and commen- tary centred on the first post-war Labour government.

BBC 2 August 31 Do toars with intrated poe Labour rightwingers, the thor- of ough-going betrayal post-war boom and combined working class which Attlee eith the cooter mite nand and his colleagues carried out efforts reformism after 1945. Stalinism to give a new lease They set out, through timid of life to the capitalism in W reforms and half-hearted com- Europe. The our the balintings patch together promises, to war-mangled body of of Labour's British capitalism and lay new programme. foundations for it to continue The mines were to be first -on the basis of an efficiency They ended, as all such at- plan drawn up for the coal.

tempts defeat of Churchill and the Tory Party, Newsreel film of the 'Forces election' in 1945 gave a glimpse of the tremendous of wave anti-Tory feeling which swept the Tories out of office at the end of the war. Right winger Christopher Mayhew recalled the that when Army ballot boxes were opened in his con- stituency, almost every single vote was for Labour. Defeat In 1945 the working class administered the most crushing defeat the electoral ever to party of unemployment, war big business. and of the Despite the singing 'Red Flag' in the Commons the parliament when new assembled, Attlee made clear that though some reforms were the to be expected, working class would have to make sacrifices to 'put Britain on its feet'. In reality, the Labour leaders mortally afraid of the were working class that had lifted them to office. Over the rest of Europe, fellow their bureau- with difficulty, crats were, holding back revolutionary and the Labour struggles, Party leaders, with suitable modifications, set themselves the same task in Britain. States' $4,000 The United million loan was, in reality, a turning point in this process, actions in the finest detail, par- IT MIGHT be thought that ticularly by use of the pre- experiments carried out by determined-motion-time sys- time-and-motion consultants tems, they are still concerned to fix the amount of energy that much valuable profit- making time is being wasted each worker should use in a on ineffective mental activity. given operation are the last According the to current drive by issue of the specialist magazine word in the the 'Work Study', attempts are employers to intensify labour.

now being made to correct this This is not the case. deficiency by the Work Factor Although the 'experts' claim company which has laid down its results in a so-called 'Mento have defined all manual to owners during the war. Herbert Morrison, in charge of the nationalization pro- gramme, saw it as intervention by the capitalist state to in- crease the efficiency of back- ward key industries in the overall interests of the em- ployers' system. Despite the tremendous wel- come the miners' gave nation- alization (the programme showed Durham miners danc- ing in the streets the day the il, par- Manual'. The article explains e pre- that, as with manual work, sys- mental activity can be divided into basic elements. The times for each element are given in one or several tables and are expressed in time units where one time unit (TU) equals 0.000l minute.

The fundamental elements are 3. C said to be: 1 down 1. EYE-MOTIONS. As with the MTM system, this is IT WAS a bright and sunny tary s day in Ormskirk and down at the bottom of a Mr Duxfield's modest patch of grass, the local Tories were relaxing at their annual garden fete.

Everybody who was anybody was there to enjoy the atmos- phere of goodwill and camar- aderie and have a go at the 'goofy golf' and sundry side shows. There were displays by the Eaglais A Chnot Scottish dancers, music from the Blue Magnolia Band and more to entertain the local Tory bro- therhood. Ted's back in No. 10 and all's well with the world.

But down amongst the tom- bola, something stirred. It was Harold Soref, recently-elected member for Ormskirk, come to address his loyal supporters.

Obviously intent on exer- cising his muscles in prepara- tion for the coming parliamen- Tory fete: SOREF (centre)

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mines nationalized), were workers in the state industries -and none more than the miners-have tasted to the full the bitter fruits of the Labour government's pro - capitalist take-overs. The government's austerity policy, designed to allow busi- to re-equip itself after ness the ravages of the war, meant bread and clothing rationing, a measure which was exploited to the full by the Tory women's divided into eye focus and eye shift. 2. SEE. The time for this is said to be based on the size of an object, the con- trast with its background and its colour. 3. CONDUCT. This is the time required to conduct the impulse from the eye along the nerves to the brain and from the brain tary session, Soref proceeded 7. SP.

to start the Tory day with a bang by hurling himself into a blistering tirade on black power, expatriate revolution- aries, subversives, agitators, wanton and vicious violence, anarchy and troublemakers.

Warned Soref : "Too much tolerance is shown to demonstrators who would blackmail the majority of the population and flout the country's traditional hospital- ity. Some pose as students and others as professional racialists.

'Agitators,' he went on, 'who seek to dwell in this country are not entitled to undermine its security and institutions.

Those who revile the police and demonstrate in the pursuit of wanton and vicious violence are seeking a state of anarchy and a climate agreeable to revolutionary intent.' Sounds familiar? Read on.

'In the interests of Britain their deportation should be accelerated,' said Soref and added that those who were so keen to knock Powell might now care to pay tribute to his prescience. The disorders and riots, which are happening with in- creasing frequency, will doubt- less shortly lead to street fight- infiThe sooner the Home Sec.

retary takes action the better, before trouble gets out of hand.' After this lengthy blast, Soref politely apologized for pursuing a 'hard line' at what was a pleasant social occasion, but he had felt it his duty.

His apology was obviously superfluous. An enjoyable after- noon was had by one and all, confident that their affairs were in the hands of a capable and far-seeing rep. Ice creams in hand, they wandered about the tranquil lawns. For those who wanted more of the hard stutt, there was always Punch and Judy.

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lobby. The programme showed scenes of overfed Conservative ladies waxing indignant about the coupon system. The most phoney Tory lobby of all, however was the British Medical Association's cam- against the National paign Health Service, masterminded by 'radio doctor' Charles Hill.

denounced 'the state Hill doctor' and praised the vir- of 'independent' tues (i.e., private) medicine. to various parts of the this of body. It depends on the length of the nerve path.'

his is 4. IDENTITY. This involves the speed at which an ob- ject can be clearly picked I. S out for what it is. 'An III. C unusual position', e.g. 'up- sidedown', says the article, 'requires extra time'. 5. DECIDE. This is the time taken to decide what action to take on the basis of the V. D information received from the eye. 6. DISCRIMINATE. Is the time needed to make a dis- similar tinction between shapes, colours and sizes.

SPAN, it is said, relates to paper observation whole by 29 number of characters. For 17.4 'to look example, at a group of soldering joints at once instead of looking separately at each one'. CONVERT. This is said to mean the conversion of one type of information into another. 'For example, a postal sorter reads name of a street on an envelope and puts the letter into the pigeon-hole for the appropriate district'.

untry 9. TEMPORARY MEMOR- IZE AND RECALL. This is the temporary storage in the memory of information required again in a short time.

10. TRANSFER ATTENTION.

This is to disengage the operator's attention from A to task B. 'The task time, explains the article, is governed by the inten- sity of concentration re- quired to execute task A and task B.

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TAIN. The time for this, it is said, depends on the kind of computation and the number of continuous computes to be made. Inspection The article gives an example of how this system would be for an in- used to fix times spection task. This involves examination of sheets of paper 30 cm by 22 cm for visible flaws (spots, bumps, pits, etc.). ately It explains that the inspec- tion unit which can be properly encompassed in one gaze is 3.1 by 2.4 cm. This would that 100 such 'gazes' mean were required to examine each sheet of paper. The elements included in exten Now that the Tories are get- ting ready to slash even greater holes in the NHS, it is worth remembering just where they stood on the question of free medical care. Finally, after being forced the to devalue the pound, Labour government went to he polls and was returned.: out with a majority of just six The historic crisis of British capitalism posed enormous questions bèfore the Attlee

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(left to right) Robert Harbottle, William Nuckle, Arthur Wlison and Tommy Roberts. this operation and the time for each is given as follows: I. Eye shift to next ... 5 TUs unit II. See inspection unit 4 TUs III. Conduct impulse to brain ... . 1 TU IV. Identify presence or absence of spots, etc.

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eye total 29 TUs For the complete sheet of paper the time would be 100 by 29 TUs = 2,900 which is 17.4 seconds. This system is reckoned to provide oppor- tunities to study routine men- tal activity and 'gives the pos- sibility of drawing up standard times for inspection work'.

The current trend among work-study consultants is to call for a more human ap- proach to workers. More psychology and plenty of participation is said workers' to be what is needed. The early users of the systems, Bedaux, are Taylor and attacked as having been too much concerned with the mechanical aspect of the oper- ative. Inhuman This present attitude is clearly no more than a cover for the most inhuman concept of all; that the worker is no more than a bundle of mental and physical impulses which exist for nothing else than to be applied to working opera- tions. In this situation, not only must the worker refrain from all useless actions which might detract from full-speed pro- duction, but he must also be sure not to think any thought unconnected with the work he is doing as this might well affect output-and so profits.

However, it should not be thought that these methods are simply some form of sick joke by one or two business- men. The employers are desper- ately concerned to stave off a falling profit rate by use of automation, and, where he cannot be dispensed with, by incorporating the worker into the automated sytem. So long as capitalism exists, managements in all seriousness will set out to pursue and extend this policy. Tuesday, September 8, 1970

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government, but it proved spoke of the appalling condi- powerless to solve them. tions in the pits, and the wage Like Wilson's government of cuts the employers wanted 1964-1970, it ended by open- make-the coal masters wanted ing the door to Toryism. the wage of 6s 8d a to trim 40 per cent. day by The lesson of the 1945 'Conditions wicked,' were Labour is that government said one of them. reformism answer the cannot needs of the working class in a period of capitalist crisis.

'Slaves' Even with the best of in- tentions- -and these were not- 'We to slaves. were next ably lacking from 1945 the Churchill wanted to set the Labour government was troops on the strikers. We had ousted by the Tories. to let the people see what we were getting. We were getting starvation and they wages, ANOTHER flash-back pro- wanted to cut them. gramme-this time on BBC, Tory justice extracted a ter- price for rible their action, revealed something of what and tried to brand them as Toryism means to the work- potential murderers. ing class. But they described how the International Class War Wreckers" wame eston Train Prisoners' Aid stood up for were eight North- them, and how they were Clement Attlee after the 1945 General Election victory for Labour umberland miners sent greeted with brass bands and to prison after the general strike a huge procession on their or derailing a train release. The most terrible thing, one Four of them are still alive, of them said, was when and their story was told on mate gets up in the witness 'Yesterday's Witness' last Mon- box and swears your life away.

day. That was terrible The four men told how, on Even now they hold a cele- the seventh day of the strike, bration when one of the men they had set out, on union who betrayed them dies. instructions to stop trains on By contrast with the medical the main railway through the student strike-breakers, now village. respectable middle-class Scot- tish medicos, the four miners Derailed gave a tremendous impression of They were victims of ruling- class justice which took ven- track geance on them for the general express, driven by two medical strike and for its own fear of off the rails, revolution. ut they were not broke nen. As one of the four sai at the end: the village, the I'm till smiling. Nobod were finally able to will ever ake the smile o my face. I've learnt to take hardships as they come. What a contrast : with the to eight years. Labour bureaucrats who The survivors still conside figure so prominently in "Th was right. They Day Before Yesterday'

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an- nouncement that the W German government is willing to provide a credit guarantee for the build. ing of a large truck plant in Russia underlines the great crisis which is now gripping the Soviet economy. Stuttgart has now been selected as the venue for the first exchanges between Soviet officials and the W German car firm Daimler-Benz on the construction of a giant truck plant near the Kama River in the USSR. The talks are due to begin late this month, and, according to a Daimler-Benz spokesman, the Moscow team will pro- bably be headed by Soviet for car production Minister Tarasov. The W German government has already promised to assist in the financing of the project, which will cost around £400 million, and when completed, turn out 150,000 trucks a year.

At present, the entire Soviet truck industry produces about 100,000 vehicles. Daimler-Benz, one of several W European car firms involved in the project, will make its patents and technology avail- able to the Soviet motor in- dustry. It may also advise the Soviet government on which other western companies could as- sist the Russians in building and fitting out the plant.

There is little doubt that the possibility of securing more deals of this kind lay behind speed with which the Soviet leaders signed the Treaty of Detente with the W Germans. Another firm believed to be involved in these discussions is Renault. In January of this year they did a deal with the Russians involving the supply of equipment to the motor industry-part of a general easing and expansion of trade between France and the Soviet Union. Motors has not been the only industry involved.

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Natural gas-an industry which Soviet leaders are trying desperately expand-has to also involved deals with west- ern firms. At the end of last year a French consortium was awarded a contract to build three plants to refine and re- cover natural gas. government has The Italian also lent financial support to similar deals in which leading Italian firms including Fiat and Pirelli have contracted to pur- chase supplies of Soviet natural gas in return for sales of pip- ing and telecommunications equipment. While, on the one hand, these reflect the growing turn on the part of leading capital- ist monopolies to markets in E Europe and the Soviet Union, they indicate at the same time the insoluble eco- nomic problems of the Soviet economy. The 24th Soviet Party Con- gress which should have been held in March of this year, and as recently as June was announced for the autumn, has been further postponed. Widening differences in the top bureaucracy about how to handle fundamental economic problems are certainly behind the delay. The announcement of tar- gets for the 9th Five-Year Plan have also been delayed as it becomes increasingly clear that the last Plan (1966-1970) did little to deal with long- standing economic problems and in fact saw some regres- sion in key areas, notably agriculture. It was in 1965 that more economic measures "liberal' were introduced to try and raise output and labour pro- ductivity. These measures represented a move away from centralized planning, which had character- I would like inform Fill in the form below and si

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bureaucratic centralism organized repression as the in- struments of labour discipline were no longer possible. But it is clear that whatever the reasons for its introduc- tion, the reform measures have proved a failure. For 1969, all industries, with the exception of footwear, failed to meet their target plans.

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In some industries the short- fall in 1969 target figures was considerable. Thus in motors it was almost 40 per cent; in agricultural machinery it was nearly 20 per cent; in paper around 20 per cent; steel pipe over 15 per cent, gas nearly per cent; fertilizers over 20 per cent; tractors nearly 10 25 per cent. But it was in agriculture that the crisis was most re- vealed. Here, over the last year, there has been an actual decline in output of around 4 per cent. This was even more serious, coming as it did after a period when farm prices were deliber- ately raised along with wages in rural areas in an attempt to step up productivity. e information about below and send to NATIONAL

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There are now officially admitted acute meat shortages in many parts of the Soviet Union and the number of live- stock has actually declined in recent years. Between 1968 and 1969 the number of cattle fell from 95.7 millions to 95 million with the number of sheep and goats declining from 146.1 to 136.3 millions. Over the same period meat production was stagnant (at 11.6m tons) with the output of sugar beet, potatoes and grain-this largely the result of bad harvesting conditions— also dropping sharply. But while the economic backwardness may reveal itself most clearly in agriculture which still employs 30 per cent of the labour force-—its real roots lie in industry. Agricultural production and productivity cannot be raised in the absence of a modern chemicals industry, without a rapid expansion of the pro- duction of farm machinery and along with it the development a modern machine-tools of industry. None of these tasks can be solved in economy still an largely isolated from the world market and burdened with in- Laying pipes for NATURAL GAS: An Industr French and Italian Imperialist 'help' is curre creasing defence commitments.

Nor did the reforms initi- ated in economic management by the 8th Plan do anything to overcome the crisis stem- ming from the bureaucratic mismanagement of the econ- omy. Indeed factory managers, hit by acute labour shortages, and facing intense pressure from the working class, allowed wages to soar up way beyond increases in productivity, thus aggravating a situation where delays of many months and even years are common for large consumer durables. Conservative estimates indi- cate that labour shortages may exceed two millions through- out the economy.

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At the same time, many sectors, notably transportation and distribution, are consider- ably overstafied. As a result there has been little release of labour to assist with the de- of Far Eastern velopment Russia in the manner the last Plan hoped for. The greater ability of fac- •"tory chiefs to use the surpluses earned on capital to 'bribe' workers to join their plant, or to keep them even when not immediately required, has only added to labour bottle- necks and at the same time raised labour mobility in other sections to startling propor- tions. An official survey conducted last year in the Russian Feder- ation indicated that of those interviewed, two-thirds had worked in one place for less than a year while over three- quarters of those leaving their jobs were under 30. Because it normally takes a four-week period for a worker to leave one job and start another - and often the time delay is longer — production losses are assuming consider- able proportions. Given the constant changes in production targets which the bureaucracy imposes with no regard for real possibilities, managers have tended deliber- 'hoard' labour in ately to anticipation that their targets will be raised to levels which they could not otherwise real- For the same reason there have been continual com- plaints from those wishing to return to more authoritarian methods that enterprises still concentrate upon quantity rather than quality in their output and still 'hide' much of their productive capacity from Moscow in order to meet their targets. So the 'liberals' have come under heavier and more open GAS: An Industry which Soviet leaders are desperate st 'help' is currently being solicited.

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attack in the Party press; Stalin's name has been in- creasingly invoked in economic controversy and there have been more and more strident calls for disciplinary action against those workers who violate the "labour code'.

In other words, standing at the very heart of the economic crisis is the Soviet working class. The growing offensive of this working class, taking heart from both the revival of the class struggle in W Europe as well as from the courageous fight of sections of the intelli- bureau- rentsia against the cracy, makes any "peaceful' solutions to these economic problems impossible. It increasingly makes de- mands upon its bureaucratic rulers - for more and better consumer goods, for better housing, for better quality food-which cannot be met by the backward Soviet economy.

It is this pressure which 1S driving the Kremlin into closer economic ties with imperialism.

Only in this way does it see , getting hold of apy hope of the means of remedying the deficiencies in the economy.

Not that these moves, at this stage, represent a quali- tative change in Soviet eco- nomic relations. Whatever sections of the bureaucracy may the want, basic conquests of 1917, in- cluding the state monopoly of foreign trade, remain. It is on this basis alone, despite the.

mismanagement and blunder- ings of the bureaucracy, that the rapid economic. develop- ment of the last 50 years has taken place.

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Lenin and Trotsky were never opposed to economic re- lations with the capitalist world, even to the extent of the importation of favouring capital. But these were always, in their case, subordinated to the revolutionary politics of the Third International. Under Stalin, and now under Brezhnev and Kosygin, it is an entirely different matter.

The latest trade deals with the motor and oil giants of Europe take place as part of a rapid move to the right on all political and diplomatic questions. As such they DO constitute an increasing threat to the Soviet property relations, even though these can only be finally overturned after a series of major defeats for both the European and the Soviet working class. In other words, the Soviet 's are desperately trying to expand.

Tuesday, Septen The working class makes Increasing demands on the Sovlet bureaucracy for nore consumer is this pres cannot be met by ine backwara soviet economy.

driving the Kremlin Into closer economic ties with Imperlalism- the mo economic crisis has deep his- torical roots which sections of

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BARBARA SLAUGHTER LOOKS AT LEEDS CUT BACKS

Further comments on

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The need for the actions of thet ernation sides of the capiment in Clothing collackin& of Danet tacat yohn campt ment made nost] joint discussion The Hepton Group of Companies Ltd, and - Fil workers At the CWS clothing factory, Holbeck, between the International Committee and the Unified Secretariat Clear line-up Proter emphasized thai file face massive CONSIDERABLE interest has been aroused by the reports which embership have appeared concerning the two meetings between myself and George or ka blant tne nrst stage or a dan to spee•-u• ming from people like Jack The the factory has been intro.

secretariat itself

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issued a statement in July duced. which said, amongst other Ashe trade taion leadoris, SLL national secretary Fourth International purases and Pire we pressure on the exers unemployment and File' tionary forces of Stalinism coe United Secretaria cipled basis. sible informal talk Socialist Labour historian, C and OT [Organization Me Trade Union Con1955 KEes Deeds that hinese wor rinning of the em Closet ile caes both attacks. Son dine plans to force the Tories in the ns ars Sereniend • he con • Tore restlernative leadersh if East factory at Pelaw assass the e work-stray pilot ce is prot to be dissi scheme. pated in the coming months.

1 job evaluatio common an Mid-East skills, Disguise viously took months of train-

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• Polo eas At Hepton's and CWS the employers have attempted tead it they arthro on tion this ex situatetitive Vanite Composi Pare- petition and international trade Wal, pose saner to the are mittees tote a similar line

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Same process comin-man. said once 4a Taraei finds herself inego same process. had placed to intense ded Because so want to se mploymen to go ahead e the torne the Americans want to sec been quested Mid the atmospere as des leadership in national Labour Party

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