Tightening up

In fact, one of the essential management methods of speeding-up work is to take away the time actually needed by workers for rest and to replace it with their own supposed scientifically worked out relaxation allowances.

These are not real rest periods -ten minutes, 15 minutes etc.— in which no work is done, but are tiny amounts tacked on to the basic time given for each element of work.

The first thing that happens when employers set relaxation allowances is that any existing tea or other breaks disappear and all other temporary stoppages-going to the lavatory, etc. -are tightened up.

CONTINUED TOMORROW gramme in which two opposed views are presented with accompanying films.

Clavel's film evoked memories of the Resistance and the Liberation, linking the early hopes of Gaullism with the 'contestation' of the students in 1968.

It included shots of the Maoist Le Dantec laying wreath on a Resistance shrine after his release from prison.

It ended with an appeal to the people not to take power, but to speak out (literally to take the word).

Clavel claimed that his contribution to the debate, entitled 'Is French society guilty?' had been censored. The commentary was quoted from President Georges Pompidou's interview in the 'New York Times' magazine.

The English text said that Pompidou had lived through the German occupation as a teacher without much difficulty. He went on to say: 'As for the romanticism of the Resistance, the heroes both real and self-proclaimed - I hate all that Clavel's text claimed that HE THEORY AND PRACTICE ISION Wing postage.

A subtle interpretation of words is involved. Did Pompidou display aversion to the Resistance when he said 'I hate all that business', or only to its exploitaClavel is an erratic character who has displayed sympathies for left-Gaullism in the past as well as for the 'leftism' of 1968 vintage. He is by no means a revo lutionary, nor does he accept any responsibility to the working class.

He was the subject of blatant piece of censorship intended to conceal Pompidou's absence of any kind of Resistance record.

The right-wing press has charged Clavel with irresponsibility and childishness. the - American railways on paying basis is going full speed to financial disaster.

Started last May with $40m in subsidies and $100m in loans from Congress the National Railroad Passenger Corp, or Amtrak, is looking for some more public money to keep going.

The idea of Amtrak was to attract passengers back to the ailing railways by offering better services and brighter. trains complete with airways style hostesses.

But fresh paint, new upholstery and pretty faces have not made the Amtrak lines a financial success. It is thus asking Congress to throw more good money after bad to save it from bankruptcy.