'Pioneer against piecework' heads group Labour Party's new

Eire right wing for to talk to Ulster political leaders in Belfast soon. He will be accompanied by the party's spokesman on foreign affairs, Richie Ryan.

The decisions, announced yesterday, follow a Shadow Cabinet meeting which studied the various policy documents submitted by the Ulster parties.

Fine Gael said yesterday that Ulster talks there was in Ulster 'an impressive body of opinion favouring sensible co-operation between the people of Ireland'.

Mr Gerry Fitt, leader of the Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party, has given a guarded welcome to Cosgrove's intended visit. Wage-cut warning to Rumanians CEAUSESCU'S government has warned Rumanian workers that they face wage-cuts if targets are not fulfilled or if they slack on the job. As much as one third of the pay packet might be docked.

The Rumanian bureaucracy is trying to place the entire burden for its own mismanagement and economic difficulties onto the working class. The projected new law may Lord Wilfred Brown: Anti-piecework philosoply Indiscriminate killings' by state troopers at Attica ACTION taken to put down the Attica Prison riot in York State in September last year, which resulted in deaths of 43 prisoners and guards, has been demned by a special investigating commission.

Governor Rockefeller himself, who set up the commission. It criticizes his refusal to come to the scene after appeals from an observers' committee and from his prison commissioner, Russell G. Oswald.

to re-take the prison, 300 State Troopers went in discriminately and in a completely chaotic way. The report Trenches and barricades withou the killing and wounding activity' most of the prisoners' grievances were legitimate and that they had tried to work within the system to correct them. It deinclude extra pay where targets have been overfulfilled.

Wages in Rumania rank among the lowest in Europe. They have been kept down deliberately to make possible an ambitious investment programme. • Ceausescu, an adherent Stalinist policy of 'socialism in one country, is now facing a growing economic crisis. When the decision was made Troopers shot into tents The commission found that He is trying to overcome the difficulties by a so-called drive against bureaucracy and turning the Communist Party towards tighter control of industry.

Ceausescu has ordered new efforts for nationalization, better distribution of skilled labour and the supply of spare parts. All party units have been told that they must get closer to workbench problems. AN ORGANIZATION calling itself the 1972 Industry Group was founded in London yesterday comprising managers and business executives who are Labour Party members. Its main purpose is to act in an advisory capacity to the Labour Party on industrial and economic questions.

Heading the organization is Lord Wilfred Brown, Minister of State at the Board of Trade during the Wilson government, and From 1939 to 1965 he was managing director and chairman of the Glacier Metal Company and in 1964 he was appointed a director of Associated Engineering.

At yesterday's press conference to launch the 1972 Industry Group, Lord Brown said the Labour Party lacked communication with management. He said about 20 per cent of managers and business executives were sympathetic to the Labour Party.

Many executives were afraid to declare they were party members because they might be labelled as 'red' and therefore lose promotion chances.

Brown, a notorious right-winger, said he did not think the trade unions would resent the formation of the group. He went on to explain that he had met TUC's Victor Feather who had 'welcomed' the group's formation.

A biography handed out to the press showed that Brown had written a work entitled Piecework Abandoned'. When questioned by Workers Press if he was in favour of Measured-Day Wuik and New conscribed jail conditions as dehumanizing, debasing and volatile almost to the point of inevitable warfare'.

The commission found no evidence of any plot for a take-over of the prison. The demonstration took place spontaneously and was badly organized by the inmates.

The authorities' action was based upon the need to make a decisive reassertion of the state and of its sovereignty and power.

'While all state officials were concerned about the safety of hostages, the conclusion that, they had finally after four days of negotiation, the need to reassert the authority of the state over the rebels outweighed the risks of an assault.' The commission found that the fact that the revolt took place at Attica was a question of chance, 'the elements of a replication are all around us. Attica is every prison; and every prison is Attica' In planning his ultimatum Ceausescu may have picked up some tips from the Greek colonels' Minister of Culture and Sciences, Panayiotakis, who spent five days i in Bucharest earlier this week.

Panayiotakis had talks during his visit with Ion Maurer, the Rumanian premier, and with Justinian, the patriarch i of the Rumanian Orthodox a former chief executive in industry. other productivity schemes, he said:

*I can claim to be the pioneer against piecework.' He said he first started fighting piecework 20 years ago 'before anybody else Other businessmen would not listen to his proposals and now. today, 'they are paying through the nose to get rid of it'.

If other managers had listened to him they would have saved themselves a lot of money.

Brown is a figure of some contention in the labour movement because of his association with the docks. He was chairman of the Docks Modernization Committee from 1965 to 1967. This was the notorious body which implemented the initial stages of the Devlin Report which slashed jobs in dockland.

Other 'Labour' men in the group are vice-Chairman, Derek Page, who was MP for Norfolk. Kings Lynn until the 1970 General Election. He was founder of the Cambridge Chemical Company and is a director of Buckmaster and Page, a firm engaged in 'industrial security.

The other vice-chairman • is Wilson's close friend, Sir Joseph Kagan, chairman of the Gannex Company. Kagan received knighthood in 1970.

Honorary secretary is Arnold Gregory, director of Intas Technical Services and a consultant to Courtaulds Limited. Courtaulds has other connections with the Labour Party: the senior director in charge of personnel and industrial questions is Lord George Brown, former Foreign Secretary and Labour's deputy leader.

Honorary treasurer is Norman J. Hart, joint managing director of Gwynne Hart and Associates, public relations consultants. He is a determined member of the pro-European right-wing clique in the Labour Party. He is president of the Young European Management Association and deputy chairman of the Labour Committee for Europe.

The inaugural meeting of the group will be held on September 23 at which Labour leader Harold Wilson will be guest speaker.

Yesterday's meeting of this Labour Party group was held in a citadel of big business, the CBI building. Brown described the Labourites' presence as a nice bit of British liberality'.