Workers Press no. 253

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TUSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1970

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253 'Israelis on border' -claim Beirut, Mondav .. Palestinian guerrillas claimed today Israel Illassing LIooP armour alone the ordan rive as a prelude for a US-backed Betere memen ndan

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

ABOUT 150 ARABS arrested by the Zionists "ere ariner over the weekend began a hunger strike in the hi-jan s0 of terle Tel Aviy Nablus central prison yesterday.

to Jordan Guards reported that they refused to cat thei morning meal.

BY DAVID MAUDE

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

UNION LEADERS' talk of 'an offensive wages UNION LEADERS representing

SWEEP

LAFTY-fI strategy' will be tested against government- 770,000 municipal workers me haine netd ithe hosae sill steeled opposition this week in at least four

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ofticials Department of oT te

BOR KRA

Employment Productivity and

PILOTS

sectors of industry.

LOW

NOMIU.

yesterday to explain their case for 20 to 30 per cent increases in basic Local government work-

PAY!

JOB

pay rates. Employers have already ers, provincial busmen anc T&GWU retreat on met the DEP to put their case.

miners-whose pay claims al reach a crucia stage in Outside the Department about 100 the next few days-have council workers lobbied the talks.

already been wame ma Re dersil. will face hard-line .c th- they situation Tesistance. disipline the let-ring of th ver. the pit re gecter o lar macure of Ampilymen and Produc Productivity ING APE NETECE LaT t Carr has com Minister pshire's GKN-Sankey De adopteble approach should plant. saop slewards represcaun Fear of workers

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which they started the tani mion la% ho they cam istat.

reake fiom purel marinaliso morrdo to break the Popular board - an betwee "strings". . Hicipal empo ces cork in Brisder whict dehanee strike revir 'Officially I 40-hou Sitical maturity of the Wia veckh ne pay itopoul 815.

three Atte Giant executives of the five unions , ie til : Sou o doubi IYIYeU trade Letters movemen! From our industrial correspondent Meting message 'the Bardire PROVINCIAL busmen are now locked in a major dual ette s te each strike.

Trade fight with the Tory government for their £4 the All tades l bone Ali when he insisted that his pro wage claim, which will raise their basic rate to t20 oner is centinly sas far as th y estend oteial caman lay asmen • by the Ficet st bonomin SUPPORT continues to flow in for the sacked Pilkington - both chances in

PRICE OF

glassworkers. This tıme engineers in the London alca and municipal- the Bord o h Maver. have called on all trade unions to send delegates to the 0 P162000 imn for

FREEDON

done- be disused. Liverpool conterence to centralize and exteno Ine fitile about the real pasition for some of unt to casche opposie is in fact the Corporation workers will on he ecend hie i0 v day strike et Trán t of The dock strike did will tell awaiting the defeat of these sene ps grils on th oterees Motor racti co tse tset the1 recin curen ise gineering co undry a treak suphas onist servants. or sist hila! that thi lefeat does not take place

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

Ribns inat tripe ind sty Without Mold almasen an union is recma ba have has little ston Maximum support very month this year excep The second of Two sa passen ens an The Economist

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Trotsky Memorial Lectures Other government are eager! sade mon

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Areas which were due to

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ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

BEAVER HALL

GARLICK HILL

CONFERENCE

demon ran how ad Near Mansion House tube deport ia to oteir sire ie Starts 8 p.m. Sceptical major, long-lasting The Pilkington struggle and the right to strike !

TROTSKYS LAST

Macal bosu he e te

WORDS

branch of Tories are prepared t Defeat the proposed Tory anti-union laws!

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mactads tor onc day strikes

THE VICTORY OF THE

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naring e Pilkin: .was explained that

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2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. колсі Tory most vice actually assisted mear cament dintin charges Vie Ler Con terence Credentials Secesary, W. isinter, sardeighs asenage and fuel bills were against cucel a pusli Lecture given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary PAGE FOUR COL. g

Whar thinli The political strike THE RETURN to work of the This is the second defeat inan section of workers fighting ainst productivity deals other unions on the refinery Having dema started us antho a, a the employment Over were Britair througho As against sensite and and facilitates anti-union There sal be no confusion on Ellesmere Ruthless expulsion Michael Cambridge, the Pome Ofice stay any longer • The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1970

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Israelis massing on border -claim Beirut, Monday — Palestinian guerrilas claimed todav israel massing troops and armour along the Jordan river as a prelude for a US-backed invasion wipe guerrilla movement in Jordan Baghdad Radio anio tradera

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

ABOUT 150 ARABS arrested by the Zionists over the weekend began a hunger strike in the of three airliners Tel Aviv Nablus central prison yesterday.

Guards reported that they refused to eat their morning meal. governments

BY DAVID MAUDE

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

UNION LEADERS' talk of 'an offensive wages Zionists will pas UNION LEADERS representing

„SWEEP?

strategy' will be tested against government- municipal workers met 170,00V the opposition this week in at least four

AWAY

officials of Department steeled

BOB WRA

Employment and Productivity sectors of industry.

PILOTS

LOW

yesterday to explain their case for

RONRWHILE

Local government work- 20 to 30 per cent increases in basic

JOR

ers, provincial busmen and Employers have already pay rates. T&GWU retreat on met the DEP to put their case.

swere suspected miners-whose nav cams all reach a crucial stage in Outside the Department about 100 Sankey • claim council workers lobbied the talks.

the next few davs-nave already been warned that i his local Pres they will lace increapport of chie or street resistance. In the private sector, how under a corter order one armied down in the race or cal or tike actiot olden endorse previou Workers Union members. t Of we havent ed ard ane ace from in yet. be approach should obaopshire's GKN-Sankey union's stewards will lae lus o want us to sit like mice so they can pu

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eed to Shop stewards peac th Fear of workers any price yesterdas of Their Taries use troops it will be becaus

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entered money in dispute. 1 to Friday's This is 4s 5d -an- hou strings pay increase without boyees work in Brunder whic Ming that, when they rep of alter do a 40-hou take home pay stoppat sis Giant rates ot the five anion! at least Letters From our industrial correspondent

THE AUGUST

Meeting urade ngur PROVINCIAL busmen are now locked in a maiol All Trades Unions All ngnt with the lory government tael wage claim, which will raise their basic rate to £20.

Union r Britain's trade witl meeting on the rest of the world. thể thou day yesterd of cas a new eve SUPPORT continues to flow in for the sacked Pilkington Belonal contrad and men glassworkers. This time engineers in the London area PRICE or Pilkington's struggle have called on all trade unions to send delegates to the with star aken

FREEDOM

podious tober 3 also acion for centralize and extend the LiverDool conference workers. Pilkington's struggle. hold busmen case. GKN-Sankey chairman H. S.

A resolution from the Erith Where than district 1 ne awaiting defeat "of the prostress the rade figures no rha Mem. pose the orante freak' surplu action this million. or the most taos actions port union's sanctions.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

Rebutting its The union is recommend- has Tittle stomach' for fighting Maximum support The second of Two Killick tells the Economist pport olf the theole and Trotsky Memorial Lectures one-man ernment sre eagerl

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Tory government

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Area.

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included "Trotsky's fight against revisionism'

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

BEAVER HALL

GARLICK HILL

should factories and branches

CONFERENCE

Near Mansion House tube Sceptical Admission wi The Pilkington struggle and the right to strike !

bout the overtime Many

ROTSKYS LAST WORD

alc very Defeat the proposed Tory anti-union laws!

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esolution calling

THE VICTORY OF THE

FOURTH INTERNATIONAI

St George's Hall, Lime St Instead. Ireland Gril Rights socia

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LIVERPOOL

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Com- •gas incident fron ka elsewhere?

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explained the attacks -called - James Roach 2.30 р.m. - 6 p.m. distortion employers Win 6S es as grenades right. continy that Credentire ry, W. Vainer, Seeighton it, Ever Conference *erage and fuel bills were The branch also elected two possess the Lecture given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) October 3 conference working class

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PAGE TWO

Strikes by dustmen at the end of last year sparked off a strike which was ALL VITAL town and countr WHY ARE local services are operated by the loca authority workers pro- authorities. posing to take strike Manual workers in the current dispute run and operate ambu- action against their em- lances, crematoria, refuse collec- , street cleansing and lighting, ployers? road and pavement maintenance, gravedigging, sewage question of increased pay in?

parks and gardens, public baths, increased pay in- schools maintenance, school question meals, council house maintenance volved here - it is a political and many other jobs. matter. council On separate agree- Massive government-backed hall firemen, productivity schemes have been ments are town direct building set in staffs, works motion recently in- departments, and teachers.

crease the work-load on indivi- dual workers, to reduce the number of jobs and to hold down wages in all of Britain's 1,510 and part-time employees. local authorities. Of the 700,000 workers affected Councils have aimed to intro- present claim. about 55 by the duce work-studied incentive per cent are women. bonus schemes, but government agencies have made it clear that walk-out by these macc these eventually lead must to workers show would soon Measured-Day Work systems.

importance to the running of the basic services. Workers 'are sick of attacks on jobs and wage freezing when un- It is not a question of them employment is rising and prices fallen having behind wages: are soaring. never in the race in they were the first place. The Tories threaten to enforce their wage freeze policy by 1966 Prices and Incomes moving in troops when the strike £12 13s Board survey revealed takes place. basic pay for men in England and With shift Wales. overtime, allowances and incentive Day- total weekly ments, earnings averaged €15 18s In 10d. many cases overtime is not available.

workers Full-time women £7 19s 344- averaged 7d for a hour week, while part-time received women workers about 4s 6d an hour. The £16 10s current claim shows how little the wages have moved since 1966. BUT SURELY many of these jobs are a bit of a backwater and a lot less exacting than production industries?

MECHANIZATION

and new methods have changed working this out-dated concept: One-man hydraulic platform.

SCHOOL KITCHENS

WHAT KIND of work is done by council em- For example, the development of large comprehensive schools ployees? Isn't it true as well as increased numbers of buildings pupils in existing have that they have fallen lead to the installation of high- speed, mechanized kitchens.

behind on wages be- Giant boilers, dish- electric cause the work is washers friers are now in •and use. thought to be relatively.

This has meant more work for unimportant? kitchen staff. Food preparation—

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LEON

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safe. trike which was Joined by all sections of council work

QUEST

of fish, meat, vegetables and pastries - is done at high speed on production-line principles.

After dinners there is a massive clean-up of all equip- ment. Although ventilation systems have improved, the heat and steam remain - as does the danger with of accidents machinery, knives and slippery floors. Often part-time workers who have not seen the modern kit- chens, start work in the morn- ing, find the pace too hot, and by mid-day decide to leave.

PUBLIC GARDENS

Council gardening is not simply a matter of planting a few seeds and sitting back. In most public gardens flower beds have to be cleared, dug up and set several times out throughout the spring and summer. Potting and re-potting takes olace at nurseries on production- line principles, shrubs and trees pruned lawns motor- are and mown, children's playgrounds supervised and cleaned and refuse and leaves removed in a constant process. In the larger parks, attendants have mopeds to help them carry out their patrol duties.

DRAINAGE AND

REFUSE DISPOSAL

In 1967 the Greater London Council initiated a giant £250 million scheme to modernize London's drainage and refuse dis- posal systems. This included the £10 million incinerator at Edmon- ton and the expansion and development of Beckton and Crossness sewage outfalls.

ROAD

MAINTENANCE

The development of huge two- man road-makers and surfaces has changed the whole concept of road repairs in many areas.

REFUSE COLLECTION

Standardization of paper sacks and plastic dustbins, along with he development of mechanized bin-emptying lorries, has led to speeding-up refuse collection combined with a cut in manning levels. SURELY the councils have a powerful weapon in their claim that they are making savings on the rates? THE TORIES are preparing to slash every service. Every attempt to increase Health Service close charges, direct works departments and hand over the work to 'private enterprise' will be made in the name of 'cutting costs. Rents and rates will rise and services deteriorate. Already many departments are heavily undermanned, but the council's main pre-occupation is with

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of council workers.

JESTIONS AND

making even greater cuts, while they allow outside contractors to make sizeable profits on many jobs. As long as council rents and • rates continue and soar investors can find interest rates of 8, 9 and 10 per cent offered by local authorities all claims of concern for ratepayers' money are worthless.

NCIL

COUNCILS have been trying out time-and- motion schemes for some time. When did this become a political policy for use every. where? THE Prices and Incomes Board produced a report in 1967 cover- ing the pay and conditions of 680,000 manual council workers.

It recommended a short-term policy of work-studied incentive bonus schemes. Although this meant paying extra wages, the continual cut- back in the labour force would reduce the wages bill. The report considered up to 100 per cent increased output possible while 'savings' were put at between £50,000 and £100,000 on a 500 man labour force.

These schemes were to lead to the longer-term aim of shift-.

working, removal of inter-group inter-craft demarcations, or reduction of overtime, 'abolition of mates, job evaluation and the introduction of the Measured- Day Work system. The document explained that MDW was a system 'whereby a fixed addition to the weekly or hourly rate is paid in return for the achievement of a given per- Some schemes had pilot operated before the PIB reached its conclusions, and the Board made them basic government policy ruling for local all authorities. Thousands of local council workers plan to stri opposition to Tory plans to make them scape wage-freeze policy. Bernard Franks looks at : hackground issues which have led to this situat

AND ANSWERS

gaining, running courses on work- Within short time both Labour and Tory councils were study 'appreciation' for shop forecasting all manner of savings stewards. and labour cuts. and General The Greater London Council ' estimated Hall Workers' leaders support that 200 County MDW as an alternative to fight- could be discharged or workers re-deployed. ing for straight wage increases without strings - they have pro- would be 'saved' by duced a booklet on how to nego- €750,000 mobile squads for tiate deals. using work

CARETAKERS-PORTE

GIVE

THE CRUMBS

Te EAT

JAC

One of the keenest supporters maintenance, in- council house output by up of productivity bargaining has work to been the National Union of 200 per cent. Public Employees (NUPE). In January 1969, the National England and Joint Council "Public

TOL

In 1966 its journal included Wales (a body which Employees, under headline union representatives) set out to 'Union have big stake in work- make changes which would save study plans, outlined of a code £25 million a year. for introducing work- principles study schemes which Every local council was given officials had helped the employers until February 1969 to produce lo prepare its productivity plans As "The Times' Business News declared: In May 1967, the same journal congratulated itselt on the sup- 'It is the biggest exercise of its port it had given to the PIB in size ever attempted and has its preparing its report. The general beginnings in the PIB report pub- Sidney Hill) secretary, Cuten lished in 1967. commented: It vital to direct is certainly of it I 'On my initial reading Tories who the fight against the impressed by the fact that was to extend the now propose be the first real it appears to schemes, making council workers attempt, in my 32 years with the bid to the their of consider the needs union, TO hold down wages. the local government and health services and the workers they No one must be allowed to employ!' forget that these schemes were instigated and introduced In the same issue Alan Fisher political measure by Labour (then assistant general secretary) enthused over the report.

He explained that the Board's would proposed first two stages YOU MENTION that lead to a 10 per cent increase it basic rates in return for a 10 per the unions were part of cent saving in total labour costs.

the NJC, does this "This would give us time to mean the union leaders launch the third stage under which we would establish a much have helped to imple- closer relationship between pay bargaining and productivity and ment these schemes? Measured-Day Work well as as the incentive bonus schemes already used in local govern- ment,' he commented.

WITHOUT

union backing these productivity schemes could never "The total effect of this three- have been introduced. stage operation would be to bring The General and Municipal the earnings of local government Workers' Union leadership, for and health employees into a close is of the main relationship with the earnings of of productivity their industry exponents bat- counterparts in Tuesday, September 15, 1870 doing peed workers might be an to strike in direct 200 per cent more for a 30 per cent bonus payment. 'm scapegoats for a Work-studied. incentive bonus is an interim system rationalizing ooks at some of the jobs in preparation for the more intensive MDW system. his situation. In council offices and town halls Organization and Methods (0&M) techniques being are introduced to the prepare way for computers to take over the work. Islington Town Hall NALGO threatened members recently strike action filed in- against formation on every worker.

These dossiers that ments are continually on lookout for show ways to extend 'productivity' methods amongst all sections. HOW DO these sys- tems hold down wages? Surely with initial pay. ments to get the pro- ductivity agreements accepted and with the bonuses this means there is some improve- ment in pay? SOME WAGES increase, but all manner of reasons are given why workers have failed to earn full bonus. Once pay is tied to produc- WE has always aindcate ching tivity the managements and - fight to keep it that way. NUPE general Fisher, now When the cost of living rises action secretary talks about the worker certainly needs more which will make the sewage rise pay to keep up, but what has he in the lavatories. to sell? Does he agree to lowever, he makes no call to another jobs cut or double out- force the Tories to resign or to put yet again. throw the productivity out Many workers who went onto swindle. these schemes between 1966 and 1969 are in exactly this position.

Their 'rise' has been overtaken by galloping price increases.

HOW DOES 'produc- It does not take long to realize tivity' working operate that all talk of pay tied to pro- on local councils? ductivity is just a means to speed up work, cut back jobs and hold down wages.

USUALLY

management, tow, with hired consultants in 'buy' a reduction in HOW CAN the coun- set out to the labour force. cil manual worker win Council offered 220 Camden dustmen a £5 3s minimum bonus this struggle? top of their basic wage agreed provided they the labour force being cut by half.

THE TORIES are determined to make an example of all workers in public and nationalized indus- In other cases the operation Workers direct. in- tries for all the not so lesson told that volved are simply working class. recruitment will cease under the It is significant that gas, , water new scheme and the work force health 'natural supply and national be reduced by the workers all got same treat- wastage'. ment, from the 1967 PIB. report on local authorities. The Tories say the employers' f1 14s offer is reasonable! In words £15 9s a week is a other good wage. A determined battle is needed to throw out the Tories, their schemes and productivity gaining and to win the fl6 10s.

Selective strikes will not meer the worked rength of council workers will make it easier for managements to creep in a few strike-breaking private contractors. An all-out struggle is neces- sary. crafts- men, sewage workers, ambulance workers and grave diggers have all shown there is no lack of fight. All council workers must fight for socialist principles of extend- ing all' direct works and public services. They must be placed under In October, 1969, workers' control to striking council end to sackings and to misuse of workers demon- technical developments. strate through the streets of London Any illusions in union leaders' militancy must dis- demanding a £5 pelled. Increase. Only by joining the All Trades Unions Alliance and To speed working, a full- taking up up work-study the struggle for alternative time department is an socialist introduce bonus leadership in the trade set to schemes based time-and- unions can the policies outlined be put into action. motion study. All times for operations and actions are measured. Dastmen are tim id for picking up a bin, carrying _it to The capitalism and Measurements emptying it. ransitiónal- front are taken from doors to Programme and collecting routes are the van measured. and the The work-study department then issues a job specification of how the job should be done and how long each operation should tasks of the take. Workers are then paid a bonus which varies with the number of standard minute 'credits' they 4th International earn over a fixed level. This payment is directly not the related to output. At new I would like information about -

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Tuesday, September 15, 1970 WHAT ARE the wages and conditions of young actors and actresses when they first get a job ? THE FIRST thing you're faced with leave drama when you school is to find somewhere to work, normally in the provinces assistant stage manager as an

(ASM).

an ASM you are required AS to be a stage hand, a dog's body and to act and you're usually contracted for, say, around seven or eight shows, depending on the season. During the process of a show you'll be doing more work than anyone else in that show and for this you'll be paid between E9 and £ll a week, depending on the grading of the theatre.

West End you would In the be paid at least £18 for the act- ing job and at least f20 for the actual stage management. In the ASM does both provinces, an jobs for his £9. When it comes to a scene- change halfway, through you sei, to chas in se neest end West End whereas in the this would be done by a NATKE member at something closer to a living wage. As an ASM, your working day is: probably from 9.30 in morning to 1l o'clock at night, because you will have to set up before morning rehearsals and stay until after the evening pér- formance. During the day, you' will have little time to eat because you will be tidying up or making tea during the rehearsal breaks or making up for a performance.

have to share a You may small dressing and room one basin with five other ASMs and provide soap and towels yourself.

You get through them because you're taking off grease makeup and it can be quite expensive.

The general state of the dress- ing rooms is normally quite pre- historic - no dusty carpets, wooden chairs and benches. You make up in mirrors that are badly lit. In fact, you can't do the job that you're actually trying to do properly. You're handicapped at every stage and yet you're ex- pected to run the whole show.

Then, of course, you are in the living away from of position away from any kind nome and of centre. The most you can afford is £3 for a small bed- with cooker. They're sitter a pretty disgusting, but when they in the theatre, know you are they start taking you for a ride anyway. HOW FAR is the period as necessary basic training?

THAT WOULD be for the first year, although some are fortunate enough to by-pass it, and basic- ally it is regarded as an exten- of drama school training.

sion In fact, that's a complete fab- you're rication, because not anything. You trained to do allow the company to simply run at low production costs, be- cause they don't have to hire a fully-paid actors large crew or for the smaller parts. In the top repertory companies Bristol — • where in such as a might have 20 large play you actors, and that's very large you will have a good five acting ASMs. Along with that, you will have, say, two technical ASMs who are through same qualified stage managers or light: ing engineers or whatever.

DO CONDITIONS improve when the period as an ASM is over? THE ACTORS themselves, when they have gone through that mill, can be in as bad a situation, be- cause sometimes they might not get any rehearsal pay at all for, say, the first four weeks. They may be contracted to do a play that level acut-off operates. Of course, at this point, people start to settle down; they've got kids and they are running flats and cars and a car is something you really need It is one of the tools of the trade for an actor because you have to carry a lot Actor David Calder talks about acting and the entertainments industry it needs a lot of definition.

IF THE glamorous image of the acting profession was * ecause here is stil things have the impact of economic always the thinnest. veneer. that mystique sur- amass recession has today cracked that shell irreparably.

rounds the theatre and toe waole Illusions will undoubtedly persistably assisted by entertainments industry the capitalist mass media-but it is becoming increasingly the mystique. Part difficult to convince those who take up acting as a career CriSiS that unemployment and the lowest wages are an accept- able part of an actor's life or that they are essential for crisis the best artistic contribution:: entertainment industry, Present cut-backs in the which have led to the closure of film studios like Bore- IN THIS situation, how do hamwood, have meant a rapid rise in the always high you see Equity's campaign level of unemployment among actors and actresses.

for an £18 minimum wage? We talked to a young actor DAVID CALDER-..'one

WELL,

feeling my personal of the lucky ones in work'-who told us something of that we must™ the union the conditions and the present campaign of the actors' support ot a symbolic demand. union Equity for an £18 minimum wecky wage.

al terms f18 still means ery little, relative to the amoun frustration of stuff around and travel up and being f emnloument an actor is ike down the country. evel It just means that for a to get. Then state again y there's i the few gets of the theatres around England.

weeks more -that's all. ( bob in ais DoCket They are mear increaible certainly solves nothing in dirty, really Both these issues are coming Itsell. unhygienic. The important thing is that it's to Previously ane casual at crest respecting worse into worker Previously the casual nature union demand Was take americar herance Side Story )nvousy we don't know wha West the managers are going to say demanded it. As It to this démand. with a su roner, it was worse he mable the that the profession It is popular, it the i Was so eeling that. well, all right It's a bad patco. the lucky sureak wi English eappea and repertory art from being not relis boom not The toilets are disgusting. They reaiV n, but the Bulk stayed. dealing with any problem in the situated tuat the dust accum states under thentre It's inst a ommary steD a forward-looking They wouldit of money to be would emnlovment. movement the union. but it's not posing anything Now it's evident that the not there. are way it sells you for your nexto i become part of the meat and no actor or actress Resin the caree action that high escapes low. Inal with the drama is in that situation, in- there must a conscious nont me extent the panies are putting up. tween unions come to ad hieve five-handee leadership pressures before there isn't anything at plays serials. we

HOW DO

conditions on 55 OF television compare with the because they hership of the theatre theatre? exactly we Well, economic seem to CrISIS this is whole rought out very deepens. reality of this is affecting our atti- actors sue or ownersa they're to what they thought it not Look towards is it insistin tration it's tate a something real terms, something which course, very back now section firmly believe. -is creating this militancy, but lic is people that thev are the the public and inductry hu. it'e on illucinn HOW MUCH of the year is

NEW PARK PURLICATIONS

an actor actually working?

Which here 16,000 nd actors aery to find the money for he for in- small companies. right through to television and the theatre

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

IN WHAT way is this affect-

BY ROBERT BLACK

ing the thinking of actors?

IT'S HARD to say. There is in- militanci in the union raises great dangers ahead if this militancy grans at straws. It comes out of the most in-

WORKERS PRESS

IMPERIALIST plunder of colonial and ex- colonial peoples is not exactly a new pheno- menon. The closest analysis of the capitalist mode of production and its development into its highest — imperialist - stage have, of necessity, been at the struggle for centre Marxism from the standpoint imperialism of destroying through proletarian revolution.

Of course, capitalism has re- ceived a great deal of attention from other quarters with other designs in mind. The yearly output of books and doctoral theses which seek to sanctify the status quo eco- nomically and politically albeit with this or that criticism and helpful suggestion-must indeed be tremendous. The 'plight' of the people in the 'developing' countries is a favourite topic. A few years ago, when to speak of the end of the boom taboo in post-war was bourgeois circles, much was writ- ten about the problem of 'take- off' in the underdeveloped coun- tries. The bad, old imperialist days the story went, and were gone, the 'newly-independent coun- tries' were nations in their own right, with their own economies, own Westminsters and a their little of everything that labelled a country as Christian and civil- ized. No more talk about the white man's burden and 'enlightening the natives'! All that was necessary, the tale philan- continued, some was thropic aid and a bit of techno- know-how and whoosh logical 'take-off'--the economies would suddenly their generate and everybody own momentum TRADE UNION leaders are very proud of their record on productivity bargaining.

At last week's Trades Union general secretary Congress, Vic Feather referred glowingly to the 'signing of more than 3,000 productivity bargains in the last three years ... and •.. the appointment of union productivity officers. Congress finally decided not to fight productivity speed-up and unemployment, but to investigate how employers are getting more profit from fewer to see whether workers and the price was right. Indeed, productivity seems to have a fatal fascination in these circles. The spirit of pioneering is abroad when it comes to aiding squeeze the last the boss to drop of blood from those who happen to still be at work.

September's issue of the Transport and General journal 'Record'. Workers' reports that 'a fascinating and welcome (!) problem has been posed in the cement industry by quite enormous advances in technology and productivity'- how to get 300 men to do 3,000 men's jobs with the mini- mum of trouble. The article on page 11 goes on: "The fact that it occurs in an industry that is hostile to productivity bargaining makes the problem even more attrac- Two new kilns are being introduced in the North Fleet Cement Works of the Asso- ciated Portland Cement Com- pany. Their output potential is equivalent to that of the com- pany's present seven cement works on the north and south side of the Thames which pro- duce high of a proportion Britain's cement. Voluntary redundancies have been negotiated, but what about the 'lucky' 300? Just in case anyone was likely to think that the savings in wages might by chance find into workers' their way pockets, the 'Record' puts the record straight: 'The wages structure at present, after considerable attempts to convert the com- pany to productivity bargain- one of job- ing, remains evaluated rates on a basic rate.

'Faced with the prospect of productivity multiplying by something in the order of 900 obviously per cent, job evaluation won't be able to cope!' Obviously some other way of convincing workers that Poverty still plagues of the world. would live happily ever after • solution for the worsening con- 'developing' Naturally, the ditions

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there was still poverty, "underdeveloped', mind) etc., but coun- this was only natural- -like capi- tries. talism itself- and if didn't The subject is Prospects for you like it, there was always Oxfam, Employment Opportunities in the War on Want and many other 1970s' and an impressive amount make you feel of being brought brain power is better. to bear. So the story went. But devel- Ninety from representatives 40 opments didn't quite match over countries and inter- up to the academic apologetics.

national organizations are attend- The breaking up the post- Inficials and academics. including ministers, senior heralded by the war boom Was sound of political thunder. Mili- The World Bank and the Inter- tary dictatorship replaced the American Development Bank will Westminsters and 'take-off' time also be represented was never quite reached. that no one is under the Casure However, the academic factor- impression that the discussion is the purely of academic interest.

ies continue to produce theories order, ever compas- According to preliminary notes sionate for the lot of the world's underprivileged. on the conference issued by the Ministry Overseas Develop- OI At present, a conference is be- ment, the problem is immense.

ing held Cam- Jesus College, Unemployment, bridge, which hopes to throw outside the metropolitan capitalist countries light find some and some and the around 25 ore cer states, runs at Der cent. In Nigeria in 1965, urban un- employment was 10.6 per cent in Lagos and 12.6 per cent overall.

"That the majority of urban unemployed should be under 25 them years many of OI art. school leavers,' says the blurb, *is perhaps the most pathetic side they are not really producing of The problem the picture. of wealth necessary, unemployment in developing more 15 above all the although 'our people require a countries prob- lem of youth.' fair share of the results of technical progress'. Obviously, less youth Gleefully, the article runs less unemployment: 'Most perturbing is the "The forthcoming population explosion-the deep- negotia- intractable tions will be literally pioneer- and cause of unemployment.?' Simple! ing. But pioneering what? Rather However, the implications of well-trodden paths, we fear.

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proposals — all couched in the nicest phraseology-indicate the future that is held out to the majority of the world's popula- tion as the imperialist crisis accelerates. 'More places in schools and universities have outrun the numbers of paid jobs in the mod- ern sector available to leavers.

High standards of living in cities and towns compared with those in the rural areas also attract labour away from the land in search of urban employment which does not exist. Lastly, modern technology, ap- plied to agriculture and industry as the most efficient means of increasing the production wealth, tends, in the short term (i), to destroy more jobs than it creates.' Again the implications aré clear. What's the point of educa- tion if there's no jobs? Why invest in modern machiner!

if it provides little employment The second point is pressed home: 'For example, assume a case in which £100,000 is available to increase textile production. If it is invested in a modern textile factory it could produce an extra output of say £40,000 and 100 new jobs. 'Alternatively the sum could be invested in handspinning and weaving which could produce an output of only £20,000 but 1,000 extra jobs. "The conflict between getting maximum output for capital and getting maximum employment out of it is, in this case, dramatic enough to illustrate the dilemma of choosing between labour-in- tensive and capital-intensive tech- nologies in development policy.'

This is indeed a policy for underdeveloping developing coun- tries! This is the language of the imperialist crisis. In better times, the export of brutal. With indpendence camle capital was direct and the system of 'aid'-large loans for investment tied to high inter- est rates - by courtesy of tbe World Bank and various 'devel- opment' organizations. While ensuring sizeable re- turns for the donors, for the recipients it meant industrial starvation, while. the emphasis was on primary production for export. Now, even this phase of de- velopment is coming to an end.

While the latest transistor radios may be offered to those who are voluntarily sterilized, its back to the Middle Ages and beyond in everything else.

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WORKERS PRESS

Tuesday, September 15, 1970

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