Workers Press no. 254

workers press

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1970

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER

254

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

Miners' Doom-watch report on 'agitators' What pay claim we think A new warning is in Defend danger Rudi

MANY

HOUSANDS

trade unionists Dutschke. from THE Tal eason under peo Durschke bac o sent to w Get com the government It must be s clash since took dice. Such nostruggle will first without delay. decisively

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leaders' Britain allone l to stay here as long wages strategy i The only reason Rudi is bein Nation ence hen spites in 1

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labour movement. DO YOU KNOW why Concorde is a failure? Do you know why the GKN strikers are proving so intractable? Do you know why the car industry is being paralysed? Do you know why 'our' balance of trade is going to pot? Police used Do you know why the wales solution cond skills, culture, ower, trad e held in con for strike action to back it up.

again on pay umpki Questions alike? Do you? You don't 8o bow far is it prepared Well, don't bother for tur protest colest ot

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men *British citizenship. be given By Industrial reporter Re nonte t these things take and

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chair. SLL national secretary G. Healy giving the first of two lectures on Monday night.

pated himation, 07€ 600 hear of verdict. Trotsky's fight carrying less than the Home minimum of five me AN AUDIENCE of 600 brave ary party represented at ther mi nee Stalin. Protest manl in the inter- Anglo sittee of 1925. British Communist assassination in Mexico. to building a beries This first dealt La with A denial of their rights by th struggle ories would the workin of its indeper sias principally. wto mugh to alike the Sovie nent and oher workers com and Her or lion in the markets The best bert radion from shrinking. the orces this country. It has Real cause He ming that an or

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The Pilkington Defeat the struggle and the proposed lon been September £1,000 Appeal Fund right to strike anti-union laws stands at £45 6s 8d St George's Hall, Lime St Liquidated

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increases despera te strings Saturday October 3 › forced to liquidate ment wet the will munemp enin': 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. necks halted increases

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

PFLP GAINING LEADERSHIP

THE SPECTRE of civil war and revolution now haunts the pro-British Hussein regime in Jordan.

Far from being isolated,

RELEASE

the Nasserites and Stalinists claim and hope,

LEILA KHALED!

the Popular Front for the is O resine winning the political leader- THE FOLLOWING resolution was ship of the guerrilla move- passed unanimously by the audience drawing its strength ment at the Socialist Labour League's and audacity from the sup- Trotsky Memorial Lecture on Mon- of the Jordanian

DONE

people. day nient: Only for as ferder. leaflets This meeting of the general strike Socialiet Labour League recognizes the inviolable right bank Jordan were people to self-determination distributed by PFLP. Supports just all suusales The leaflets called for the against the Zionist ana release of Palestinians arrested imperialist repre- тепасе the series ot scalcd by the sate orismel over the week-end. The historic interests of Jews and guerrilla strike_call. the total dest issued under the noses of the

WILLOT

destruction of this Zionist Zionist police and lows the provocaron and its replacement ccupation democratic and the second incenendent largest socialist Palestine. Jordan, by Palestiniar We therefore commando movement to de fend, revo-

ENRAGED

the ationary actions peoples against the Enraged by the massacre tha 25 Arah whose commandoes ment mutilated were and unconditional played in the Arab people

DO ITCH

stormed within prisoners and police stations c'Hussein's Israel. and police army force We and demand, in particular, were nounced out thaled by the guerrillas are now in com- mmediate release of Leil plete control of the town and the LorY govern. 30 mile: of the road leading from Irbid Amman, We appeal miles lewish the Palestinian workers hreat tron refugee camp Hussuna. six miler outside Irbid police the camp surrendered their guns to the Israeli labour and trade union guerrillas. movement Amman, a PFLP spokes with 54 ві яск Tne worker and yesterday Armers the being hostages relize of the inid-East. Common- held Tea 17e Socialiet exchance rillas in Zionist and imperialis prisons would not be released Down Zionism, Stalinism and imperialism.

NO RETREAT

• Long 'There the room for live solidarit said. Jewish, Arab and The Israeli ratreat' in p British workers! government must first an- Доносе release Long live the rillas, only guer and f two lectures on Monday night.

Ther the Arab revolution! rront take necessary

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the exchande the Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared that the • held La Miss Khaled ries in and EnC rillas in Swiss and W 'sentence prisons wouldne of death and mutilation of un- known Israel future' being 'mutilated' the hi-jacked hostages and alike non- en with the utmost been treated courtesy purser Joseph Swinkel.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Trans-World Airline • Pield, tha blown at Dawson's CAR WORKERS at 31 General Motors factories told 'There rabbi his prayers who throughout the US and Canada began an official strike on with all carried time there yesterday.

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The deadline for negotiation of their new three-year

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

Monday expired night. Hard pressed by the 350,000 The second of Two rank-and-file, union negotiators as a 'non-offer have rejected Trotsky Memorial Lectures une emplovers provosal torI staggered wage increase of 5.

cents to be spread over the next three years. "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' The union is demanding 75 cents over three

BEAVER HALL

Nearly half • the rise,

GARLICK HILL

from expired owing Near Mansion House tube Contracts Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s which was inked omet

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inereases aver the last three years.

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real value of the So the offer over the first year

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amounts precisely four

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strike against one the •Big Three' notor firms (Ford, Chrysler). He publicly opposed striking Lecture given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

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workers press

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1970

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER

254 •

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Miners' Doom-watch report on 'agitators' What we think pay claim A newwarning is in Defend danger Rudi

MANY

THOUSANDS

be wade umonists Will Dutschke. watching today's pay talks from THE between miners leaders and for two very good reasons.

the 30000 mimes doin pay increases ca to the labour movement: cent heralds the without delication and struggle wecisi

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Las rence baty, left'-talking seat al has

HAELBANDA

lickspittles tabour movement : to the full resist DO YOU KNOW why Concorde is a failure? Do you know why prevent a satisfactory settle Thah in what Mediat means the GKN strikers are proving so intractable? Do you know why the paralysed? Do you know why 'our' balance of car industry is being trade is going to pot? Police used Maudlinters to know why

WU YOU

kills, culture, power, trai public, he means lons. etc. are held in cr Tory and Liberal public again on pay tempt AraD querina and not anyone else. Questions bumpkins andaronshire alike? Do you? You don't!

Just how far is it prepared Well, don't bother to turn is equally eel miners protest Primes and

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fire- acoricte of Printing The

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men He min tenship. be given res macca, uke une Acan Bad Redone of in ere din as By Industrial reporter were

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called to

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Hadleigh fire station in a deute the bore ped Essex for the second time am in the head. remen refused senior officers leave Ruditan tor medical treat racis premises. Hre a1 Doom-watch now been locker orities ed guaran can support of a pa ng their рона на lemand that

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calend Britain Monaa from He carried out this atever hit stations subective feelings ver the stepped old SLL national secretary G. Healy giving the first of two lectures on Monday night.

conditions When Rudi tried to improve 600 hear of into rosite Trotsky's fight AN AUDIENCE of 600 braved of important ser society attend beaver oli Tory Party and it in this countr mani presents itsepPortunity Anion Committee of 1925 n civilization was bee Their hatsed toda the Dursike and hated. nation should be blessed se and together struggleealt with A dories of their is to by th agains solt now to retum 0926 General Strike Comrade Healy class principally. descrided how, after th theolshevil dissociate Leadership? but Workers Pres The seat at the Bring wor the best liberal traditions of from shrinking tied bestind full-time has Real cause Moscow. for overtime duties at night And certainly won't nin bureaucratic and express see

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ections in Soviet revolution opinions freely. mine the satis

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lashing attacks against intern the ocial pitalist system and Tories out of it.

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The Pilkington GKN strike has not struggle and the proposed Tory September £1,000 Appeal Fund right to strike anti-union laws Cause stands at f45 6s 8d berte the dock emp St George's Hall, Lime St Liquidated

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relain its posper this arive to • to Each month, to al, e lar ben i Bi. This gives us Saturday October 3 I to cil the Ate confident our readers ell 'Moscow support core Worker 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. of therefore workeross-the-board rade real many liberals and Communis

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

PFLP GAINING LEADERSHIP

THE SPECTRE of civil war and revolution now haunts the pro-British Hussein regime in Jordan.

Far from being isolated,

RELEASE

Nasserites and the Stalinists claim and hope,

LEILA KHALED!

the Popular front lor the of Palestine is Liberation winning the political leader- THE FOLLOWING resolution was ship of the guerrilla move- passed unanimously by the audience ment, drawing its strength the Socialist and audacity from the sup-

GLADONT

Learne's Trotsky Memorial Lecture on Mon- port the Jordanian day night: people. Only yesterday eatet, This meeting of the Socialist calling for a general strike Labour Zionist-occupied „learne reco nines the Palestinian and West were invoabe right of the people self-determination and distributed by PFLP supports the The leaflets called for the Arabs and release of Palestinians arreste in the sented by the state of Israel.

Lionist laid. over mie week-enol Ths catoot be rest we out The guerrilla strike-call, Arabs cannot issued under the noses or the the total destruction of this Zionist occupation or Irbid fol-

TAONIST

provocation did Its renacemen Inwe the and largest democratic Cordman do movement. Jordan, Palestinian We therefore therefore ple all to de- fend, revo

ENRAGED

lutionary of the peoples Enraged by the massacre of the US-Soviet 'peace 25 Alas commandoes

WHOSE

fight for ment and mutuated COrNSAC WATe nic. immediate and city square, the D aver In the of people stormed Tonin risoners within and city seines willout Israel and police allily force hounded out We demand, particular were ane! the immediate release of Leil une cuedias are nowm comi Khaled by the Tory town and ot the

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ment. miler from Amman, rhid We appeal all Jewish miles to the workers break Palestinian Trom Utonia of Zionism reactionam six ussulla. reject opportunist and tha mie canD DOlICE misleadership the ra cist their guns surrendered Israeli labour and trade guerrilas Amman. a PAl contac Arab workers man announced yesterdas farmers the the 54 hi-jack hostage being StrugglE socialist held for reane Common. with guer wealth of the Mid-Fast. rillas in Zionist and imperalsi prisons would not be released Dalism and imperonism,

NO RETREAT

Long live the solidarity 'There roe Israeli TO1 Jewish said. A man retreat' must first British workers! government nounce its readiness release • Long live the and I two lectures on Monday night.

ler Arab revolution! would ront the necessary steps Ine exchange. the Israeli Earlier Foreigr Minister declared release of Miss Leila that the Khaled (still held Tories in Ealing police anta she • Six S other and Germar would be prisons sentence of death ane mutation ot un. victims the known Israe future'. Far from the hi-jacked hostages treated the utmost courtesy. Joseph Swinkel, purser of

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

tho Trap -W Dawson's Field, Trans World Airline CAR WORKERS at 31 General Motors factories told reporters: "There throughout the US and Canada began an official strike all there yesterday.

PAGE FOUR COL. 7

The deadline for negotiation of their new three-year con-

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

tract expired Monday night. Hard pressed by the 350,000 The second of Two rank-and-file, union negotiators rejected Trotsky Memorial Lectures stagered wage increase of 54 proposal the employers' spread cents an nour the next three vears. "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' Nearly half of this

BEAVER HALL

it has been

GARLICK HILL

Near Mansion House tube cost-of-living contract s Starta 8 p.m. was linked over the last price Admission Za in creases

TROTSKYS LAST WORDS

years.

IAM CONFIDENT OF

real value of the over the first year

THE VICTORY OF THE

oHar amounts to precisely four

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

cents!

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strike against one of the 'Big Three' motor firms (Ford, GM and Chrysler). He bublicly opposed strikir Lecture given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

PAGE TWO

THE AIM of modern industrial production is to turn all work processes from individual or batch' methods into con- tinuous flow process incorporating automated systems and under com- puter control. Research and development towards is being directed this end in most industries.

In steel production research is going on into a continuous flow process which enables raw materials to be passed into a system from various hoppers at one end, while steel con- from the tinually streams other. Attempts are • also being made to regulate beer produc- tion along these lines. One of the most vicious and dangerous departments which workers are now facing is that of mechanical spying and con- trolling systems. The two most used, the tachograph widely and telecontrol, should examined in detail.

TACHOGRAPH

The 'Black Box, or as road call it 'the- haulage workers spy-in-the-cab', is a recording instrument designed to give management information on every aspect of the operation of a vehicle by its driver.

In particular, it records dis- tances covered, stops made and speed at which the vehicle has travelled. Originally developed by the Kienzle Apparate Factory in the Black Forest area of Ger- many more than 40 years ago, its use was extended to a con- siderable degree by the Nazi from 1939 onwards, regime when it became compulsory in some vehicles. After the war it was dropped from use, but was revived in Germany and other countries during the early 1950s, when became compulsory it on specified vehicles. Essentially, the tachograph incorporates a clock mechan- ism which rotates a disc graph on which a number of stylus pens record information. Some of this material is transmitted by a cable from an adaptor on the vehicle gearbox in the same way as a normal speedometer drive. Other information links may be made which can indicate use of a tipping mechanism,.

discharge pumps, or even of warning lights and sirens on

IMPORTANT R

Two articles by

PAM

Trade unions i New Park publications 186A Clapham High St. SW4. fire appliances and ambulances.

Some models can record for 24 hours only, but others run for seven or eight days. Some types are able to indi- cate which of a number of drivers has been operating the vehicle at any particular time, as initial starting of the device before moving off be must made with a key. Each driver holds a different key and each key leaves a different imprint on the graph when used. An extremely revealing article on the tachograph in the Journal and proceedings of the Institute of Road Trans- port Engineers (December 1969) explains the use of the ' instrument: "Tachographs are primarily productivity devices, so as such they are of more immedi- ate importance to the opera- tional and organizational sides of a fleet in that they can assist transport managers in accurately scheduling their vehicle journeys, enable them to pin-point undue delays and hold-ups, keep track of their drivers' movements and methods of working, provide indisputable evidence of the number of hours worked and how those hours were divided between actual driving and stationary time, and - when necessary — provide positive evidence which should be acceptable in the courts as to the location and speed of a vehicle any time during its journey.' But it also explains that a fleet engineer can be trained to read many more facts from the graph. Why some vehicles are more heavy on fuel than others.

Why some vehicles get through tyres and brakes more quickly than others. Whether a driver has been descending hills in the wrong gear. If the driver has taken the engine straight up to maximum speed from a cold start. And so on. But further: 'By use of a twin-eyepiece stereoscopic microscope, a diagram chart can be enlarged by up to 80 times, although usually a magnification of 16 or 25 is sufficient to give accurate assessment of speed, time and distance. Much of the process used for such highly-detailed analysis is a closely-guarded secret, but in

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'Tachographs (top right) are primarily productivity devices... to pin-point undue delays and hold ups, keep track of their drivers movements and methods of working, provide indisputable evidence of the number of hour worked..: Institute of Road Transport Engineers. BY

BERNARD

FRANKS

Kienzle's special ciple is not new; it is a case patented microscope table has variation on telemetering, been developed which enables where the working of an un- a diagram chart to be rotated manned pump, valve or meter by the observer to the is relayed via telephone cables accuracy of a single second.

to central point SO that The decided article adds that action can be and information obtained by these taken. methods 'can be plotted on a This is used in system graph to give a foot-by-foot nuclear reactor control, power and second-by-second account stations and sewage stations of the vehicles progress'.

The difference here operation. On this basis: is that it is the workers who are constantly under observa- 'It is even possible to' tell if tion. a vehicle's driving wheels lock The "The magazine Auto- during a breaking stop, and at mobile Engineer' has outlined what speed braking occurred an example of one such system The article is at great pains which has been introduced in to point out that the device is the CAV factory at Sudbury.

fool-proof and 'fiddle-proof.

The management set out to Only demagnetized materials rationalize the production are used in its construction. fuel-iniector systems, which Also, an indication is left on they produce in millions each by bringing some newly. the chart every time the cover year,

PART EIGHTEEN OF A REGULAR

is opened and the microscope adopted manufacturing tech- reveals the difference between and handling niques equip- the scribing and any ment under computer control.

stylus that might other marks be The aim in particular was to made on the chart. rationalize the work of indirect Another article, this time in operators — supervisors, pro- controllers, 'Commercial Motor' explains duction wages 'productivity' advantage of clerks, machine maintenance one the device as follows: workers, whose productivity would otherwise have re- It is more economical to mained at normal level'. study vehicle performance The new system called tele- mechanically by tachograph charts than by employing work- control is an electric complex study officers.' which, says the article, gives real time-control of machines, From 1975, all new vehicles carrying dangerous goods and engaging in international haul- Common age in the Market fitted must be with tacho- graphs and by 1978 all vehicles

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area covered by in the the regulations will have to carry them. Britain, In provision was made for their introduction by the Trainister A of, though the then Minister Transport, Richard Marsh, said in 1969 that they will not yet be made compulsory. The latest development of this instrument rests again with the Kienzle Company, which is shortly to introduce an £18,000 computer which can analyse tachograph records and in particular, reveal in- adequate drivers'. Lorry drivers have reacted violently to any attempt to impose this all-round spy, and many have told employers in no uncertain terms that its use is "iust not on'.

TELECONTROL

tooling, materials and labour' The latest method of assert- and which 'contributes signifi- ing control over workers is to cantly to the pace of produc- tion'. The speed is possible set up an electronic spying 'through economy of effort and system by which every machine in a factory linked elimination of wasted time'.

is to central control point. The report describes the Small switches attached to set-up as follows: various parts of each machine 'At the beginning of each information back to relay shift. details of the components central panel. The number of being manufactured are issued components produced and the by the controller to the shop- for production time taken on floor supervisor: then all oper- each machine is recorded and ations are controlled from the transferred to a graph. tele-control centre. Attached Each machine carries a con- to each machine is a sensing trol unit which is also linked device which counts compon- to the central control, so that ents as they are produced. its on/off state can machine be moni- "Each also has a tored at any The prin- time. control box which, by combin-

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ations of coloured lights, in- dicates the production status of the machine. By means of what is termed a help switch and a telephone point, the operator and chargehand re- spectively communicate can with the tele-control centré.

The status of a machine can be changed only by the charge- wer hand in conjunction with the controller. •For example, the charge- hand may switch the machine to down-time after specifying the help required for the machine or operator. 'In the tele-control centre a controller and one assistant sit in front of display boards, each which covers so many machines. Coloured lights on these panels correspond to the "status" of machine at each at any time, i.e.:

GULAR SERIES

'Productive time, non-pro- ductive time, job nearing com- pletion, down-time, chargehand required, material required, quality inspector required, and setter required. 'A separate record of éach machine's production details is available at all times from the monitoring panel. When a machine operator needs help, he switches to the "help" sec- tion on his control box. This sets his section of lights flash- ing in the control room in- dicating what sort of help he wants. The controller uses a public address system to call up the required aid. If a chargehand is wanted, say, he will visit the machine and, if necessary, will switch it to authorized down-time in conjunction with the con- troller.' The chargehand carries round a portable telephone in a hol- ster which he can plug into the machine control box to discuss points with the con- troller. The sensors on the machine continue to pass information back along the phone line, when the conversation even 40 30 *20 -10 takes place. The control room, of course, does not have to wait for requests from opera- tors for assistance. On examination of the sen- sor information, the controller may decide that a machine is full capacity not running at and can send a chargehand along to check up. At the end of each shift, a operator/ report on each machine performance is avail- able, giving such details as machine and operator's num- ber, productive time, non-pro- ductive time, and the number of pieces produced. It can also give a detailed run-down on the non-produc- tive time, number of stoppages etc. The computer associated with this system analyses the performance of each machine, each department, each opera- tion, and also the performances of the entire factory, reporting the results to the management.

It also lays out a mainten- ance schedule, so putting main- tenance personnel on the same 'jump-to-it' basis as other staff.

Further, it makes up the pay-roll and has 'facilitated the introduction of incentive schemes for workpeople based on the level of efficiency of the machine they operate'.

Basing payments on the efficiency of the machine means that a high production level can be put down to a highly efficient machine and A recent mass meeting at CAV Acton where stewards moved the acceptance of Tele-control systems in the factory. They have since been installed but are not yet functional. not to the work of the oper- ator. On this basis, high pro- duction does not mean high bonus levels. Under bonus conditions the computer would translate the different status times per oper- ator into waiting time, stan- dard performance, etc. It may be wondered how the status of a machine can only be changed if the chargehand says so. Surely if a hitch occurs the machine will have to slow down or stop? On this, the report says: "The operator is trained to anticipate difficulties and call for assistance before it is necessary to stop his machine.'

50 60° 70- This system is now in oper- ation at Sudbury, and the article adds: "Payroll activity has nearly doubled and the inherent dis- ciplines of a fully-mechanized manufacturing unit are being reflected in a much higher A more recent report: 'CAV Fazakerly, An Introduction to Telecontrol, April 1969' states that: 'A time mechanism in the control room records elapsed time throughout the shift at intervals of 1/100th hour (36 séconds). A switch on the machine control box deter- whether the mines elapsed time is recorded as "produc- tive" or "downtime", for each machine, on the CMU (count memory unit). Other definitions are given as follows: *Downtime is initiated by the operation of the downtime switch on the machine control box by production supervision.

A machine will be put on to downtime when it is not in a position to be run, e.g. wait- ing operator, machine break- down, etc. 'A downtime "incident" ends when the machine is returned to a productive state (by press- ing the re-set button on the machine control box), or when the reason for downtime alters, e.g. was "machiné breakdown" now "waiting operator". Total downtime is the sum of all downtime "incidents" recorded against a machine within the shift. •Productive time is recorded when a machiné, having work and an operator available, is

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BY ROBERT BL

NEW PARK PUBLICATION:

Wednesday, September 16, 1970 considered to be in a "run- ning" condition. It does not indicate that a machine is ac- tually producing Piece counts will only be recorded on the

CMU

when the machine's status is "productive". "Piece counts are generated at each machine by sensing de- record the pro- which vices, duction of a component. Methods of sensing vary de- pending on the machine type, its environment and the parts it is making. Examples of sensors are: micro-switches, probes, proximity coils on air- veyors and simple "palm push" switches. "The piece count is trans- mitted to the CMU via the machine control box.' The 'advantage' of this set- up to the operator is that not only is it unnecessary for him to leave his machine, but that he does not even have to stop or slow it down for any reason.

He not only need not, but cannot. ( This system is the most monstrous method of enslaving workers to the processes of production yet devised. Each chargehand and super- visor will have the full, irre- futable weight of the analysed production figures of his de- partment strapped to his back at the end of each shift and he will have to act accordingly if his own position is not to fall into question. • There will be no excuses for slowing production. Machines will run until they fail mechan- ically, workers will run until the shift ends. The still machine will be the biggest crime in the book and - it will cause commotion until it is running again. No excuses from any quar- ter can stand against the micro- switches' probing and the com- puter's final analysis. As for lost time, this would have to be made up, not writ- ten off. The computer would store it and put it forward at a later date to be made up.

• The supervisor's "back-to- normal' report would come, not when the fault was recti- fied, but only when the lost time is made up and produc- tion is once more on schedule.

Nor is this the limit to this system. It is quite feasible that at a later date the computer will not only monitor and analyse, but will also control and direct production. The chargehand will eventu- ally end up reporting to the computer direct. Onco bonus or incentive is involved, the tele-control system, in effect, becomes a permanent work- study spy, far more efficient than the man with the stop- watch. And, of course, the next logical step for the employers, and one they will be scheming out how to put across, will be closed- the introduction circuit television into the system. This would put real meaning into tele-control.

Under capitalism, the inven- tion machines and new equipment brings aneven greater intensity of labour for those still left with jobs, in- stead of the easier, safer and more interesting working life for the worker. The falling rate of profit and ever larger quantities of com- modities brought on to the market by the new methods brings further crisis and bank- ruptcy. Only nationalization of the major industries, banks and finance houses, without com- pensation, with the books to be opened by the workers to see where the money has gone and what deals are being oper- ated can ensure that modern techniques are developed for the well-being and not to the detriment of the working class.

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ROBERT BLACK

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Wednesday, September 16, 1970 IN HER book 'Only One Year', Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, mentions the dacha, the country villa, she lived in at Zhukovka near Moscow. The had built government of several these two-storey, buildings heated, wooden, as rewards for Russian scientists.

'After widows began a walle selling dachas to other categories of Soviet rich, SO that among chemists and mathe- appeared the maticians now cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and Shostako- the composer Dmitrı vich. 'At last, with the passing of 1953, after much talk about cur- tailing the ever-distending gov- transpired crument apparatus. Workers Press n that the apparatus had distended were not even more and tnere dachas enolen So three more settlements round. were built.' Last Wednesday's 'Times' from Lithuania carried a report that indicates that the dacha is still thriving business among Soviet bureaucrats. The Vilnius correspondent of the newspaper 'Country Life' had been to see the dacha of a local co-op chief.

It was built on concrete pillars and beside waterfall was lavishly appointed. the news-hawk inter- When viewed the owner of a neighbour- ing dacha, the manager of a farm

ITS THE

same the whole responded machinery depot, by offering the journalist a new world over. In Holland, as in car. Britain, the employers and 'Don't anything about write how I got building materials for their agents are always 'dis- my cottage, and I won't mention with the car, said providing you covering' plots by agitators this very kind Soviet citizen. The newsman reported this conversa- behind every movement of first deputy tion to the mayor of Vilnius. the working-class. But this gentleman had just The mayor of Rotterdam moved into public recreation Dutch Labour member of the compensation for zone, called Thomassen re- being 'foreed' to make the more, vealed in a TV interview a week and building swimming pool that he knew the ago Tuesday with the proceeds. real leaders of the dock strike.

Such 'exposures' frequently He had from 'two definite it crop up in Soviet papers.

Getting sources' that the movement smaller fry helps to keep was at The 'Maoists', directed by trained in the Soviet workers off the backs and getting their instruc- Paris of the really big bureaucrats. tions from Albania. it does give a glimpse However, Dutch parliament heard a into life in Brezhnev's 'socialist' The definite- different-but just as worthily continuing the state, Stalin tradition. story. Mrs Gandhi remain vacant. Mrs Gandhi THE SUMMIT conference of an- nounced India's support for this in 'non-aligned' powers view. Fifteen other countries, how- Lusaka, Zambia, last week non-aligned, that ever, were so had a difficult opening season.

they didn't tell anyone what they Here were the representatives thought. The result? of the 'third world', Monday after- After spending and beloved by the New Left, noon Tuesday was debating the matter, faced with the question: decided Cambodia should that the which of the two Cambodian be represented, because

HOL

'could not pronounce conference governments was more non- on the internal affairs of a mem- ber country'. aligned? So, 'non-aligned' to these Twenty-one countries, includ-

CIA

followed statesmen, coups ing Cuba, Syria, Libya and by invasion by the US army and by the US airforce are allow Sarin bombings Algeria, wanted. Chhak, foreign minister in Prince 'internal'. 'non-alignment' Sihanouk's be This is what government, is all about. Pretending the Cambodian representative. form TO Seven states, led by Swaziland, a 'third camp' between the Soviet and Malaysia Laos, thought the Union and imperialism, Tito and Nol CIA-installed prot cindhi ee al aperis ists and Lon regime should have that position.

imperialists Twelve nations took the more the Soviet bureaucracy from the cautious line that the seat should working class. I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

LEAGUE,

SECRETARY,

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186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name ….... Address Stalin with his daughter Svetlana at his country villa.

'WOODSTOCK'

is a documentary. It is the film of an event which has been given con- siderable attention, and a good deal of approval by the news media. An event which is referred to in the publicity material for the film, with that touching modesty known of assertion well American film distributors, being 'the emergence of a new nation in America'. 655.55.....ao Unsuspecting readers may feel that emergence of such the nation might involve something of an upheaval, birth pangs of considerable cimensions. even a strugge - but no. three-day The event was a music festival rock-and-pop greeted almost with ecstasy by the guardians of the American way of life. 'Love' No lovers of pop music and long hair they, so it is important that we should understand what A Calvinist MP called Schakel they are so pleased about.

said he knew for certain that the trouble in Amsterdam the was The festival took place in New of Mafia. Their work the aim York State in August 1969, and make the port the centre was to the myth-makers now refer to it of the European drug trade. as 'three days of peace music...

The Minister of Justice said he and love'. but had heard about this also, had been unable to verify it.

It is estimated that at least As with all such 'explanations' 400,000 people-mostly under the of strikes, the revelations of age of 30- and more -came to it. Mynheeren Schakel and Thomas- would the have if sen leave us wondering just how roads had not been blocked off.

of thousands workers be They listened to performances persuaded to stop work by people who keep their identity a closely- by most of the big names in pop music, and camped out by night.

guarded secret. However, judged as fiction, the Dutch stories mark a big advance.

More than people came were Introducing elements from and the facilities the expected, exotic orient and the world of inadequate. Food short, ran crime, they make Harold Wilson's businessmen from the surround- revelation that the 1966 seamen's ing areas prospered ('For those of strike was the work of a 'tightly- who believe that capitalism you of group politically moti- isn't that weird, you can still buy vated men' look a bit tame.

hamburgers', said the TV

BBC 1

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4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Snow White. 5.15 Tom Tom. 5.44 Babar. 5.50 News and weather. 6.00 NATIONWIDE. London. 6.45

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7.10 TOM AND JERRY CARTOON.

7.20

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.

SOFTLY, SOFTLY — TASK FORCE. 'Baptism'.

8.10 9.00 NEWS and weather. SIX WEDNESDAY PLAYS. 5. 'The Mark-Two Wife'. Anna 9.20 (Faith Brook) is a mysterious uninvited guest at a fashionable party. 10.30

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8.00 TIMES REMEMBERED. Gladys Britton.

8.10 WHAT SORT OF WORLD DO WE WANT? Part 2. Learning to live. 9.00 FANNY AND JOHNNIE CRADDOCK. Saturday dinner.

9.20 SHOW OF THE WEEK. Scott on industry.

10.05 FACE THE MUSIC. Quiz.

10.45 NEWS, weather. 10.50 LINE-UP.

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6.02 TODAY. 6.30 THE SAINT.

7.30 CORONATION STREET.

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9.00 SPECIAL BRANCH. 'The Pleasure of Your Company'.

10.00 NEWS AT TEN.

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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. From De Montfort Hall.

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...... Guest reviewer

BEN

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.... "The event was a three-day rock- and-pop music festival greeted almost with ecstasy by the guardians of the American way of life? at one point), and the festival site turned into mud under heavy rain. The whole place was eventuall leclared a disaster area by thi authorities. Not the kind of location you would expect to find the Ameri- can establishment sitting in, and indeed they were not. But they did take much heart from what was going on. What so warmed them, was that the festival engendered a of "togetherness' great feeling the people who were amongst there, and that this feeling be- came an end in itself, as though just the feeling was enough.

What we would call head in the sand-or in this case mud— has come to be believed in by the news media and the partici- pants themselves as the emerg- ence of that 'new nation'.

Of course, it was nothing of the sort. There certainly was a sense of _People felt they were doing their freedom, thing in own openly deviating from the stan- dards of their society. Drugs were smoked openly, and people shared their food with rossro West 7600 Peers Walds 6:35 Crossroads. 8.00 Bold ones: 'Rebellion of i London on Living Weatherowing. and Above Wexceptol0.23-4.25.1.61-6.35 above Report Wescept: HTV (Wales) Colour channel 41. HTV (Cymru/Wales) black rus aleave excepted Dydd.

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6.10 Room Lon 6.35 eatross Ralph 3000 Crossroads. Hopkirk Randall 9.00 10.00 results Scotshots A kind 11.15 10.30 Pro fessional wrestling. of they might be the to stop tether, whole crowd Some and en reen inter esting thos perforangry rain, no rain: 'No they chanted, 'no there our and during those guitar on the stage three days, it smashing his alienation poured and poured frustration audience -threaten the estahlishment one Even the ers ahe arm, jot. the cociety in which sending in helicopters fun, they find but sym- The film extended doctors. had negative total interview with a young couple on us, shoute possiblities with us. not their way to the Festival.

shouted the announcer. it), ane! change,' renecung army's done a good 1oD. want mass decent human it leads to mass insanits just Approval are aspirations alone myself. to tender yourself potentess.

theory is and to And that Warner _And, even given that the film- Just hold up your hands in the per- nd showed us what they wantec neace chouter one as the seems clear that level on which the It will do you no good, either!

festival functioned. what after all, • ancomfortable It be are the me Not inct with a dicinalination entertainment in to become involved in the inevit- Not as the tri surroundings. ability of the class struggle, but Music is no also with a stica weanon. A sense thought revolution, community is Dolltical NO nO beautiful enign the establishment saw aim made hial mee saw ear.

everything wonder beings with their non tinal lolces. code. almost religion, which enobles life and helps others to A satirical song was sung about Vietnam war. H vervone hve." Elevated laughed and clapped. It was good That is why the establishmeof entertainment gives approvah. If feels a titse more festival Joan Bae ane Hill san r saw meant nothing secure to the audience But it is mistaken It conno song class which cannot announcer suggested thatin, the Whan it atontad to

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

INDUSTRIAL

the include creation of unneces- training At came time information course is recom- working and sary overtime schemes are being recom- mended for shon stewaros groun ourbut norms the show scone and mended for chemical in- Following eventual nego- range of productivity agree- dustry managements and ments'. report concludes that a con- workers preparing Step determines the tinuing forum can Cevel or manzement chan bon mezn achieving the for operate productivity and co-operation im- imnlomontotion of tha danl tho advises provement of productivity.

Measured-Day Work deals. week Training 'communica- Most of the Chemical and Allied tions. activity sampling and organized and ad Dandusta Inductan synthetic work-study sys- Board's latest minicterer hu the Cenaral this stage are all advocated at Workers' report and Municipal Union'. work-force attitude terms training'. There can be no nhiar. tion to education schemes At a time of closures and

FLEXIBILITY

providing proper training in mass sackings xtra skills and in operating industry. imnlementation of For the training required modern egunment. the renort "rainina. im - promote intercraft bility. plications of manpower pro- But schemes which, under of elimination ductivity agreement'-could pretence improving the Un - only mean more unemploy- worker's situation, nroductive Work lead to @enoranhira and eventually ment. sneed -11n mobility tha Roard agrico.

jobs, fewer cannot strai smal part of aye operators train each tolerated. small part n aspects of their jobs that even this is to scheme new recures

CONFIDENCE TRICK

other carried out them to know. onerativec on the frm and Under the Improvement of Perim not by the Training Board's tho amnhacic an schools. productivity methods appre Board this training ance'. the wants comes no more than a con-

PRODUCTIVITY

courses ndence trick to get workers act annet thair own report interests. This, it is said, may lead introduction of a produc- to changes in normal work Training in tivity agreement into sec- day hours and the extension and outlines training tinne for management ic tions of shift work. han them haan the incing tor each one going as long as possible.

Special training is recom- 'Step one - - diagnose the Only when training situation includes existing mender for nant mangoers hoarie and connois are rut finding out what new tech- organize discussion groups innovationo a means of 'obtaining the organizations and introduad what manning and government co-operation reductions make how representatives can it be insured much more to pay wages for acceptance and so on.

nresent This is expected to help that inh training is not used The taninina duice for "romanol auentually cutting 10he this section is a seminar for restrictions restrictions on work per work and increasing productivity management. of the remaining workers.

PAGE FOUR

General Motors

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esport or no modene the her tan very dada * us economy satisfied with the Wood- or che fit year of the nise contract. Sliding scale ce increases, with related vite : cents an hour. Support orkers CM wainst, Caron toll have and, jobs. Tuesday expire A warning

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Some hope - (

LATE NEWS

WORKERS PRESS

SWINDON, the railway town in rural Wilt- shire, is now on the brink of the biggest wages struggle of its history. Over 6,000 workers in seven Plessey plants have revolted against low pay - they want cash, they want it now and they want it without strings. To emphasize their determination, a productivity deal, constructed by carefully over the last l months, has been scrapped and a demand for an 80 per cent increase in the basic rate lodged.

The new militancy which swept through the four Plessey plants and spread, during the summel, to workers at the pany's subsidiary firm of warrarus, has Deen summed up by Les Warren, works convenor and chair- man of the Plessey trades Healine com- mittee.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

ne riessey company v said thirst be gan to sed all au He the not day bayed out ut a th the management to sell it to the firm's workers. seven factories kingenut it and decided ed After this valuable experi- We wane asic onto cause Sarty August and the mim Plessey claim is for £8 66 105, both acrosthe will be accepted. board. in the taison comin Not extravagant Dramatic deal introduced by tivity no one considers the claim, he believes, is just suct al deeded of Plesse estatee on the tr an Issue. rose t3 million: This dispute will probably •We had a one-day strike happened to • to The Worl st the committees constructed are semons tration kind Wednes worker ir aware workers won

CRISE NOW

'Efforts have been made in Worker Swindes, liaison we will get prope promises the Presen • are ugh. Sankey of the south prelim Brenes are Plessent Wondred of the and in the three Garrards fac Tabeur force is female of the Discontent Convenor Bill Baxter led to the claim. Women Bot loss. " mood as it wast at Plessey. Two panels etc. OR 'But they wa majority to any two days gave ree months •Wage in had es eflse. vole teal P01720-2089 where read nels were SW4. Bering big increases e to Workers Press for Meeting a Plesses are ost is peope i or you • The los it dece deal was Convenor Rene Hazel the leaders irst lew had on Real out an and threw out approached hey said modeal to form a liaison the sile woner brought in 'We deserve [nis Pa. in basic for a not baked yet". dated to May. and 26 ElO 125 9d for women this asked could have another you with deserve 'We hours' overtime the mone about sie belor Panels mats rife and she say: stoppages Have time offered Dutch Sod Arters Militant repre workers, think it's bound to lead • have a hard i weeks in to swe will fight it in the old sagreemen been pained 2000 d an enti them abasions wat there. p.m. and I went dividual, asd i imi what this man and they were leadership as the to ta lad from, Dorset, "Ihen a lot of the stewards Wednesday, September 16, 1970 Firemen

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instructinsto and unio applances with those holder refused

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to ride las odons and barrers wish Unied Sates segrel. We are treated beauti- ruling class 1 brigade's chief officer mutilated Levy ith the state and e en ions no the como eneio • face preved for a socialist Palestine.

financial support orker 'the goal of the strike move- em budget mentir be

NO SHOWDOWN

Merited Natins General) United the wAndraval ocons York

BITTER STRIKERS CLOSE

mon came into operation fast

MIDLANDS GAS PLANTS

back for a Middle-Eas serpenten Middle Sosialist States of the

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"A FAiR DAYS

MEETING

SC% RISE

AND SO DO

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TR SHARE

• members expressed Party adeedurprise at thes

• FOR MANUAL

struggle of the Jewish worhing and students. Tear the historical ed

GAS WORKEN

leir execution as fascist 'Gentlemen will ne munis 10" + as its Achilles heel Moscil Trials;

CLASS QUESTION

Middle East, General Connel that th NHIE aN davod strike of gas maintenance workers in the W Midlands is grow- e workir force of 4,000 are out now and only the Coleshill and wasawood neat depois are working. SPOKESMEN for the liberation movements in Portu- guese Africa have charged the Israeli government with la bourers Por men net supplying arms to racialist regimes in Africa.

Salman the seuses sains ncentive bonus were met. million Both 'no- 'orth of ar not simisty wo corree posed strings

ALL TRADES

a basic of E15 10 ince se condi- to Tradi har a coran

UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

onfighting re-exe orted a leste collectior overtime Faunai se The Sume o southern Africa. cipal Workers Union A most quartér of fighting Cinea Angola, release suerri armed with Israeli iberation fighters in Europear Cowley strike continues

WEATHER

from is Israeli arms have hands d wcapons ando ara central and tht side union British- Edinburgh a f2-a-week offer, but the mer hent a movement of modelver to the neproduo 28 Outpost late Normal. Max 180 Fridays will meet again This followed a deadlock discussion senior 4: Brind outpost of American GKN dispute hits Skefco : 17C 163

THE

disputeether a total of 20000 Skefco to be laid ora id bause orte disput 5,000 Sankey workers the plant.

SOCIALIST

ine de ar din tos a nostins Mo representing boith The Council - represenung

LABOUR

More GAS-type firms

LEAGUE

for London's airports? Trotsky ASKED IF the principles. This Sine Memorial Meeting aid Maseheldro em and mist

GLASGOW

GAS,

privately-owne varick ouren Hall (nr Merkland St underground) Miners Trotsky's 7.30 p.m. neir (obs and Admission 2s

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last words: nationalized corpora- Cion Trotskynglish de volutio Coming that lhe miner 'I am confident of closer Speakeationa secretary) a Peterda stones

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the victory of the 19691918 Masefield describec Sunday Fourth International та на волан the Toriesent Go forward'! Scotland: October 4 rise on sound public enterpris