internal finishing work occurs at these more or less
predictable times;
(d) and the use of manpower for repair, maintenance
and yard work during these periods;
(xi) cyclical unemployment:
dependent largely on the investment cycle; the remedy lay
in a central planning mechanism with planned investment
levels and sufficient self-reliance to substantially insulate
these plans from much exogenous disturbance;

In view of the problems the correct response to the demands
made by the workers of MECCO would be to recognise that it is
the joint task of the Party, the Government and the (manual and
managerial) workers of the industry to press for these remedies to
be implemented and constantly improved. Those issues which
concern the workers within the industry must be tackled there. All
workers should be made fully aware of the problems facing the in-
dustry, the plans for their solution and the obstacles confronting
them. Books should be opened, first of all to the workers. Work
team ‘discussion groups’ should deal with their own problems and
exchanges between teams should be encouraged. These ‘teams’
should put all queries to managerial workers, while managerial
workers particularly concerned with the work of certain teams
should be members of these teams. Targets should be set and
agreed upon, performance discussed and suggestions made. This
would allow internal obstacles to be surmounted; external ob-
stacles to be identified and attacked.

It is clear that the problems raised by this dispute cannot be
solved within the industry alone. Those problems which cannot be
solved by the industry itself, but which require the co-operation
and efficient performance of other agencies, must be identified and
all available channels and levers should be used by all interested
parties — management, workers, NUTA, TANU — to demand
and to ensure the efficient performance of these outside agencies.

Political. social and economic pressure must be used at all levels
to ensure efficient operation. Moral and material incentives must
be instituted to reward performance within the industry but also to
those in related ‘outside’ institutions. Officials from these related
outside institutions must come to discuss their operations and
problems with the workers of the industry, they must be senior
officials and they must not come as visiting dignitaries, but as

125