PRESIDENTIAL CIRCULAR NO. 1 OF 1970: THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKERS’ COUNCILS,
EXECUTIVE BOARDS AND BOARDS OF
DIRECTORS

1. When opening the Friendship Textile Mill on Saturday, July
6th, I said: We ask the people to work hard, yet in modern fac-
tories each man and woman is doing only a very small part of the
whole process of production. How can he really go on year in and
year out taking a pride in that one job? The imaginative people
can do it, but for the majority it is very hard to relate one simple
task to the total output of the factory. Often the worker does not Irt'f\' t
even know where his task fits into the total scheme of things; he | }
does not know what the factory as a whole is aiming at, and he \
does not know what progress they are making towards their com-

~ bined aims. It is not sensible to expect people to be enthusiastic )
about their jobs under these circumstances. Let us, therefore, have
targets for each factory worked out on the basis of what can be |
sold — and where. Let these targets be known to each worker, let
them be placarded in big letters on the walls. And don't stop there;
let each separate work-shop, or process, or group of work people
also have its target per year, per month, per day. And then,
having got the target clear, let it be equally clear what was ac-
tually achieved in the past year, month or day. I believe that when
people have a clear target in front of them and when they can see
how far they have exceeded or how far they fall short of it, they
will respond to this challenge as they have responded to so many
challenges in our recent history. They will want to beat the target,
they will take pride in their factory exceeding its target with good

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