Kawawa, when opening the course for instructors in Workers’
Education in Dar es Salaam in July this year. The Vice-President’s
speech exposes capitalist attitudes of master and servant relation-
ship and advocates a new socialist attitude of workers and leaders
relationship in our industrial relations system.

I would say in brief that the decision to widen workers’ par-
ticipation in management is evidence of recognition of the fact
that after nationalisation of economic assets there is need to ensure
that their structure and management reflect socialist values. The
act of nationalisation creates opportunity for introduction of such
values. It does not automatically cause them. Introduction of
socialist values in the work and life of parastatal institutions con-
stitutes a separate programme.

Presidential Directive No. 1 of 1970 which decrees a system of

workers' participation in industrial management iS an important |
follow-up action to the nationalisations that have occured since |
the adoption of Arusha Declaration in 1967. Directly or indirectly z

it attempts to ensure prevalence of basic socialist values of
democracy, of human dignity and human equality and of control

of the major means of production by the peasants and workers in-_

cluding those of the enterprises concerned.

In my view the first national priority must be to ensure that all
the people and institutions concerned develop a proper com-
prehension, as objectively as possible, of conditioning factors and
circumstances prevailing in Tanzania. Those who must develop
this comprehension include managers or industrial leaders, the
workers in general, leaders of TANU, NUTA, and the Govern-
ment, especially Government Officers in our Labour department.
Nevertheless, of greatest and very immediate importance is the
understanding of such objective factors by the individuals upon
whose shoulders the people of Tanzania have placed managerial
responsibilities. The reasons for this are obvious but I hope will
emerge clearly as our discussion progresses.

These objective factors are of two kinds. On one side there are
the political factors and on the other there are what 1 may call
human factors. These relevant objective factors and circumstances
in Tanzania have to be taken into account in order to ensure suc-
cess of workers’ participation. If they are ignored they will have
negative consequences.

The political reality consists in our national commitment to

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