of a wage policy (introduction); wages policy; permanent labour
tribunal and its economic functions; responsibilities of industry,
government and NUTA leaders and workers in implementing the
wages policy; labour productivity and safety; the origin of dif-
ferences in manual work; methods of increasing productivity; rules
in organisation of work; quality supervision; suggestion schemes.

(e) Industrial Relations — 10 hours: Employment policies and
procedures; difference between a capitalist manager and a socialist
one; duties of a manager; importance of good industrial relations;
instruments of industrial relations; essential things in industrial
relations.

() Work Safety — 10 hours: (no details).

Just as the students for this course seem to have been selected
not because of their respective qualities to do mobilisation work
but simply because they happened to come from the required
ministries and institutions, so also the course itself was a con-
tribution of all that the particular institutions could offer in the
form of teaching material. Thus you had the N.I.P., NUTA,
Labour Division, etc. each trying to justify its existence and modus
operandi — even if what is preached may not be very well in ac-
cord with the underlying ideas of the councils. I am referring par-
ticularly to what must have gone under the heading ‘NUTA’,
‘Wages and Productivity Policies’, and particularly ‘Industrial
Relations’. It would seem as if some of the items listed need to be
questioned critically in a socialist framework; to give an example,
‘suggestion boxes’, and the whole notion of industrial relations (as
conceived in this country and capitalist countries generally).

The programme seems to have concentrated on explaining the
work of institutions. Thus lacking are such fundamental issues as
planning, investments, etc. Needless to say, the problems of
bureaucracy do not fall within the realm of this scheme.

Eventually 42 of the 55 trainees were selected to proceed and
carry out the educational campaign in the industries. For this pur-
pose, the cadres were divided into six groups of seven, so that
each cadre specialised on only one of the six topics on which the
workers were to be instructed:

(a) The Arusha Declaration

(b) The Presidential Circular

(c) Wages and Productivity Policy

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