considered too ‘technical’ for the workers—yet, as I shall illustrate
presently, even the short experience of the UFI has proved that
the workers are capable of understanding all matters involving
production—a process they themselves carry out any way.

Let us now turn to the actual council. Its composition is as
directed in Presidential Circular save for two more additions: an
appointee of TANU Headquarters and the Chinese Team Leader.
Thus the total membership is as follows:

(a) TANU Branch Chairman (1)
(b) The General Manager (same as (a)
(¢) All Departmental Heads (11)
(d) Members of the Workers’ Committee (5)
(e) Workers' Representatives (6)
(f) Co-opted Members (N.D.C. Staff) 2)
(g) NUTA Representative (1)
(h) TANU Headquarters Representative (1)
(i) Chinese Team Leader (1)
(28)

In practice, however, the total composition comes only to 25
members of the council because of overlapping between category
(c) on the one hand and (d) and (e) on the other. Because of the
clause requiring that the respresentatives in category (e) be chosen
from each section, their character is more representative of the
workers than the committees we have been looking at so far. The
six representatives are a Senior Accounts Clerk, a Mason and four
Machine Operators. But they still remain too small a minority
against the 19 others.

Until June 1971, the council had met twice and, in the two
meetings which lasted till night, a very wide range of topics was
exhaustively discussed. The minutes of the two meetings run to
over 30 pages. Here is a run-down of the headings of topics
discussed.

 

 

 

1. Chairman’s Report

2. Marketing

3. Sales and prices (recommended price and methods of sale)
4. Capacity of factory

 

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