Are unified larger group. They e no interests in maintaining if and old-fashioned factories xistence long after they have red their purpose on the capit1 market, let alone are capable saying any role in a planned alist economy of the future. | Huckfield, Labour MP for Nunon, who quite blatantly told rkers that they would have to pt the methods of their bosses.
Even if unity of the workers won in the industry around demand tor nationalisation, workers should insist that any ructuring of the factories in group should not jcopardise Demands for work-sharing a shorter working week, as I as constant access by the rkers to all plans for reorganismm, should he put to the fore. : experience of the Meriden ken in their campaign for a op could be invaluable in ensag that any nationalisation eme includes real elements of rkers control in the interests of workers, not the capitalist rket.
Access to discussian and infor ion at top management level ald give workers important weapons. The secrecy of business affairs is something all employers use against workers. This is obvious in strike situations where bosses use veiled threats of redundancy and collapse to beat workers down and back to work.
INVESTMENT But even outside these situations, there is a vast area of decision making affecting their future which workers could exploit to prepare a successful response to all attacks from the employers. Such decisions are those on investment, on changes in technology, location of factories, take-overs and manpower planning. The fight for all information on matters affecting workers and for the right to veto unacceptable management decisions is at the centre Whether workers fight against the redundancies arising from the operation of the capitalist market hy creating co-ops financed by the Government, or by control over the decisions of state bureaucrats in nationalised industries, workers democracy involving report-backs to the shop floor, mass meetings with instant right of re-call and veto of management decisions by mass mectings of workers — is vital. RALLYING POINT Even more important, however, is the policy which the workers and their representatives pursue. Are they fighting simply to guarantee jobs in this or that individual concern, as at Meriden (in which case the law of the market will almost inevitubly overtake them so long as capitalism survives) or do they use their struggle, as did the Lip workers, as a rallying point for a fight by the workers" movement as a whole to impose the uny real long term solution: the planning of the whole economy under the direction of the working class? ent and "moral example' of the capitalists to the idea.