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Yugoslavias new constitution

The Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 8, 23 February 1963 · p. 9 of the scan · 215 words

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1466 On September 2lst 1962, the federal parliament of Yugoslavia adop~ tad the preliminary draft of the new Constitution, In tha subsequent public discussion on the draft, many indications have shown how much public opinion favours increased rights for the workers' councils, In the draft constitu ion, factory managers are to ba apmintod or re-appointed through “public oom petition" and have to be approved by the so-called “commnes" (the lowest ad—ministrative bodies, which are controlled by the C.P.) A worker of Novi Sad wrote to Borba, central nowspaper of the C.P., saying he could not understand why a workor’ council could not decide for itself on the appointment or dis- Missal of a factory director under its jurisdiction, without approval from

The minority view, strongly favouring proletarian demogracy, was redected in the preliminary draft of the federal constitution. Jt has, however, been incorporated in the preliminary draft of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the six consiituents of the Yugoslav Federation. In this draft constitution, the commune has the right, together with the workers council to decide in tho coniitions and qualifications required before an application for the job of manager can_be taken into consider— ation, The manager is appointed however, by the workers' council itselt, without anyoutside interference.

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