SOUTH NOTTINGHAM YOUNG SOCIALISTS WANT \JORKERS' CONTROL OF PROFITS
The South Nottm. Y.S. passed the following resolution on June 15th and it was sent to Mr, Wilson and the South Nottm. CLP:
‘Thilst supporting the view that it is impossible for the trade union movement to participate in an incomes policy at national level unless firm and effective measures are taken to control profits and other forms of rentier income, as well as wages, this branch declares that no effective control of profits is possible unless steps are taken to discover, accurately, their real extent and amount. Accordingly this branch, concerned at the numerous ways in which employers are able to mask their returns, in dubious allowances for depreciation, etc., requires as 2 condition of participetion in an incomes policy that the employers account books be opened, as a matter of right, to their employees snd their representatives, in order that an accurate picture of actual profit levels may be obtained, SENIOR PILOT WANTS STAFF PARTICIPATION ON STATE AIRLINE BOARDS
Tom Nicholls reports: Captain Fry, who was for many years BOAC's senior pilot, writing in Flight International of 4th June, is critical of the old BOAC set up for its lack of adequate consultation with the staff, In discussing the structure of the Board, he writes: "But I do believe that one of the weaknesses of the BOAC of the immedinte past was the fact that the Boxnrd contained civil servants, trade union officials, a building executive and some noble lords, but not one single person with a genuine up to date experience as an air-line pilot." On day to day organisation he says: "It has also been unfortunate that, on the commercial side, there has been precious little consultation with those in day to day touch with the ‘customers,"
Summing up on staff morale, he says: "Then he (Sir Giles Guthrie) must try to project himself and his team to all ranks of the staff. In partice ular he would be wise to accept the advice of Eric Lubbock, M.P., that the pilots should be allowed to elect one of their number to the Board. He might also consider that same idea for the engineering staff, who are at the moment not too pleased with the manazement. In any case technical personnel must not continue to be excluded from top management,"