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Turning to the H.P,a., which would han@le the operation, maintenonce, @ad capital expansion programme of the industry, it wes felt "that the demand for 50% workers' representation on Lts Soards was also likely to prove unsatisfactory and danrerous, \lorkers would be involved injend held responsibie for decisions about the rationalisation of the industry, whilst they were not in a position of real authority. Yet, if the self-management powers on the labour side were to mean anything, workers should clearly have some form of power over the decisions of the Ii.P.A. The solution proposed - that the \icrkers' Councils should have’ full powers of supervision of the proceedings, accounts, and § decisions of the N.P.A. (at all three levels) with powers of publicity and appeal, (and of course the unimpaired right to strike in the last resort) - is designed to avoid the snares of co-determine tion, and of saddling workers with the impossibie task of running 3 completely: sotialised industry by themselves,
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& ses ; continued/ whilst the surrounding economy remains larrely in privete agi but the exploit tation of ‘the natioiialised° dock industry -privete interests. would be checked ond challenged by iworkers* subervigion. | Wider cvestions: of the transnort industry were “1396 -raised > the spoaps TAG hub sround Which“the co- ~ordination of road, ctl end séa transsert revolves, | ¥g the Gdckside. Dockers poe Le Oe better “position vhen mé@st‘cve observe the appatlion -w aste and inefficiencies whic! follow frou “the Bepareyicy Or aie differdnd “sééters of trans port frou “each -obher, The: eérns of wider claim for-worers * control, DrEnerin« ontiner VOrZers | in rciweys /ov0ad transpdért, end Cocks Ss, were present in this discussion. The difficult problem. of interounion relations was ..of course. discussed. ‘Tt was felt thet the proposing of blue=print solutions, - suc as a loose confedération of unions catering for. dock workers ) = wails premature, ‘and ‘that doclers in different unions would in fact ¢éme“€loser tecether, and eventually force the cbancomment of mutual prejudices and ‘suspicions, by first working . Oud, end then eg oa TOT. + Programme: a Solution to the Docs Irdblem, of the Kind whieh we ‘heve descris ed henge. . '
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