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Embankment (Cleopatra's Needle), WSL PUBLIC MEETING-Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, 4 pm, after the march.

of the History of the Fourth International plus 12p p&p from WSL, 31, Dartmouth The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation fighting to construct a principled revolutionary leadership in the working class in Britain and internationally, and for the reconstruction of the Trotskyist Fourth International on the basis of the Transitional Programme.

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NW5 1HR For some time now British employers, through the Lib-Lab government and the right wing in the trade unions, have been pressing for workers to accept incentive schemes.

Yet these same bureaucrats have at the same time felt obliged to bemoan the high level of unemployment -even while pressing schemes that add to it.

One of these schemes • is that advocated by British Leyland management. Two weeks ago it was thrown out by a 2-1 majority in a ballot of BLMC workers.

But since the union national negotiating committee has refused to oppose the scheme on principle, and Leyland will certainly come back with it in a slightly rearranged form, it is worth examining the technique through which it aims at attacking shop floor organisation, imposing speed-up and cutting jobs.

"Trial period"

The 'scheme proposed "trial period" of six months. No doubt this would operate the same as the one year "trial period" for the worker participation scheme-where most workers never had the chance of a second vote.

During the initial trial period the Leyland prudently proposed to leave out a clause which stipulates that workers would have to increase production by 1½% every three months in order to achieve the same bonus as in the previous quarter:

There is little doubt that Leyland intend to use this clause for escalating speed-up

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