'NATONALISED dustry is bad for workers, private industry is good. That's the message Tories are hammering out today - and every nationalised industry is threatened.
*The Ferranti group and the Fairey engineering firm, . recced том оакоси the National Board, are now back in the black:
year, Fairey f5.2m.
Tories have sold them private investors prices *British Rail has been forced to sell oll some of its notels and cross-Channel ferries.
*Management at the British Steel Corporation is considering hiving Rotherham/Sheffield complex to ment's borrowing demands.
"Sections of the health service are to be sold to private firms.
*The Post Office's monopoly orustat sorviceis to oc abulsile ed to allow the private sector to move in on the profitable operaLOUS *Demands are growing, cording to the bosses the gas monopoly'.
The Tories have two things in mind. First, to give their friends in the City some unearned prolucrative campaign tep campaign . LIaL Haloraised requirement bad because they are nationalisLed. 'Bear in mind what you know advise the Tories.
LudL rampant in these nationalised industries: their history speed-up But the big lie is that these pro. paper, The blems come from the fact that uncy are nationalisca.
The truth is that dustries into an increase Newcastle, and because they are subordinate to the profit system. tney were nanonansca as a step 1n up their political rationalisation workers task for the management of bankrupt firms out of the red.
It was the same story with the mines and rall. All Enese basic in dustries had Well, it's true because protits weren't enough to convince capitalists to invest their ill-gotten gains in them. The state of had to bail these industries out. and closures There might be waste and inefficiency in the nationalised secparable to private industry. Betpublic in- ween 1958 and 1968, for instance, difficulties outout per person-rose by on In most cases plans. clectricity by 7.5 pe has favourable.
run down Europe.
of gas for typical is the four per cent in British manufac- Find turing as a whole; in the nation payments.
40 IC cent, in the mines by 6 per cent, in it, and in DIUlIt, DRONSTONS been even more Today production per person in BSC is the highest in overboard capitalism.
These rates have been achieved despite the fact that nationalised industries have always subsidised the private sector. ICI, for example, has a contract for gas by economy. which it will receive £110m worth mere-f20m. More ment's demand that the nation1o delena the nationalised sector we have to reject the logic socialists challenge. inner workers control. Above all this means using the nationalised sector to plan speed, woe economy the anarchy of To do this we need to extend nationalisations, taking over the top 80 firms that dominate our Then, by taking over cooks ane mace louses it would be possible to plan in- industries vestment according to need and famous concerned with will • Vickers' more the closure of whole steel works costing tens of millions of pounds would be ended. For such waste taking decisions based on the anarchy of the pronts system as such. in unemployement, lay and overcapacity are typica or tre wide есоноу This Is what we have to attack: the subordination of the nationalised 104( Such a proposal for workers' control and workers' plans has in common with Tony for His proposals, which leave the core sections of "forget' one fact: profits are the be all and end all of capitalism.
Workers' control is a total counterposes the plan to capitalist anarchy; and at lactory level it puts in the hands of workers the decisions over line hiring and firing, number of hours worked. It is a policy that ensures that workers not profits benefit from advances in new technology tion. It means sharing the work «lu aulola with no loss of pay.
This is the framework within which defence of the nationalised against the ,Tories shoule benrance lis a keytasi for every militant