Yugoslav Workers Refuse To Take Over Factory Management

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 November 1950, Page 6

Yugoslav Workers Refuse To Take Over Factory Management

BELGRADE. —Yugoslav workers have refused to take over the management of the “Mladi Borac” factory because it has previously been so badly run, according to “Omladina,” organ of the Communist-led people’s youth of Yugoslavia. A management committee comprising two thirds workers and one third management had been elected as prescribed under Marshal Tito’s new Law on Worker’s Control in industry, but the committee refused to carry on its duties because: The paper described the case as unique in Yugoslavia’s nationalised industry. It cmplained of the following failings: Some workers had to sleep in the workshops; although the factory had its own farm, not a single worker received a single vegetable from it during the whole of the summer. Owing to the management’s financial irregularities, workers went without pay from September 1 to October 10. “It is not surprising that some workers remove tools from the factory,” “Omladina” said. Planned production was poor and 440,000 parts had to be thrown away because of defects. Workers drunk at their machines was a common sight.— Reuter.