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Does USSR have
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the idea that with her looks
she should be a ballet star, so
she was sent to the above-men-~
tioned Orenburg theatre, even
though she hadn’t ever gone to
ballet school, or passed a test.

It soon became Clear that she
had no talent at all and she was
dropped . . . But the fake ‘‘bal-
lerina’’ now had a boy-friend,
an equally fake ‘opera singer.”’

What do these sordid biogra-
phies demonstrate? They show
that in both cases there were
‘ood’? people who helped to
spoil them, to put into their
heads the idea that they were
“‘big time stuff’? and could start
at the top without having to work.

Other people, also probably
*‘eood,”’ watched the degenera-
tion of these spoiled egotistical
young persons and either laughed
or shrugged it off.

Thus criminals were made.

Of course, these are rare
cases in the USSR. The num-
ber of delinquent youths is in-
finitesimal. The western press
and radio hounds are still play-
ing up the “‘stilyagi’’ (teddy boys)
that used to hang around hotels
where foreigners stay several
years ago (I haven’t noticed any
for a long time already).

But what are they so happy
about? After all, as they them-
selves admit, these were a very
number of

small individuals,

spoiled brats, who were aping
the ‘western way of life.’’

* * *.

The tightening of both public
and state control, the opening
of youth cafes (and now youth
clubrooms with facilities for
every kind of recreation), the
compulsory two-year period of
productive labor between high
school and university or other
higher educational institution,
the communist brigade system
where a person is helped in
every way and not left to stew
in his own juice, and finally, the
provision by law, where all ef-
forts have failed, to send a per-
son who refuses to work out of
the city and compel him to take.
part in productive labor, are all
helping to overcome the prob-
lem,

Yes, there are instances of
crime and juvenile delinquency
in the USSR — as yet. They

are remnants of the capitalist
past, And sometimes they are
weeds that have grown up from
seeds planted from abroad,

And they are continually be-

ing weeded out.
—John Weir

How one union has tackled |
the problem of automation

“Men and Machines”. Photc story
by Otto Hagel. Text by Louis Gold-
blatt. Price. $1.95.

ACK in the 1930’s a talented
Bincsercne named Otto Hagel
did a picture book about the strug-
gles of maritime workers en-
titled Men and Ships.

That book, long out of print,
is now something of acollector’s

item.

Now Hagel has returned to the
scene of that earlier book and
done what is, in effect, a sequel.
Men and Machines is subtitled,
A: Story About Longshoring on
the West Coast Waterfront.

It’s the story of the mechan-
ization and modernization agree-
ment between the International
Longshoremen’s & Warehouse-
men’s Union andthe Pacific Mar-
itime Assn. now in operation in
the ports of California, Oregon,
Washington (and Canada).

Hagel exposed more than 4,-
000 negatives up and down the
coast to get the pictures that
are in the book.

The text was written by Louis
Goldblatt, secretary-tresurer of
the ILWU. The introduction was
written jointly by J. Paul St.
Sure of PMA and ILWU Presi-
dent Harry Bridges. They also
have closing remarks.

The book is designed to an-
swer hundreds of inquiries re-
ceived by both the employing
association and the union re-
garding the 55 year, $29 mil-
lion fund agreement that went
into. effect Jan. 1, 1961, and is
to expire June 30, 1966.

* * *

The agreement, first of its
kind, has been hailed as the
most notable step yet taken by
a union and management in the
nation to tackle the problem of
automation.

The pact provides for free in-
troduction of the machine and

elimination of obsolete work’

practices.

In return the work force is
guaranteed against layoff, and
any shrinkage must come from
the top (older workers) through
voluntary or mandatory early re-
tirements—to be compensated for
out of the fund.

* * *

The 124 pages of photos and

32 pages of text provide an im-

portant and graphic explanation

of just exactly what the agree-
ment is all about.

Despite their pride in the
agreement, neither PMA nor
the ILWU claim it represents
a total solution to the problem.

St. Sure says it does not ‘*solve

Bridges says, ‘*This limited
joint effort has no such intent
mor any such result claimed.’’

Neither union nor management,
he says, has the answer to such
basic questions as, ‘‘Where are
the young people out of high
school and college going to find
jobs? What about jobs for the
millions of presently un-
employed?’

The book notes that nearly
2,000 men were added to the
West Coast longshore work
force this year. They were se-
lected from more than 20,000
applicants.

Ten men for every job opening!

Hagel’s dramatic skill with
a camera is the book’s best
feature. The photos, which show
old methods and new, are ar-
ranged in splendid sequence.

They also show the democracy
within the union that enabled
it to reach an agreement—al-
though debate in the ranks over
its merits continues.

Goldblatt’s step-by-step story

of how the agreement was
reached is not particularly
sparkling, although of obvious

value for the record.

Hagel’s pictures almost tell
the whole story by themselves.
The text becomes virtually an
appendix.

Some of the captions are so
elementary in tone as to verge
on being an insult to an adult
reader. They read like a first
grade primer.

the overall problems of so-call- £4

ed automation and industrial un-
employment.’’

~ Science visit
he visit of a British
Labor Party delegation
of five scientists to the So-
viet Union has been describ-
ed as ‘fextremely reward-
ing’’ by Lord Bowden, one
of the delegation.

The scientists have been
visiting various plants and

_works all over the U.S.S.R.
and stated they -have pick-
ed up ‘fmany details which
would be extremely useful
should a Labor government
be elected’’ in Britain.

The delegation’s visit had
resulted from a personal in-
vitation extended last year to
Harold Wilson, Labor Party
leader,

An ironic footnote to this book
is the history of its own pub-
lication. It was almost a victim

of its own subject matter —
the development of new tech-.

niques in industry.

The book was printed by the
Phillips & Van Orden Company
in San Francisco, a fact that—
unfortunately — is recorded on
the book’s flyleaf. Considering
the current situation this name
might have been omitted.

Phillips & Van Orden is one
of the commercial printing
firms in San Francisco current-
ly being struck by the Intl.
Typographical Union.

In fact, special dispensation
was required from the ITU in
order to get the book out of the

plant.

This situation is made mess-
ier by the fact Phillips & Van
Orden is one of the struck plants
currently employing professional
strikebreakers.

One of the issues in the strike
concerns union jurisdiction over
new techniques being introduced
into the printing industry.

-The book, which was partial-
ly completed when the strike
was called, carries the ‘‘bug’’
of the Allied Printing Trades
Council, but only because the
ITU was notably charitable in
this case to the cause of an-
other union.

It is a further irony that the
printing job is not particularly
good. The quality of picture re-
production leaves quite a bit
to be desired.

—S.M. (People’s World)

April 3, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 55
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