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    "ocrText": "SECHN\n-2- #3798, September 22, 5 p.m., from London\n4. Real difficulties of general council and trade\nunion movement generally is not that it is not kept\ninformed but that it is always 12 to 18 months late\nin facing economic facts of life even when kept\nAnformed. Great weakness of British union leaders\nis that they do not know how to formulate positive\nprogram on behalf their members in face of Britain's\ndifficult economic position. During past two years\nas British economy has become tighter and tighter,\nunion leaders have been able offer their members\nfewer and fewer hopes for improvement. As result\nmembers are rebelling, and leaders are caught between\nanvil of their members and hammer of government.\n5. Even at this late date many union leaders still\ndo not advocate or know how to devise union - -manage-\nment cooperation arrangements to increase production\nand productivity and bring down costs without cutting\nwages. But this would involve such measures as work-\ning longer hours and overtime, eliminating unnecessary\nlabor, changing jobs, rationalizing wage systems,\nremoving restrictive practices, refusing to support\nindividual workers who shirk on job, dealing with\nabsenteeism, etc. While some progress has been made\nin these directions over past few years, and in\ncomparison with attitude of trade unions in 1938 a\nremarkable change in outlook headquarters occurred,\nthere is still vast room for improvement. Hesitation\nof trade unions to move in this direction, their lack\nof imagination, their essential conservativism, their\nrefusal to examine their own practices and customs,\ntheir almost psychopathic fear of unemployment, etc.,\netc., are part of the reason for British trade union\nas well as Labor government difficulties, and will\nincreasingly aggravate their mutual relations.\n6. We do not attach any importance to report of\nsplit between government and TUC, but in very real\nsense labor movement\nTRENAR\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. o. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or 75 (E)\nARCHIVES AMD NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE^ and\nDept. of Staté letter, 3-18-23\nis\nBy NLT- HC NARS Date 9-10-76"
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