WORKERS OCCUPY BIG TYRE PLANT AND OPERATE IT THEMSELVES
Details have tardily arrived concerning a relatively isolated Revolucionario, Uruguayan Section of the Fourth Interbut highly significant action of the workers in Uruguay. The
"gum-miners" of the big FUNSA tyre-plant at Montevideo had gone on strike. Management's attitude in negotiations angered them so that they decided not only to occupy the factory but to run it themselves. In face of dire predictions that without the supervision of the bosses everything would come almost immediately to a standstill, if not to a catastrophe, they demonstrated that they were perfectly well able themselves to manage a plant in which many processses are of notorious complexity. The factory ran smoothly, and productivity was high. So was morale, and so were the workers' spirits. Word of their action spread through the city: other workers came to cheer them ; the university students immediately offered an alliance. The bosses were staggered : after 48 hours they stopped talking tough and signed an agreement on the workers' terms. Among its most important provisions were: the recognition of the factory council with certain rights of control, and the acceptance of a guaranteed monthly wage plus the sliding scale of wages based on the cost of living-for the first time in Uruguay.
The Uruguyan workers were jubilant, and they learned "fast from this experience. In succeeding strikes in OSE, Radel, Conatel, Spiller, Samic, and TEM, the workers adopted the tactic of full occupation.
Frente Obrero, the fortnightly organ of the Partido Obrero national, stressed for the country's workers two of the main lessons of the experience: that it put a stop to the eternal nonsense about the incapacity of the workers to run industry themselves without the need of straw bosses, company police, and bourgeois administration; and that it struck a decisive blow at the idea of the "sacredness" of private property and the "sacredness" of business secrecy. The paper wisely cautioned that an experience so isolated is by its nature limited and cannot be long maintained ; but what it urgently poses is the necessity of the statification of all industry and general planning of production. And—-a point of particular timeliness with the growth of unemployment-Frente Obrero called on the workers, after this convincing experience, to refuse to accept any future closing down of plants simply because their bosses cannot make sufficient profit out of them, throwing their workers out of work and into misery, but instead to demand immediate nationalization of such plants and their functioning under workers' control—control of production, accounting, and distribution.
Sparking the operation at FUNS A were several members of the Partido Obrero Revolucionario. And their policy and activity were such that a group of other FUNSA workers, headed by one of the principal strike leaders, José Manganelli, joined the party as a result.
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