YUGOSLAVS DISCUSS NEW CONSTITUTION
On September 21, 1962, the federal parliament of Yugoslavia adopted the preliminary draft of the new Constitution. ~In the subsequent public discussion on the draft, many indications have shown how much public opinion favors increased rights for the workers councils. :
In the draft Constitution, factory managers are to be appointed. or reappointed through "public competition" and have to be approved by the so-called "communes" (the lowest administrative bodies, which. are controlled by the Communist party). A worker of Novi Sad wrote to Borba, central newspaper of the CP, saying he could not. understand why a workers council shouldn't decide for itself on the appointment or dismissal of a factory director under its jurisdiction, without approval from the outside.
This minority view, strongly favoring proletarian democracy, was rejected in the preliminary draft of the federal Constitution. It has, however, been incorporated in the preliminary draft of the | Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the six constituents of the Yugoslav Federation.
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In this draft Conatitution, the commune has the right, oe with the workers council, to decide on the conditions and qualifications required before: an "application for the job of: menaEes: can be taken into consideration.
The manager is appointed, however, by the workers eouncil ibhelt without any putatde interference.
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