In an interniew published on 4 June. Portugal's Minister of Labour, 'Commanist" Pacheco Goncalves, made some very telling statements.
When asked about the 'points of tension' between his ministry and the Ministry of Economic Coordination, Goncalves answered:
*It would not he correct to speak of points of tension among the ministries. There does exist a secious contradiction betapon the level of the just demands of the workors and the depros to which it it possible to satisty them, To overcome this contradiction a close collaboration belwoen the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of T'conomic Coordination is necessary: This collaboration must be Lied Do a clour unery or objectives among the ministries and to a strong popular support. I would say that if " tonsions" exist, they are the road along which a common effort at national recovary must pass.
TO IS LADS MINISCE OF ERS PROMOTIS with whom a close collaboration' is necessary within a 'clear unity of objectives and with whom a common effort at national recovery" is to be made? *who has successively been underdirector, He is Dr Vasco Vieira de Almesia. general director, and administrator of the Portuguese Bank of the Atlantic, administrator of the Portuguese Petroleum Refining Corporation, Ine., vice president of the Chamber of Commerce: head of commercial missions to Japan and Brazil: author of sarous articies published in the Financial Timer the American Banker, eto.: administrator of the National Association of Petroleum: vice-president of the administrative council of the Franco-Portuguese Overseas Bank: administrator of the Lisbon Bank, Ine.; and president of the Portuguese Real do so badly during the previous regime. But now he is serving his class hetter from the Ministry of Economic Coordina 42UT Goncalves, who was a bank employee and umon water danny the presus To the question of whether the new Iahour law would prohibit firings without justifiable cause, he answered:
" would not be abie to gie any calegorical guarantees on that. To prohibit Firings with out justifiable cause is o beautiful aspiration of the workers. But we ought to distinguish punitive firings from simple unjustified firines. Any law that is not adapted to Lie scil realities nears Tos the Bak a bat bane carr out.