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The Tito clique itself admits that in these enterprises thereis a wide gap between managers and workers not only in wagesbut also in bonuses. In some enterprises, the bonuses of themanagers and higher staff are forty times those of the workers.“In certain enterprises, the total amount of the bonus whicha group of leaders received is equal to the wage fund of theentire collective.” 1Moreover, the managers of the enterprises use their privilegesto make a lot of money by various subterfuges. Bribery,embezzlement and theft are still bigger sources of income forthe managers.The broad masses of the workers live in poverty. Thereis no guarantee of employment. Large numbers of workerslose their jobs with the closing down of enterprises. Accordingto official statistics, in February 1963 the number of the unemployedreached 339,000, or about 10 per cent of the numberof the employed. In addition, every year many workers goabroad seeking work.Politika admitted on September 25, 1961 that “there existsa great gap between some workers and office employees; theformer look upon the latter as ‘bureaucrats’ who ‘swallow up’their wages”.These facts show that in the Yugoslav enterprises under“workers’ self-government”, a new social group has come intobeing consisting of the few who appropriate the fruits oflabour of the many. It is an important component of the newbureaucrat-comprador bourgeoisie in Yugoslavia.By promoting “workers’ self-government”, the Tito cliquehas completely pushed the enterprises originally owned bythe whole people off the path of socialist economy.The main manifestations of this are the following:First, the abandonment of unified economic planning by thestate.1Letter of the Central Committee of the L.C.Y. to Its Organizationsand Leaderships at All Levels, February 17, 1958.158