Now only 5 percent of its 1,500 workers are still employed maintaining plant and machinery.

"He came in here and asked why we weren't doing anything," recalled Mr. Cervienka, head of a unit that maintains machinery.

His main job is to support production by, for example, maintaining plant, machinery and tools and undertaking minor jobs on the building fabric.

This information is vital in maintaining machinery in various trades worldwide.

Virtually no one, other than workers maintaining machinery, is working overtime.

By now the only pit left working was Llwynypia Colliery where strike breakers were maintaining the pumps and other machinery.

They could grow plants, sink foundations, repair leaking pipes, maintain machinery, weave clothing, cook meals.

In the factories of Congo, the Chinese work 12 hours a day, six days a week, maintaining machinery on Sundays.

For example, all modern nations maintain elaborate machinery for measuring economic performance.

Ironically, the cost of maintaining the manpower and machinery necessary for this performance killed the Evening News.