For years, trade show exhibitors have complained about inflated labor costs, rules that require the hiring of unneeded workers, thefts, inadequate security and poor maintenance.

What most farms have not done is reorganize by laying off unneeded workers, concentrating on crops that are most profitable or introducing modern business techniques.

The second group of statutes are railway labor laws, which put so much power in the unions that they force the employment of large numbers of unneeded workers.

That means scrapping most price controls, slashing subsidies for goods and services, permitting companies to lay off unneeded workers and allowing inefficient enterprises to go bankrupt.

Shortly after first developing, one oil company evacuated its oil rigs off of Texas and Louisiana by helicopter, with several other companies beginning to evacuate unneeded workers.

Since the layoffs at Ilyichevsk, employers have been given somewhat greater freedom, under new economic laws, to lay off unneeded workers.

As Japan's economy has slumped in the last few months, various industries have successfully appealed for Government subsidies to help them retrain or at least keep paying unneeded workers.

Daewoo went ahead with the dismissals after rejecting a union proposal that unneeded workers be given four months of paid leave or be allowed to work part time.

It is now very difficult for large companies to lay off unneeded workers.

The new plan permits unneeded or lazy workers to be laid off and unproductive enterprises to be shut down, with elaborate safeguards to find new jobs for the workers.