matter how desperately you may need one.
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capacity on responses to the plan.
Capitalsni 1s a 555ccmIn which production is determined Dy Dront tauT man soch need. It is also a system where workers are employed and discarded in accordance with the whims of the market.
The strategy proposed by the Lucas Acrospace combine shop sichards continee Is ualguc Anticipating redundancies, the combine committee began in 1974 co-ordinate production of a corporate plan.
VOLUMES The plan, which now rums 10 six volumes, details a series of he made using the skills of the present workjoice. Not only keep all the work force fully keep all the workforce employed, bur instead producing items such (obsolete) mechanical systems for jet engines, the products corporate plan are all potentially socially useful.
They Include transport sys electrical braking medical equipments, telechiric (hands at a distance) machines, and oceanics. Re search and development of some of these projects is at present taking place in the recently extablistied Centre fo Alternative Industrial IF YOU are under 15 or over 45 and live in Birmingham you will not be eligible for a kidney machine, no A portable kidney machine is among the 150 products included in the corporate plan prepared by the combine shop stewards committee in Lucas AeroIn this article, presented by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, TOM REILLY, a steward for TASS — the Engineering Union's white collar section — at Lucas, reports in a personal Technical Systems at NE Wanna Pa VienC The stewards, BUT SELL BEES BES panacea for workers under SULTE they certainly Bot the assuRio 01 this corporate plan that Lucas into a trail blazer to transform this situation in the There can be no islands of responsihility and concern in the sea of irresponsibility and depravity.
Not surprisingly, the response of Lucas Acrospace management has been less: esthusiastic. While most firms these days are only too keen to diversify, Lucas rejected the plan occause anD IDE proposals were 'incompatible" of Win sis current i Douct Tange.
T1LE Yet in the 1977 review for shareholders and employees the Company claimed: "In the from of out minds will need 1o be the conviction that everything we are doing is being done in the interests of people, and the only ultimate resources we have are human ingenwity and effort.
To this end, the Aerospace division recently announced the with the 1,500 jobs. and sacking further Bradford factories. And more jobs are threatened.
This response is not just that of a single employer. Behind Lacas stands the Government, which is Lucas Acrospace's biegest customer significant customer for many ciner pans or tne empire. programmes have been substantially assissed by the State. with the payment of interest however, do ARE say: It is message from the South Oxford Nursery where parents and supporters have been in isolation, occupation weeks against the threat workers at the Coventry and, charges on borrowed capital.
INHABEL 1970-71. balance sheet Industries last July and Lucas employed investment on the That's the Class for It benefited substantially with ures -BULLLIE Lucas Aerospace together in consolidated for Lucas showed deferred taxation at E56m, 13 per cent of the total capital Lucas is therefore heavily committed to the Government and it seems inconceivable that the company would attempt such "policically delicate clos at least tacit CORE TENUE!
Goverment Ministers and the TUC expressing sympathy for the combine comatittees Acrocapital with unique demands and at the same time are giving _FOr workers penerally new hope. They are demonstrating that while the demand for the richt to work is of itself correct, it is also inadequate in contronting capital.
Tactically they are treading new ground. Should they win, workers will gain encouragement to go forward for further demands of this type. should all play whatever role we can in assisting victory further information contact = the Centre Alternative and Technological Systeits, NELP, Longbridge Road, Dagenham,