change or the banks. time it has to make a five percent return on capital and repay E45m in loans to the government.
The telecommunications revolution can be a tremendous force for bettering the lives of ordinary people. It cries out for an integrated system. This means planning, not the anarchy of a system based on profitability. workers control in order to ensure that the bureaucratic functioning of today is overcome and to allow the industry to be run in the interests of the workers and not the city sharks. This has to be our message and our demand on any future Labour government as we fight to defend our industry.
• Socialist Challenge - 15 October 1962 Yet at the same It requires CONFIDENTIAL aper forecasts the ax Britich Telecom (BT) 15,000 jobs in words one in four in the next 5 years Guardian 14 Sept). report, prepared by BTs Mr Adam Scott. will go before the BT board In January.
management's own 15.000 to be axed over s natural wastage ar of the 13,000 over sixtie Plans for the Eastern Recion to increase pro Include the lapsing of 1.000-1.500 by 1985 the Scotland Region the plan spend less on capital accounts 82/83 includes reducing 5 percent -in March 1983 order book being reduced by ovartime recruitment. They want to cut 929 jobs in the Op in For one an it ministration. This is the leAd into a turther 1,530 combined ser. vices by March 1984 When Patrick said House f Commons speech announcing the tal the way 5i sale of BT 1 Jefferson and his board are transforming what as not so long ago a Government SHELL a commer business he was prais ing the threat to our