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However, James A. True, a lobbyist for the AICUM, said yesterday that the association will argue to Owen Clarke, commissioner of taxation and corporation, that the schools were not informed of the tax enough ahead of time...
...section focuses on workers and bosses at one of Britain's major firms. Like the Bellamys and their servants in the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs, they cannot live apart, though their relationships are plagued by mistrust and class antagonisms. The factory chosen for the story belongs to Rubery Owen Holdings Ltd., Britain's largest privately owned manufacturing firm. For two weeks, Correspondent William McWhirter followed Managing Director John Owen and Doug Peach, the firm's senior union spokesman, around the company's main plant in Darlaston, and interviewed workers, foremen, efficiency experts and company directors...
...John Owen, Managing Director...
...There is no satisfaction in ruining the company. Nobody would have jobs. If the Lord spares me, I hope to finish my working life here at Rubery Owen. But it's no good blaming the unions for the state of the company. Management are there to manage. If I were a part of management, I'd try to find the answers. Since I'm not, I'm not going to do their thinking...
While pugnacious Doug Peach speaks of labor and management as "the Yanks and Russia," John Owen speaks nostalgically of an elusive "family spirit of generations of people on the shop floor whose fathers and grandfathers came here to work." Peach's is the dominant reality. But once a year the clock seems to move back to a time that John Owen yearns...