BETTER RATIONS FOR HEAVY WORKERS
Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 12. The Ministry of Food announces a 75 per Qent, increase in tlie meat ration for unfi§rground eoalminers and can teens for l;uavy industrial workers from November 3. The miners will get 28d worth weeldy instead of 16d worth. The canteens' allowance will be increased from 2 2-7d worth to 4d worth per^main meal served. The decision to increase the meat and cantepn supplies for heavy workers , means that Mr. Strachey has given way j to the Trade Union Congress which earlier expressed "profonnd dissatisfacj tion" with tlie way wherein he and Mr, | Shinwell agreed to increase the miners' I ration without consulting the T.U.Q., | says the Daily Mail. About 100,000 ' workers in foundrie's, steel mills, ship- ! yards, railway wagon sheds and othe^ | heavy manual occu^ations will benefiL
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 October 1946, Page 5
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