VAST ARMY OF FOREIGN WORKERS.
. LONDON, Feb. 22. The Daily MaiJl's political correspondent sa'ys Cabinet is mkking definite plans to import 40.0,000 foreigu workers. The Minist^y df He$ijh has ordered to organise housiiig * for them. At least 30,000 will gq to the mining areas, and others to the cotton and woollen trades. The Prime Minister intends, without delay, to call the trade unions and industrial leaders into consultation on this and other means of implementing the White Paper programme of "work harder than ever". Sir Stafford Cripps, discussing the implications in the Wliite Paper "about- incentives for harder work, indicated that there was a possibility of a differential tax in favour of workers.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 February 1947, Page 8
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113VAST ARMY OF FOREIGN WORKERS. Chronicle (Levin), 24 February 1947, Page 8
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