REFUSAL OF WAGE INCREASES WOULD MEAN DISPUTES
Mr. Mark Lewitson, leader of Britain's second largest Trade Union. told Psriiament in the resumed debate on the Budget that the Budget would lead to a "spate of wage inerease applications." He said that if the Government sair1 "no" to the applications "there wil1 be industrial disputes such as there never have been in this country since the end of the first World War." He added: "We are not going to allow the back of the Trades Union Congress to be broken. If necessary we shall fight, and the Gover.nment cannot afford to fight against us who represent Ihe organised workers of the countrv. J give a warning that the writing is on the wall. The Government hap either got to help — or else. If this Government is going to depress us below the line of safety we shall( fight for it as we did in the oast against Tories and Tory employers."
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1949, Page 5
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