Failure To Reduce Cost Of Living
Reeeivfed Fridav 8.50 p.m. , LONDON, June 24. Dissatisfaetion among trades' unions with the failure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the cost of living will be further ventilated sliortly as a result of the decision of the Council of Trades' Hnion Congress to seek a further meeting with Sir Stafford Cripps to diseuss the possibility of reducing retail prices. The General Council of the T.H.C. - has authorised the preparation of a series of proposals on the purchase tax. price control and food subsidies which will be submitted to the Chancellor at the pToposed meeting. " The unions are reported to be strongly in favour of re-examining the profit margins allowed to retail firms and of enforcing reduetions in a number of cases. » The T.H.C. has also decided to ask the Government for fuller consultatiou with the workers' representatives be fore appointments are made to tlie Board of Nationalised Industries. This follows criticism of recent appointments and of lack of worker representation in the "management expressed during the recent Labour Party Conference:
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 June 1949, Page 5
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