Why Engineers Wants £1 Week Rise
Received. Friday 8.50 p.m. LONDON,, Nov. 2\ Members of the two and a-half million strong Confederation of ShipbiiildV ,ing and Engineering Unions. who. are; :demanding an allronnd inerease of £1 )a week in d.efiance 'of the wage freez- ; ing appeal by the Trades Union Con-' I gress told representatives of the em- ; ployers that their claim could be- met out of the £4^55,000,000 'profits made by their industries last year. This profit, ■ they contended, represented £3 a head*. : fof every worker employed in the shipbuilding and engineer-i-ng, and. they contended that £1 a week extra could: bepaid to every kvorker without putting up costs. The chairmaik of tfie Comfederatiott, Mr Harry Brotherton, elaimed that rising production since 1946 had gone for the most part into increased* profits while the rise- in wdrkers' wages- hadnot even kept pa.ee with the increased., cost of living. | He accused the employers of failing I to play their1 part by limiting profits. , I Sir Alexander Ramsey, ,a director of ( the Employers' Federation-, sa.id that ; his organisation would submit a* dietajb j ed reply to the men 's claims? in about I three weeks ' tima.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 December 1949, Page 5
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