COST OF LIVING IN BRITAIN
Four Big Unions Seek Reduction LONDON, August 24. Four of Britain’s “big six” trade unions have decided to demand stronger action to make .the Labour Government cut the cost of living. The move brings to a climax months of negotiation between trade union leaders and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps) on wages, prices ,and production costs the key factors in Britain’s export trade and dollar problem. The attitude of trade union leaders to the demand will be decided when the general council of the Trades Union Congress meets to-day to give final approval to its economic policy report for the annual T.U.C. conference next month. The four unions making the demand are the Transport and General Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and the National Union of Railwaymen.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 268, 25 August 1949, Page 5
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