WAGES RESTRAINT IN BRITAIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 45, 3 December 1949, Page 5

WAGES RESTRAINT IN BRITAIN

POLICY OF TU.C. COMMENDED

LONDON, Dec. 2.

Sir Robert Sinclair, president of the Federation of British Industries, applauded Britain’s Trades Union Congress last night for its advocacy of incentive payments for workers and restraints on increased wages. i

“The T.U.CYs declaration is a courageous attempt to adjfist the wages policy to the national need. There is nothing in what the T.U.C. said that goes against the principle of greater reward for greater effort. We must get. our costs down and beat the rest of the world in salesmanship. You don’t do that sort of thing by following a policy of restriction. You need encouragement of enterprise and effort.” Sir Robert'Sinclair said that Britain’s internal problems were bound up with excessive regimentation and control, under which the country had been suffering for the last three or four years. It was perhaps an inevitable consequence of the attempt to do too much in too short a time that Britain was finding herself loaded with an intolerable taxation burden.