DISPUTES IN INDUSTRY
BIG DECREASE IN LOSS OF TIME MINERS LOSE 9105 DAYS IN 1943 Working days lost through industrial disputes in the calendar year 1943 were 15,003, compared with 51,189 in 1942, states the "Abstract of Statistics.” The number of disputes actually showed an increase—69, against 65—but the number of workers involved was 10,935, compared with 14,345 in 1942, and the total duration of the disputes was 122J days, compared with 1431 in the previous year, the average duration of disputes falling from 2.20 days to 1.78 days. The approximate loss of wages through disputes last year was £20,179, compared with £63,179 in 1942.
By far the greatest loss of working days was in the coal mining industry, in which there were 33 disputes, involving 39 firms and 7823 workers. The average duration of the disputes was only 1.23 days, giving a total loss of 9105 man-working days and a loss of £13,516 in wages. Eight disputes in the meat-freezing industry and five in the shipping and cargo handling industry are next on the list, but the loss of working days, 566 and 477 respectively, is considerably less than that resulting from three disputes in the ship-building ;n----dustry, 2600.
DISPUTES IN INDUSTRY
Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24226, 6 April 1944, Page 6
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