INCREASED BRITISH PRODUCTION
APPEAL BY ELECTRICAL WORKERS’ UNION LONDON, September 14. The first response to the appeal by the President of the Board of Trade (Sir Stafford Cripps) to British industry to make a greater effort to meet the economic situation came from the representatives of more than 170,000 electrical workers. The executive council of the Electrical Trades Union decided to ask all members to raise output, remove restrictive practices, and take the lead in a greater productive effort in the factories where they are employed. The national committee of engineering shop stewards, in a statement on Sir Stafford Cripps’s plan, said: “We reject defeatist implications that social services must be cut and the re-equipment of industry postponed. That is the solution offered by the Federation of British industries. It would be done at the expense of the working class and it would mean repeating the 1931 conditions in a worse form/’
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25290, 16 September 1947, Page 7
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