DIRECTION OF MANPOWER
ADVISORY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER PLAN (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. The National Joint Advisory Council, representing employers and trade unionists, next week will consider details of the Cabinet’s plan to take manpower from wholly unproductive trades into those held to be essential, It Will also, according to the political correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” discuss the absorption into industry of a large number of men and women expected to be released from the armed forces in the near future. Most of the Ministers, among them the Minister of Labour (Mr George Isaacs), hold the view that the maximum humber of workers should be employed in production 4 rather than distribution, but othets, including the Minister of Food (Mr John Strachey) say that persons such as “barrow boys,” Who do ho productive work, also fulfil a useful function. They think, that such people should not be diverted from their preserit activities.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 9
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