SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN
UNIONS’ REQUEST FOR NATIONALISATION
LONDON, November 22.
Thirteen shop stewards from the shipbuilding and allied unions at key British centres, and a representative of the industry’s unemployed, went to the House of Commons to-night and put before 20 Labour members of Parliament a case for the nationalisation of shipbuilding, and other measures which, they claimed, would help to meet the threat of further unemployment.
The men said that dismissals of shipyard workers were growing rapidly. In addition to nationalisation, they suggested a tax on 1 ship repairs carried out abroad. The Labour members said that the Labour Party had already considered and shelved a proposal to nationalise the industry, but they promised to see that the men’s case received consideration.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25969, 24 November 1949, Page 7
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