NEWSPAPER STRIKE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27634, 15 April 1955, Page 13

NEWSPAPER STRIKE

Dim Prospect Of Settlement

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, April 14. Prospects for a settlement of London’s newspaper strike are no brighter today after the release of the report of the court of inquiry, which described the strike as “unjustifiable.” The “Yorkshire Post” says prospects for a settlement are poor. The “Manchester Guardian” said that when protective dismissal notices on other workers come into effect tomorrow there would be a danger of

the scope of the dispute widening. “Unions, not merely the engineers and electricians, should realise how near the brink of disaster they have come,” it said. “Order must be established and an effort made to substitute genuine co-operation for sectional jockeying for position.” The Communist “Daily Worker” said that in recommending the formation of a central negotiating body for the industry, the Court had produced a formula not for a settlement, but for a deadlock.

The Court’s report, which described the demands by 700 electricians and maintenance engineers for an extra £2 18s 6d a week as “unrealistic,” urged the strikers to return to work pending the establishment of a new wage-negotiating body to include all 14 unions in the newspaper industry. The Minister of Labour (Sir Walter Monckton) has called the leaders* of both sides for talks this morning.