ECONOMY DRIVE IN BRITAIN
Newspaper Predicts
Dismissals
LONDON, June 8 More than 20.000 civil servants will be dismissed in Mr Macmillan s dri ve to cut Government spending by £ 100,000.000, says the “Daily Express The dismissals will save up to £15.000.000 annually: most of them are to be made within the next nine| months, and many within the next four of Supply (Mr Maudling) has been ordered to dismiss 3500 persons. His warnings that this will put Britain still further behind in guided missiles and other defence Protects have been overruled. The Works Ministry is to dismiss 1100 of its staff, and more than 2000 are to leave the Ministry of Agriculture. Most of the men and women to be dismissed are temporary civil servants, but many have been in their jobs for several “Daily Express” quotes the Civil Service Union leader as saying. “This is the toughest Chancellor we have come up against. The chilliest wind for many a/ year is blowing through Whitehall.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27990, 9 June 1956, Page 9
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