CAR INDUSTRY RECESSION
Workers Call On M.P.s
LONDON, Nov. 14.
Seven hundred workers in Britain’s slumping ear industry, mostly from the hard-hit Midlands, carried out a mass ‘‘lobbying’ ’operation today of members of Parliament at the House of Commons. They were admitted in batches of between 50 and 100, and later put their case concerning the industry’s short time and redundancy problems collectively, at a meeting in the grand committee hall near the House. They told M.P.s that the number now working short time because of the recession in the car industry was 150,000. with a threat of worse to come.
Before the “lobbying” about 2000 car workers walked in procession from London’s Marble Arch to Hyde Park. ’ At Caxton Hall they passed a resolution calling for a relaxation of the Government’s "credit squeeze” policy.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29363, 16 November 1960, Page 6
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