Strike in U.K.
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, March 19. More than a million British workers struck for the second time in three weeks yesterday in protest against Government plans to reform industrial relations.
But leaders of the 10-mil-lion strong Trades Union Congress, grouping 150 unions, rejected demands that paralysing one-day strikes should be repeated regularly in the fight against the controversial measure, due to become law by mid-summer. Government estimates last night said that 1,250,000 workers stayed off the job today.
This was slightly higher than the number which took part in a protest strike on March 1, but it fell far short of the two million claimed by the militant unions.
A special emergency meeting of the T.U.C. voted by 5,366,000 to 3,992,000—a majority of 1,374,000 —for a policy of non-co-operation and persuasion rather than outright strike action. The attitude to militancy by delegates representing 10 million workers almost certainly means the end of oneday stoppages and demonstrations against the industrial relations measure.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32560, 20 March 1971, Page 17
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