PAID GOVERNMENT SERVICE
(British OffldAl Wireless.) (Received March 1, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, February 28. The scheme of organising dock labour —described by Mr. Bevin as "the dockers' charter"-»-has been warmly welcomed as a great step forward in solving the problem of the most extreme class of casual labour in industry. .'• ■ , > . •The "Manchester Guardian" says that nothing in the last war compares with the scope of this plan to mobilise dock labour as a paid Government service. "To begin with," it says, "it is bemg applied in' Lancashire and'Cheshire ports on which so much of the burden of increased traffic is thrown. Later the Clyde will follow. The Govern-, ment hopes for great tilings from it. If we could, as Mr. Bevin suggests, get 'a 40 per cent, quicker turn-round* of ships and clearance at ports,-we should enormously improve our national position." Vi -, ~..,,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 51, 1 March 1941, Page 9
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