INDUSTRY AND WAR
EXTRA EFFORT AND STRIKE Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 21
After the Minister of Aircraft Production, Sir Stafford Cripps, had addressed a private meeting one thousand key men of 500 of the largest aircraft factories in Britain, at a meeting, passed a resolution pledging the industry to devote its untiring efforts to provide the R.A.F. and also the Fleet Air Arm with the greatest output of aircraft within its power.
Meanwhile, nearly twenty thousand workers —about 5000 miners, over 4000 Clydeside shipwrights, and between 9000 and 10,000 engineers—are on strike in Britain. In addition, 12,000 women employed in a north-eastern engineering establishment have given their employers 14 days' notice in which to begin negotiations for equitable grading of workers, failing which they threaten 21 days' notice to cease work. They ask for the same pay as men for identical work.
The miners' strikes have occurred in various pits over such causes as miners being fined. The Clydesiders are demanding payment on a piecework basis, while about 9000 employees of Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., at Bar-row-in-Furness have decided not to resume work until they are paid the national tribunal award which 'was made last March.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 5
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