WARTIME STRIKES
PROFESSOR'S ANALYSIS
Rec 10 30-a.m. LONDON, Jan. 16. The total number of working days lost through strikes in Britain during the war is equivalent to less than one halfway, if spread over the "whole wage-earning population, stated Profesfor A. L. Bowley, economist ma broadcast. "So much Publicity has been given to strikes that their effect in hindering the national effort has been exaggerated," he said. Professor Bowley added that the official figure of the total days lost during the war was about five and a halt million. The number of strikes for higher wages had been extraordinarily small. Earnings had increased considerably in some cases, but the ordinary time rates for all industries averaged less than- 40 per cent, above the pre-war rates.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 5
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