CONFERENCE URGED
WAGES INCREASES IN AMERICA PROBLEM OF SOARING PRICES (Rec. 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 19. The Executive Board of the Congress of industrial Organisations called on President Tnimari to convene mediately a labour and industry conference to consider immediate wage increases in view of the rising prices as the result of the termination of the Office of Price Administration. Mr Philip iMnrray, the president, said he would also ask,,Mr Truman to have the conference consider means of establishing adequate guarantees for a stabilised national economy. " The drastic wage cuts which rising prices have imposed on the great masses of salary workers, to whom a pledge of stabilised economy was given and hroken, create a national crisis." said Mr Murray. Most of the post-war union contracts were negotiatedrm the understanding that price controls would be firmly held. The Executive'Board stated that essential living costs rose approximately 40 per cent, in the past two months and 25>i>er cent, in the past fortnight. The board called for a buyers' strike throughout the nation
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Evening Star, Issue 25849, 20 July 1946, Page 8
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