BRITAIN’S INDUSTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 September 1943, Page 6

BRITAIN’S INDUSTRIES

DISPUTES SPREADING (Rec. 11 mm.) LONDON, Sept. 21. After the Aircraft Production Minister (Sir S. Cripps) addressed a private meeting of 1000 key men of 500 of the largest aircraft' factories in Britain, the. meeting passed a resolution pledging the industry to devote 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 20,000 workers —about 5000 miners, over 4000 Clydeside shipwrights, and between 9000 and 10,600 engineers,—are on strike. In addition, 12,000 women employed in a mirth-east engineering establishment have given the employers 14 days’ notice, in which m begin negotiations for an 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. .Miners’ strikes occurred al various pits over such causes as the miners being fined. The Clydesiders are demanding _ payment on ti piecework basis, while about 9000 employees of Vickers Armstrong, Earrow-in-Fur-ness, decided not to resume work until paid the National Tribunal award made last March.