WAGE RISES DEMAND
SOARING PRICES IN UNITED
STATES
WASHINGTON, July 19.
The executive board of the Congress of Industrial Organisations has called on Mr. Truman to convene immediately a conference of representatives of labour and industry to consider immediate wage increases because of the rising prices after the termination of price controls. Mr. Philip Murray, president of the congress, said that he would also ask Mr. Truman to have a conference to consider means of establishing adequate guarantees for a stabilised national economy.
“The drastic wage cuts which rising prices have imposed on great masses of salary workers to whom the pledge of a stabilised economy was given and broken, will create a national crisis,” Mr. Murray said. Most post-war union contracts had been negotiated on the understanding that price controls would be firmly held.
The C. 1.0. executive board said that essential living costs had risen about 40 per cent, during the last two months, and 25 per cent, in the last fortnight. The board called for a nation-wide buyers’ strike.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1946, Page 5
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