LITTLE TIME LOST
FEW STRIKES IN BRITAIN LONDON, Feb. 22. Loss of time through strikes in Britain involved only 940,000 working days in 1940, the lowest during the 50 years in which records have been kept. The,first full year's figures of wartime wages increases and industrial disputes suggest far more stable labour conditions than marked the period 1914-18. Eight million fulltime wage-eaxmers received negotiated increases aggregating £2,148,000. There is nothing compai-able with this since the inflation days after the last war, when the 1919-20 increases amounted to £7,340,000. The slump which followed, however, in the next two yeai's, wiped out £10,210,000. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce appeals for a national wages policy, instead of piecemeal advances if inflation is now to be avoided.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 28 February 1941, Page 9
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