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AEMS ACCELERATION PRIME MINISTER'S APPEAL RESOLUTION OF ENGINEERS NEGOTIATION IN PROGRESS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright British Wireless RUGBY, May 31 The Amalgamated Engineering Union, one of the largest unions concerned from the workers' side in the arms industry, discussed at a conference at Morecambe, the appeal addressed to the two sides in the industry by the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, and the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, that they should co-operate to facilitate the acceleration of production. The conference rejected a motion to refuse under any conditions to pledge the union's support of the Government's arms programme. The conference later passed a resolution approving the action of the executive in the negotiations to date with Sir Thomas Inskip and the employers, and emphasising the importance of a close scrutiny of any demand for the weakening of union safeguards—such as the dilution of skilled labour, which the resolution declared to be unnecessary.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23053, 2 June 1938, Page 13
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157UNION'S HELP New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23053, 2 June 1938, Page 13
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