BRITAIN’S CIVIL SERVICE DISCUSSES PROPOSED CUTTING
Recd. 6.15 p.m. London, Jan. 20. Seven thousand members of the Civil Service Trades Unions attended a meeting in the Central Hall, Westminster, and the two adjoining bali?:, to consider Government suggestions that the number of civil servants in Britain be reduced. Union spokesmen reported that heads of departments had agreed that unless the Government reduced its nationalisation programme substantial cuts in the numbers of civil servants was impossible. Sc much work had already been done, it was claimed, it already was impossible to observe the agreed working hours of 44 in the provinces and 42 in London. The pre-war Government employed 384,000 civil servants. Now it employs 710,000, nor including local authority employees.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 January 1947, Page 5
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