GOVERNMENT PLANS TO MEET THE CRISIS

Wanganui Chronicle, 5 August 1947, Page 5

GOVERNMENT PLANS TO MEET THE CRISIS

TRADE UNION LEADERS SUGGEST QUID PRO QUO (N.Z. P. A.—Reuter—Copyright.) Recd. 6.30 p.m. London, Aug. 4. A number of trade union leaders are suggesting, as a quid pro quo for the concessions industry will be asked to make to meet the crisis, that the Government should not abandon its Socialist programme, that profits should be further restricted, and that release from the armed forces should be expedited, says the “Daily Telegraph.” Both the “Daily Telegraph” and the “Daily Express” say the Government will call for the extension to other industries of the longer working hours already proposed for the miners. The “Daily Express” says: “Whitehall chiefs and trade union leaders feel certain that the longer day plan will not work unless the plan applies to all industries on an equality of sacrifice principle and not just on those in the export industries or the pits.” Measures under consideration, according to the “Daily Telegraph,” include restoration of the control of engagement order to prevent workers leaving their trades, and investigation into the employment of about 1,000,000 workers whose work is unidentified.