Interference spreter To THE "Nen.
London, June 1.
The National Committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, which is debating the attitude of engineers towards the rearmament programme, has decided that the Union will not tolerate any interference with the organization's rights and privileges, believing that any. form of dilution is not necessary and has not been justified.
The Committee had previously declined to commit itself to a refusal to pledge the organization's support of the programme under any eircumstance, Mr. J. C. Little, president of the Union, attacked Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Ca-ordination of Defence. said that in view of the admission that 264 obsolescent aeroplanes had been exported the engineers had been misled on -an important issue, which was not calculated to be helpful in a national emergency if one existed.—Reuter.
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