The Archive · 1939

Council's Purpose

"The purpose of the Council is to advise the Government on questions in which employers and workers have a common interest."

The Minister of Labour stated that skilled Trade Union. workers had voluntarily agreed to allow less skilled workers to work. by their side on work so far reserved for skilled men. the. A register of such cases would be kept, 30 that when peace conditions returned, the position of skilled men would rot be prejudiced.

Mr. Brown continued with a survey of the way various industries were dealing with particular difficulties occasioned by the war.

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