What is wrong with the British iron and steel industry?

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Identifikator:: 1868556093

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-249484

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: What is wrong with the British iron and steel industry?

Place of publication:: [London

Publisher:: The London Caledonian Press]

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: 23 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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other -raw materials, the co-ordination of research work, the distribution of orders and the marketing of the finished products. (d) (e) The Central Board would act for the industry as a whole in formulating agreements with other countries in regard to inter-trading relations, and would have authority to regulate, restrict .or prohibit imports if the nature of the competition and other eircum- stances justified that course, and to fix prices of iron and steel in the home market, with due regard to the necessity of stimulating the activities of important using trades. Regional Joint Conciliation Boards to be set up to deal with Wages and Conditions of Labour that are local in character and a National Joint Conciliation Roard to deal with those of a national character. 5. In the application of a scheme of national organisation and with a view to conserving the skill and experience of labour in the industry, where a works is permanently closed down and where by adjustments in working hours or other suitable means employment cannot immediately be found for the workpeople displaced, compensatory payment shall he made to them pending their being taken into employment, Further, suitable provision shall be made for the transfer of such labour to other places where developments are carried out under the national scheme, the Ministry of Labour and other departments concerned to assist in facilitating the transfer where necessary by advaneing railway fares and removal eosts and in the provision of houses, ete. 6. Meanwhile, the Government should give the fullest possible encouragement and assistance fo such schemes and developments as are already contemplated by progressive firms or groups of firms in the industry, provided these can be fitted into a national scheme of organisation, and to secure that the progressive efforts in question are not frustrated by. reason of the failure to secure the immediate adoption of tha national scheme. 7. Finally we call upon the British Government ‘to strenuously renew its efforts to secure the adoption of the recommendations of the World Economic Conference of 1927, and to co-operate with any other Government in that direction, such an international policy being designed to promote the seonomie and social welfare of the people and world peace.

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