HC Deb 22 March 1949 vol 463 cc189-90
25. Mr. W. Shepherd

asked the Minister of Labour the total number of strikes notified to his Department during 1948; and how many originated in the mining industry.

Mr. Isaacs

The number of disputes causing stoppage of work which came to the notice of my Department in 1948 was 1,758, of which 1,115 were in the coal-mining industry.

Mr. Shepherd

Does the Minister consider that this answer lends colour to the suggestion that nationalisation is the means of wiping out disunity in industry?

Mr. Isaacs

Many of those strikes affect a comparatively few people and last only for a day or so but, judging from the information as to the causes of them, I am afraid they would have been much wider and longer had it not been for nationalisation.

Mr. McAdam

Could the Minister give the comparable figures for 1921?

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