Vickers=isrmstrongs Cut Wages by £3 - 10 — Od Pir Week,

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Nearly 70 workers recruited by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness, from other ship—building areas when labour was scarce are to have their pay cut by 70/= per week according to a Financial Times report. The company has decided that it can no longer afford to give the men a subsistence allowance because thoy are : working away from home. A&A company spokesman said that the company had to be compot- ~itive. Some of tho workers claim that the cut is a polite way of giving them the sack as they cannot afford to lodge in Barrow and koep a home going elsewhere without the help of the allowance, In comparison when Vickers-Armstrongs had to pay the allowance to get men to the area, the Towns of Barrow and Dalton-in-Furness had 125 people unemployed in ship-building and marine engineering in November,