U.3. D.a.i. Annual Delenate Misting

meete in Blackpool on April 26, 27, end 28, Hours and wages are the main topics. Leeds co-operative wants a univeresl five-day 40-hour workin, week established for a11 shop workers without any extension of late night working. There are no less than 19 resolutions on hours. Mages and holidays are the two other sain issues to be debated. 13 resolutions on wages and ten on annual holijays have been submitted, Derby co-operative calls for a vigorous policy to improve pay, while Nottin ham C....S. instructs that special attention be given to the wages of the lower paid sections of membership. Watford co-operative serka an immediate application for a wage increase of 7: for all members, It cousiders a percentage application should be the basis of future wage applications to safeguard all differentials, and calls for eettienents ta be retrospective to the date of the first meeting of negotiating parties, Birmingham co-operative branch ia concerned with establishing the five-day 40 hour working week in the national afreemente for co-operative service. It ersues that if thig principle is to be established throuvhout distribution it is essential thet a2 start be made with agreements with the co-operatives. Hucknall and London co-operative branches went 3 weeks! holiday to be minimum for all co-operative employers. A major row on the wages front will take place over the question of equal pay for «qual work, There is very considerebdle dissatisfaction with the fact that althouzh this has been the policy of the union for cany years, azresnents are still being entered into which widen the gap between men's and women's waz es. On the wider political front, London C.1.S, regrets the omicsion of any reference tc industrial democracy in "Signyoats for the Sixties", I+ inatructs the executive council to formulate a policy for workers’ control within the publicly owned co-operative movements.