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f be following text has been submitted for discussion at The Voice Steel Conference ARGUMENT: I

The Steel Industry must be rationalised and concentrated into five or six main groups; The Steel Industry must be brought under national control by Parliament as part of the basis of national economic planning; The power of the British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF) and the interlocking directors must be broken and private monopoly replaced by public control; Steel must be integrated with coal, power, transport, ports, etc., into regional economic planning and development; Parliament, the Steel Workers and the Public must be supplied with maximum information on the costings which lead to location, investment and pricing policies; detailed costings to be made available to workers’ representatives at all levels; Representatives of Trade Unions in steel must be associated at national and plant level, not only with control decisions but directly in management, subject to not prejudicing the present rights of Unions in collective bargaining over wages and conditions.