Workers! Safety Committees Niwded

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"A real and serious increase in the number of reportable accidents is revealed by the Chief Inspector of Factories in his #nual report for 1964," writes the editor of the Transport and General Workers! Record in the December issue, "Accidents reported during the year totalled the highest since the wars: 268,648, an increase of 31.5 per cent over the 1963 total of 204,269; the number of fatal accidents increased from 610 to 6556 It is true that the long-term trend of fatal accidents 1s slowly downwardes. It is also to be remembered that with an increasing labour force and a rising level of production more people are at risks..Nevertheless.e.the figures indicate a real and serious increase," These forbidding tendencies underline yet again the importance of the TUC decision to pursue legislation for elected workers! safety committees, with effective powers, in every enterprise. The campaign to implement this decision should be quickly set in motion.