33 Secure implementation of the 40-hour week from January,1966.

3) Secure for all staff with 12 month's service an extra week's holiday, The Executive Committee decided to take our claims to the arbitration machinery for our industry, the Railways! Staffs! National Tribunal. However, the Minister for Economic Affairs, George Brown, decided his pet animal, the National Prices and Incomes Board, headed by a former Tory Minister, Aubrey. Jones, should examine the issues. ; ".eeThe evil day arrived and the P.I,B. issued its 8th Report. To the amazement of those who thought the railwaymen would recéive a fair deal from a body headed by an ex-Tory Minister...the report was so biased towards manage= ment as to be unbelievable. It is indeed real *RailtAlice in Wonderland stuff! It took this bunch twelve weeks to investigate and submit their reporte In this short time they produced conclusions which seek to destroy the findings of both the Cameron and Guillebaud Reports, the latter was the result of sixteen months careful end painstaking investigation. The P.I.B, report also seeks to re-establish the principle that rates of pay and conditeions of service of railway workers must be dependent on the atility of the BeR.Be to payseeethis infamous document seeks to lay down the principle that earnings and not basic rates shall be the yardstick to apply in the future. In other words, because the railway industry is short of staff...men are working Jong hours and foregoing Rest Days to keep the job, they must be petialised, according to the P.sI.Bs, for earning toe much..."