Fewer Strikes in 1966

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from an industrial correspondent Britain had fewer strikes in 1966 than in any year since 1953. The . decrease of 424 in the number of stoppages beginning in the year, from 2,354 to 1,930, was mainly reflected in mining where the number of workers is declining (although the drop in the number of strikes is much greater than the proportionate loss of manpower). There were also falls in working days lost in the following industrial groups: Motor vehicles and cycles aoe shipbuilding and marine engineering (104,000), metal manufacture 104,000) anda engineering (100,000), The exception to the rule was in transport where the seamen's strike caused @ loss of 850,000 working days. Editorial note: we have commissioned a fuller article on this subject,