Scottish Electricians May Strike.

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from a Scottish correspondent Ten Thousand Scottish contracting electricians are threatening to take strike action over the Government's refusal to allow payment of an extra 1s an hour in line with a productivity agreement applying in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Scottish agreement was not signed until July 21 last, and the increase has been frozen until next July -- although it will be paid in the South and in Northern Ireland in March, Mr. William Blairford, executive council officer for the Electrical Trades Union in Scotland, said today that the Prices and Incomes Board obviously felt the situation in Scotland was different to that in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Both employers and men, however, disagreed. For the first time, men in the electrical trades in Scotland working with tradesmen from England would be paid different rates if the injustice was not removed,