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...from breaking the wage-restraint agreement. With 1.9 million members, the TGWU is the largest single union within the umbrella-like Trades Union Congress, which ostensibly represents organized labor in Britain. Now other major unions are demanding release from the agreement. At the mine workers' union convention in Tynemouth last week, delegates representing 262,000 members voted to demand raises by Nov. 1. The 1.3 million-member engineers' union has also voted against further wage restraints, and a host of smaller unions are expected to follow suit, creating a sudden and inflationary wage explosion...
Last week indignant Miss Ward, now M.P. for Tynemouth, told an audience of clubwomen in Newcastle how Socialism had interrupted her matutinal bathing. "One morning recently," she said, "I walked into the hotel and asked for my bath. I was told that the baths were available for men only." Undaunted, she swept upstairs alone, found four vacant bathrooms and took her a bath. "There was no towel," she told the clubwomen, "so I had to dry myself on the bathmat...
...Epping (now, happily, First Lord of the Admiralty) may well rejoice that he represented a constituency which TIME did not "mispronounce" (TIME, Sept. 4). The "Tight Little Islanders" from Torquay to Tynemouth pronounce Tewkesbury "Tschewksbry" - but never "Tooksbroo" as TIME'S esteemed Editors point...
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