This weok's Economist made this comment on the hilding settlement:
"By 11 votes to 8 the tuilding workers' unions have ratified their 3 yoar agrooment with the employers, thereby confounding the confident prodictions of "trouble shoad" by some prominent trade unionists..Certainly there had been some opposition from some members of the federation of bwilding unions,,.sThe rocl horo of tho disputs has bean that instrument sbhorrod of all yorkers and not managements, the National Incomes Commission, Ins it likely that, without Nic's rodomontade condemnation of the Scottish builders! agreement, the employers would have been as reluctant as they were to grant what the unions wanted?...."