The National “ociety of Operative Printers and Assistants is to sponsor its own enquiry into the printing industry. This was decided at the September meeting of its executive counci]. Mr. Richard Brisinshaw, General Secretary, commented after the meeting that"separate and independent estimates" would, he felt, be able to prove the recen. seport on the industry by the National Board for Prices and Incomes to be "unfounded". He could not comment on the form of his study, or when it would be ready, until he knew whether the Government would take steps to open the industry's books to the unions as suggested by the Board.
A statement issued by NATSOPA yesterday called the Board's report "meagre and inadequate" and said the reference had been made for"reasons of political expediency". "In the frenetic rush to supply the political rather than the economic answers, the painstaking and perforce lencthy investigation and enquiry in depth was not undertaken"....ethe national interests are not served by toying with the problem,"