Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 October 1949.
Mr George Isaacs
, Southwark North
12:00,
20 October 1949
The number of working days lost through industrial disputes causing stoppage of work from V.E. day to the end of September, 1949, was approximately 10¼ million. In the corresponding period after 1914–18 war, the number was nearly 170 million.