In 1946, the Royal Commission on Equal Pay concluded tentatively that women in teaching and certain grades of the civil service might benefit from equal pay. Three women [including Anne Loughlin] on the Commission thought equal pay should be extended to women in industry and produced a minority report. This pamphlet published by the Labour Research Department supported the TUC view that the Government should implement the Commission's recommendations in Government industrial establishments and in the non-industrial civil service in the hope that it would set a precedent to influence negotiations in private industry and commerce. It also called for improved trade union organisation of women.
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