File 6 - Press cuttings about the railway pay inquiry and industrial dispute.

All dates 1960 except xxvii).

Contents:

i) Cartoon [in Evening Standard], 1 February;

ii) Cartoon in The Guardian, 3 February;

iii) 'Waiting for Guillebaud' in 'Table Talk', by Pendennis, in The Observer, 7 February [three copies; one retained];

iv) 'Five-week British Rail Strike Envisaged by Union's Secretary', by Drew Middleton, in The New York Times, 8 February;

v) 'Inquirer into Other People's Pay', in The Times, 10 February;

vi) 'The Big Pay-Out', in Daily Herald, 4 March, p. 1;

vii) 'A Challenge', in The Times, 4 March [two copies; one retained];

viii) 'Railway Pay Finding Would Cost £40M.' and 'Guillebaud Rail Pay Proposals', in The Times, 4 March, p. 12;

ix) 'The Plan for New Rail Pay Structure' (2 p.), 'Rail Unions' Attitude to Guillebaud' and 'Putting Things Straight', in The Financial Times, 4 March;

x) British Information Services news survey (typescript on B.I.S. letterhead; incomplete) summarising several papers' stories on the Guillebaud Committee report, 4 March;

xi) 'Guillebaud Call for 10pc Rail Rise', by Hugh Chevins, in Daily Telegraph, [c.4 March];

xii) 'Shock over Rail Pay Report', in Daily Mirror, 4 March, p. 1;

xiii) 'Rail Blockbuster', 'Rail Pay: This is the Verdict' and 'The Gully-Bod', in Daily Mail, 4 March;

xiv) 'Costly but Constructive', in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 4 March;

xv) 'Railway Wages', in The Guardian, 4 March;

xvi) 'Delivering the report' in 'London Letter', in Manchester Guardian Weekly [c.5 March], p. 6;

xvii) 'Railway Wages', in unidentified newspaper [c.5 March];

xviii) 'Review of Railway Wage Levels' (includes good portrait), in Modern Transport, 5 March, p. 9;

xix) 'Towards a Wages System', in The Sunday Times, 6 March, p. 10;

xx) 'Railways into Line' in 'The Week', ed. William Clark, in The Observer, 6 March, p. 6;

xxi) 'Applying Guillebaud', in The Financial Times,

8 March, p. 8;

xxii) 'Fewer Railways', in The Guardian, 9 March;

xxiii) 'Guillebaud's Travels', in The Spectator, 11 March, pp. 339-40;

xxiv) British Information Services news survey (typescript on B.I.S. letterhead) summarising several papers' stories on Macmillan's statement in the House on future of railways in Britain following the Guillebaud Report, 11 March (3 p.);

xxv) 'Scales of Railway Pay', in Modern Transport,

12 March (2 p.);

xxvi) 'Guillebaud's Other Face', in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 23 April;

xxvii) 'After Guillebaud', in The Guardian, 25 June;

xxviii) 'Plea for Round-table Rail Talks', by C.W. Guillebaud, in The Times, 28 January 1966, p. 13, together with Guillebaud's autograph letter of

29 January to his daughter Philomena explaining what drove him to write the article and describing his race to London to submit it and plead for its immediate publication before an important meeting between George Brown and the leaders of the railway unions (3 p.).