•Days lost through lock-outs and strikes:
less than 5 million • Days lost through influenza: 13 million • Days lost through bronchitis: 33 million •Days lost through accidents: 43 million •Total lost through sickness & accidents:
311 million Some readers have expressed incredulity at the figures for sickness and strikes published in 1967. H.M.S.O.
Days Lost through Strikes. (Male and Female)
Millions 1958 3.462 5.270 1960 3.024 1961 3.046 1962 5.798 1.755 2.277 1965 2.925 1T00 2,398 1967 2.787 1968 4.692 Source: Employment and Productivity Gazette. January 1969. H.M.S.O.
we Several interesting facts emerge from the official statistics. More days were lost in 1965-66 through Diarrhoea and enteritis (2.67m for men alone) than through strikes lost through industrial accidents and poisonings (24.25m) as strikes (lowest 1.755m in 1963 highest 5.798m in 1962).
The Black Dwarf April 18 1969 families to take direct action by moving into empty houses in the area and we want to hear from anyone prepared to take such action or give support.
Who the owners of the block are remains a mystery. The agents, both West End firms refused to give any information. It is known. though, that they were last asking yearly rent of £30,000.
What the authorities are fearing is beginning to happen: squatting is beginning to snowbali. A month ago the South London Squatters didn't exist. Now they are about 70-strong Already direct action taken in Ilford and elsewhere by people without homes has forced bureaucracy to make concessions. Redbridge Council, more plagued by squatters than any other local authority is now on the verge of allowing people to occupy empty houses on an
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(2.66m average for men and women combined). Between five and ten times as many days are