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trades, and in future they will have to revise this. I want to be quite 

 clear now. The trade unions have a right to the reinstatement of their 

 rules, and it would be madness to give up a single one of the rules 

 unless they were convinced that the alternative was good. One of the 

 speakers rather implied that I had given away a deeply rooted plot 

 on the part of women workers in this matter. I do not believe that 

 there is one union that really thinks it would be to its advantage to 

 get every single rule reinstated that they had before the war. What 

 they have to do is to make a good bargain, and, as far as women are 

 -concerned, all we want is that women shall be admitted on a basis 

 which will keep up the standard rate of wages for men and women. 



