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'Go slow' ends

12 July 1962

"GO-SLOW" ENDS

Between 200 and 300 clerical workers at British Motor Corporation Service, Cowley, decided at a lunchtime meeting yesterday to call off a "go-slow" started yesterday morning against the management's failure to meet demands for a wage rise.

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