Five discussions on questions facing trade unionists today
4-The Closed Shop
Frank Donachy
An official of the National Union of Railwaymen from Edinburgh
Jack Higgins
A member of the Transport and General Workers' Union who works in a Birmingham Motor Factory
Asa Briggs
Professor of Modern History in the University of Leeds, formerly Reader in Recent Social and Economic History in the University of Oxford
Changes in organisation and in methods constantly give industry new problems to solve. Until fresh principles are agreed and established, these problems tend to recur again and again as causes of industrial unrest.
In each of the programmes of this series, two trade unionists and an economic historian will discuss one of the principles which has been at stake in recent industrial disputes.