ABSTRACT
Today, the interruption by industrial action of transport, fuel and power services is as much a part of everyday living as the rain. But the 1918 dispute brought the question of equal pay forcefully to the attention of a government for the first time since the issue had entered national politics with the Trade Union Congress of 1885. The inquiry, known as the Atkin Committee of the War Cabinet, recommended equal pay where women were achieving equal results with men under piece-work, when replacing a man or where agreement had been reached by employers and trade unions on women doing the same or similar work on a time basis.
