HOW WAGES HAVE INCREASED.
Received Mondav, 7 p.m. LOXDOX, Xov. 3. Figures published 111 the Ministry of Labour Gazette shovv that the average weekly wage in Britain is now £5 3s (id, nearly double the average rate prewar. The average weekly wage for men is now £6 3s 5d and for women £3 7s 4d. This is for a 45-hour week compared with a 4(5i-iiour week preVar. Doc.kers, steel workers, motor manu faeturing workers and coalminers ali earn an average of more than £7 weekly. The average rate for miners is now £7 ls (id weekly. Since January I this year, 2,829.000 workers in maimai trades received wage increases totaliing £804, 700 a week, while 4,600,000 workers had their hours redueed by an average of 3£ weekly this year. The average hourly rate for all trades is now 2s 3id, the highest ever paid in Britain and almost exactly double tlie average hourly rate in 1938.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1947, Page 5
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