LABOUR'S DEMANDS.
: ♦ MINERS CLAIM A RISE IN WAGES. BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT!. I i London, November 29. At a conference yesterday, tho Miners' Federation recommended that when the new wages agreements aro mado tho standard should bo 30 per cont. above tho rate of 1879 and of 1888. , , ; Out of 1,866,755 trade unionists in Great Britain, 501,248 belong to the mining and quarrying section. "Hazell's Annual" states that in 1905 250,000 labourers in the United Kingdom suffored decreases in weekly rates of wages; of which number 194,000 wero coal miners.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 7
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90LABOUR'S DEMANDS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 7
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