LESS WORK, DEARER FOOD.
Of 679,060 trade unionists, 61,619, or 9.1 per cent, were unemployed at the end o( Deoembor last, as compared with 8.7 per cent, at tho end of November, and 5.6 per cent, a y«ar ago. Employment, says the 'Board of Trade Gazette," was worse at tho end of 1903 than in any year since 1892. The main features of the year are summarised thus :— Average unemployment ... 7.8 per cont. Net fall in weekly wages ... £61,897 Workers whoso wages altered 908,627 Number of trade disputes ... 382 Days lost in disputes... .'.. 10,783,000 Fall in wholesale prices ... 2.9 per cent. Rise in price of food ... 2.6 per cent. Avorage rise in price of loaf 8 per cent.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 469, 30 March 1909, Page 7
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118LESS WORK, DEARER FOOD. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 469, 30 March 1909, Page 7
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