WAGE RISE FOR ENGINEERING WORKERS IN BRITAIN
(Received September 2, 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 2. WJage increases of five shillings per week for engineers, and adjustments for apprentices are recommended by the Court of Inquiry. These will cost the industry thirty millions sterling a year, says “The Times’s” industrial correspondent. Two million employees are edThe Court suggested that special circumstances make the men’s claims admissible, in spite of a necessity to stabilise wages. The claim was a development from previous negotiations, which had been going on for a long time before the White Paper on wages, prices and profits was issued. >
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Grey River Argus, 3 September 1948, Page 4
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