BIG WAGE CUT
FOR 200,000 WORKERS. (Times Service). LONDON, June 8. “The Times” Manchester correspondent states: Pence in the Lancashire cotton trade is gravely threatened by the employers’ decision to revi-c iheir last year’s proposal of a twelvenind ahalf per cent, wages cut. for which they have called a special meeting on June 21st. The correspondent states: The claim will enable more successful competition with oilier countries, resulting in increased sales, fuller employment, and onsefjiiently higher individual wages. ’’ he proposal affects two hundred thousand operatives, whose lenders announce that it will he strenuously opposed .
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1929, Page 4
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94BIG WAGE CUT Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1929, Page 4
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