Higher Wages in Britain
AVERAGE LEVEL RISING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 21. The Minister of Labour informed the House of Commons at question time that in those industries for which statistics were regularly compiled changes in the rates of -wages reported during the year just ended were estimated to have resulted in a net increase of £487,000 a week in the fulltime rates of pay of about four million workpeople. It is estimated that in industries for which information is available, the average level of wages rose by about 3 per cent, during the period, being the largest proportional increase in any year since 1924,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 5
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106Higher Wages in Britain Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 5
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