THE COAL STRIKE
CABLE NEWS
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SETTLEMENT IN VIEW PROPOSED MINIMUM WAGE. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) LONDOX, February 21. The English coal-owners' scheme propose:; a- minimum wage of 7s 3Jd for abnormal places, and 6s 3£d 'in other places. It is understood that the miners are averse to more than sixpence difference between the two rates. The Daily Chronicle states that o;x> suggested settlement is that the minimum wages should be given three months' trial, the State bearing, any extra cost to the coalowners.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10565, 22 February 1912, Page 5
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91THE COAL STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10565, 22 February 1912, Page 5
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