WAGES FOLLOW PRICES

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 22, 26 January 1921, Page 5

WAGES FOLLOW PRICES

REDUCTION AT BRADFORD. UNDER SLIDING SCALE. FISHERMEN TO STRIKE. (By Cable.—rress Association.—Copyright.) (Received 0 a.m.) LONDON, January 25. The National Wool Textile Industrial Council of Bradford has decided that women's wages shall be. redueefi by half si-crown and men's by three and vxpence per week under the sliding scale due to descending cost of living. Twelve thousand fishermen will be involved in a strike which is to start on Monday, and will affect the principal fishing ports cf England and Scotland. The trouble is the culmination of a three months' dispute at Grimsby between trawler ownere and men over the owners' proposal to reduce waijee by 40 per cent. (A. and S.Z. Cable.) WASTE OF STRIKES. WHAT THE WORLD HAS LOST. (Received 10.30 8.1 U.i LONDON. January 25. Statistics compiled by the "Manchester Gxiardian" rrveal thni during six months last year nearly 115,000,000 days were lost through strikes in the principal countries of the world, and 0.000,000 perrons were affected. The industries chiefly concerned were mining, iron, metal, shipping, and agriculture, and the countries affected were Germany, France. Italy, and Great Britain.—(A. and NZ. Cable.) TIMBER WORKERS CLAIM HIGH PAY. (Received It a.m.) SYDXKV, this day. The Timber Workers' Union is claiming new rates of pay for its members, as follow: Labourers £7 16/. shaper ha.nds £10 12/, and other employees £12 12/.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)