RISE IN WAGES.
INCREASE IN BRITAIN. LONDON. There was a marked rise in the general level of wage rates during 1937 in Great Britain, statistics tend to show. The number of workers whose rates of pay were increased and the total amount of the increases were greater than in any year since .1920. In those industries and services for which statistics are regularly compiled, the changes in rates of wages reported to the Ministry of Labour for 1937 resulted in an aggregate net increase estimated at about £985,000 in the weekly full-time rates of wages of 5,161,000 workers, and in a net decrease of £1687 in those of about 4400 workers.
• These statistics are exclusive of changes in rates of pay in agriculture and certain other fields of employment in which there also was some increase in wage rates during 1937. In all industries, including' agriculture, for which information is available, the average level of weekly full-.tipie rates of wages is estimated to have risen during 1937 by more than 4 per cent.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 18
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