LOWER WAGES
RAILWAY AGREEMENT. great saving will result. (BBITIBH OFTICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY. July 29. All parties to the railway agreement which was reached as the result of direct negotiations between the railway company managers and the Railwaymen's Unions on Friday, are cungraui lated by the Press for the sound common sense shown in accepting an agreement, which involves small temporary all-round reductions in wages and salaries of all grades of workers and railway directors. It is stated that there will be a reduction of between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000 annually on the total wages bill of £100,000,000. In the great railway centres of Crewe and Derby the settlement is generally welcomed. The "Observer" says: "The agreement will take a distinctive place in the history of industrial negotiations and settlements. It is regarded as establishing a new principle that if workers are called on to accept an adverse modification of their conditions they are entitled to ask that everyone engaged in the enterprise shall come within the scope of the concessions."
WORKERS APPROVE THE CUTS. (Received July 30th, 8.15 p.m;) LONDON, July 30. The railwayraen in many centres have approved of the wages cuts.—Australian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 31 July 1928, Page 7
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