INCREASED PAY IN BRITAIN
.. COST OF LIVING HIGHER . (BRITISH OmClil W1B8L898.) RUGBY, August 18. The changes in the rates of pay which came into operation in Britain last month are estimated to have resulted in an increase of nearly £ 60,000 in the weekly fulltime wages of more than 1,000,000 workers, and in a decrease of about £3BOO affecting 44,000. The principal increase was in the engineering industry. The Ministry for Labour s cost of living index on August 1 was approximately 46 per cent, above the level of July, 1914, and the same, as a month earlier. The corresponding percentage a year ago was 43*
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 4
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