HIGHER WAGES SOUGHT
ENGINEERING TRADES IN BRITAIN (80. W.) RUGBY. Sept. 14. Thirty-eight unions, representing workers in the engineering and .shipbuilding trades, have lodged a claim for a wage increase totalling approximately £100,009,000 annually in the most comprehensive wage Claim of the war. More than 2,000,000 workers are affected, including all the shipbuilding engineers except those working on huffs, also many people engaged in aeroplane plastic factories.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23744, 16 September 1942, Page 5
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