WAGE INCREASE FOR BRITISH WORKERS
37 SHIPBUILDING AND ENGINEERING UNIONS (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 24. The executives of 37 unions belonging to the British Engineering and Shipbuilding Confederation, representing nearly 3,000,000 workers, have accepted a 5s weekly wage increase for their members in place of the 13s they had demanded
An independent court of inquiry set up by the Ministry of Labour recommended an increase, in spite of the Government’s policy of pegging wages.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25610, 27 September 1948, Page 3
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