BRITISH WAGE INCREASES
• Bril L*h • Hliciai • RUGBY, February 11. Nearly 800,000 working people in industry received an increase in wage rates during 1940 equal to more than £104,000,000 annually. This estimate has been given by tiie Ministry of Labour, i t does not cover farm workers. shop assistants and Government employees. who also gained substantial improvements. 'i’lte new national minimum of I’2 8 - for agricultural workers resulted in increases of !> - to 17/- a week for men. which represent' it gain of some £1.700,000 a year for 500.000 persons.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 8
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88BRITISH WAGE INCREASES Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 8
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