WALES COLLIERS INCENSED
MINIMUM WAGE AWARD. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.' LONDON, '9th Jnly. The colliers are incensed at Lord St. Aldwyn's award* of a minimum wage of a fraction under seven shillings per day for coal-getters. Mr. darker, a member of the executive of the Miners' Federation, declares that the rates embodied in the award are more than a shilling below the average, leaving 65 per cent, of the colliers wlio do not receive any benefit under the Minimum Wage Act.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1912, Page 7
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82WALES COLLIERS INCENSED Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1912, Page 7
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