WAGES IN BRITAIN
INCREASE SINCE 1914
AVEEAGE STATED AS 90 PEB CENT. (STD.NET SOU CAILI.) , (Received 21st August, 10.30 a.m.)' ! LONDON, 20th August. . The '.'Daily ■ Mail" states that a comparison of nineteen trades reveals an average increase iri wages ,of 90 per cent, since 1914. Some of the increases are :—Railway porters, 134 per cent"*; ticket colleetOre, 124' per cent, j engine-" drivers, 70 per cent.; dock labourers, 123 per cent.; bookbinders, 116 per cent.Vcarters, 108 per cent.; building labourers, 106 per cent.; building painters,' 101 per cent.; seamen, 100 per cent.; fire■men, 90 per cent.; agricultural labourers, 95 per cent.; tram-drivers, 93 pe* cent, j bricklayers, 81 per cent
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 7
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WAGES IN BRITAIN
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 7
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