WORKERS' EARNINGS
INCREASES IN BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 17. Changes in the wage rates reported to the Ministry of Labour in the first five months of the year are estimated to have resulted in a net increase of about £367,000 weekly in the full-time rates of over 2,900,000 workers, compared with an increase of £487,050 weekly in the whole of last year.
Assuming full-time employment, the increases in the past five months have added £181,000,000 to the annual earn!ngs of workers affected.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 144, 19 June 1937, Page 9
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84WORKERS' EARNINGS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 144, 19 June 1937, Page 9
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