BRITISH LABOUR MARKET
' .LONDON, January 23
The Ministry of Labour today stated that wages rose from 4 to 4£ per cent, in 1939, but the cost of living index rose 12 per cent. The effect of the war was evident' in the rise of £830,000 weekly in wages and of 4,750,000 in the number of people' at work,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 10
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