WAGE RISES IN BRITAIN
(0.C.) LONDON, July 4. Wages are still going up. The Ministry of Labour Gazette announces that in the first five months of this year rates have increased by about £1,000,000 a week. This, it is stated in the "Daily Herald," has been shared |by 6,650,000 people, which means that about four in ten now get more money, j In the corresponding period last year j a weekly increase of about £1,170,000 was shared among 6,240,000. An iateresting feature of this. comparison is that the National Arbitration Tribunal had not been established in the first half of 1940; . Increases were then secured by direct negotiations between employers and unions. This year many claims have been referred to the tribunal, and the latest returns show that it has not been a serious bar to higher wages. In June 470,000 men, including miners, iron and steel workers, railway engineers, and flourmill workers, shared weekly increases of £41,000. The Industrial Court has just announced that it had granted 3s 6d a week to drivers of commercial vehicles.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1941, Page 7
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