WORK AND WAGES
BRITISH MINERS’ ULTIMATUM
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, October 9.
The Miners’ Conference unanimously decided in favor of a uniform minimum wage of 8s per day throughout the federatdonlarea.
After a debate behind closed doors, the Conference decided that Messrs T. Burt and C. Fenwick, M-P-s, who recently declined to pledge themselves to the Labor ticket, must sign the ticket or lose the miners’ support. FALL IN WAGES. LONDON, October 9. A report which has been issued by the Labor Department of the Board of Trade shows that a steady downward movement in wages began early in 1908, and that during last year the wages of 930,000 workpeople were reduced. The wages of 1,091,586 people were reduced during the first six months of 1909, entailing a reduction in wages of £57,744 weekly.
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Evening Star, Issue 14186, 11 October 1909, Page 6
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