WAGES AND INDUSTRY
BRITISH BUILDING TRADE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 22, Dr Macriamara (-Minister of Labor), replying to a question in the House of Commons) said that an agreement" had been reached regarding the working hours in tho building trade..—A. and N.Z. Cable. BELGIAN METAL WORKERS. BRUSSELS, March 22. The metal masters have notified their intention of reducing wages 20 per cent, --A. and N.Z. Cable. REDUCTIONS BECOMING GENERAL. LONDON, March 23. (Received! March 24, at 8.55 a.m.) Wages in practically all, trades arc suffering further automatic reductions through the fall in the cost uf living. The Civil servants’ reductions will bperate Horn April 1, when t[io war bonus will he considerably diminished.
Tho shipbuilding engineers’ employees are opposing the proposed reductions; but tho employers arc adamant. Working men generally urge that, in view of automatic reductions in wages, rents should also be reduced.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17927, 24 March 1922, Page 4
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