WAGE INCREASES
SO PER CENT. SINCE 19U RISES IN VARIOUS TRADES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 20. (Received August 21, at 11.30 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Mail ’ lias published a coin par tsdiTbf wages in nineteen trades, which reveals au average increase of 90 per.cent, since 1914. Tno largest increases are: Railway porters 134 per cent., ticket collectors 124 per cent., engine drivers 70 per cent., dock laborers 123 per cent., bookbinders 116 per cent., carters 108 per cent., building laborers 106 per cent., building painters 101 per cent., seamen 100 per cent., firemen 90 per cent., agricultural laborers 95 per cent., tram drivers 93 per cent., and bricklayers 81 per cent.—Sydney ‘ Sun 1 Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19025, 21 August 1925, Page 7
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114WAGE INCREASES Evening Star, Issue 19025, 21 August 1925, Page 7
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