BRITISH RAILWAYMEN
CLAIMS REJECTED TRIBUNE’S AWARD (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, January 5. The Railway Staff National Tribunal 'decided against the claim-of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen for a standard day of six Four* and a standard week of 36 hours, abolition of percentage deductions from earnings, concessions on Sunday duty, overtime and night duty, and two weeks’ holiday with full pay after 12 months’ service. The award states that She annual extra cost to companies, if he concessions asked for were granted, would amount to /£9,704,000. If the elaim was granted to all classes of rail*sy employees, the annual extra cost eoald not he less than about £50,000,000. The sward adds: “ All the earnings of the railways could not suffice for such a sum in addition to the present wages, even if all classes of investors, including debenture-holders, _ were deprived of the whole of their interest dividends.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22540, 7 January 1937, Page 9
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153BRITISH RAILWAYMEN Evening Star, Issue 22540, 7 January 1937, Page 9
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