Higher Pay For English Association Players
LONDON. April 15. The national arbitration tribunal which was set up to enquire into the dispute between the players’ union and the Football League, has issued its award. It is one giving the footballers in the English League clubs the wages that they sought. The award provides for a maximum wage of £l2 per week and a minimum wage of £7 weekly during the playing season, with a maximum and minimum respectively, of £lO and £5 in the close season. The award also grants a more generous scale of benefits. The clubs, before the union took the dispute to the Arbitration Court, had rejected the players’ wage demands. - They had offered maximums and minimums of £ll and £9 weekly respectively to the men in the playing and the close seasons.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1947, Page 9
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