HIGH WAGES: £30 FOR STEELWORKERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 14 May 1920, Page 5

HIGH WAGES: £30 FOR STEELWORKERS.

| LONDON, April 24. j The Weekly Dispatch publishes a remarkable list of earnings of unionists in Wales, where a general demand "for further increases has been made. The most eapab]e steelworkers earn from £27 to £30 a week; others make from £18 to £20; tinplaters earn from £10 to £14 a week, coal-trimmers £18, boatmen £12 to £15, and unskilled laborers from £5 to £6. The steeli workers demand an additional 40 per ! cent, and tinplaters 75 per cent inI creases. j A ballot of Lancashire spinners and card-room workers overwhelmingly favors a strike to support the claims for a 60 per cent increase in wages. The employers are attempting to arI range a compromise. The Government told both sides that a strike affecting the leading exporting industry would be a national disaster.