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AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. BELOW PRE-WAR STANDARD. WAGES ADJUDICATION. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The House of Commons read a second time by 24." to .14 votes the Government's Agricultural Wages Bill, providing for the appointment of a Country Agricultural Wages Committee empowered to fix wages and hours, each side being equally represented, with an independent chairman, and failing a decision the Central Board will decide.
The Minister, Mr Nool Buxton, movingly described the poverty-stricken conditions of agricultural workers and their families. He declared that the present standard of wages was lower than before the war.—Router.
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Northern Advocate, 4 June 1924, Page 5
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