BRITISH MINERS
PROBABLE DROP IN WAGES {By Electric Telegraph—nOopyrigbt.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, March 19. The Miners' Conference recommended obtaining the opinion of the respective districts on the question whether they will temporarily abandon the national wages board and national pool, and empower I?ie -executive to negotiate for an agreement on a district basis to meet the present abnormal state of t-ade: also to secure prices applicable i.-lic-f trade is more normal. It is umhjrstood if the recommendations are accepted if will mean a. weekly drop in wages of 42s in Cumberland, 31s in South Wales, 20s 6d in Scotland, .7s in Lancashire, and 6s 9d in Durham and Northumberland. Mr. Frank Hodges, secretary of the Miners' Federation, addressing a- r-afs meeting at Abertillert, Monmoutbsnue, said that if thp war wages came to an end on 31st March, colliers who Aire out of work should receive not only £l. r, week unemployment pay, but another pound from colliers who were working. South "Wales miners who, in 1920. had expensive motor char-a-banc holidays at the seaside, are now socking relieving officers' assistance..
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 21 March 1921, Page 5
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