COMBINERS' WAGES.
INCREASES IN WARTIME, FROM 8/10 to 17/- A DAY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 6.40 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 12. Mr. George Gibson, president of the South Wales Coalowuers' Association, gave evidence before the Coal Commission that miners' average wages throughout the United Kingdom in 1914 were 8s lOd. In November, 1918, the average was 17s a day. Mr. Gibson's evidence referred to the wages of pieceworkers. Day workers earned 7s a day in 1914 and 13s 5d in 1918. The railways executive offered railwaymen 20 per cent, above the pre-war rate as a standard wage. The railwaymen demand that the full wartime rate shall be the permanent wage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17109, 14 March 1919, Page 5
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