LABOUR AT HOME
REDUCTION OF WAGES. RESISTED BY TRADES UNIONS. f ' Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy right. LONDON, January 15. The General Council of the Trade Union Congress has issued a manifesto to unions throughout the country proposing to create national machinery to enable too whale force of the trade union movement to combat attempts to reduce wages and increase hours/ It is incidentally suggested that the’ council should be empowered to make a national levy to support individual unions which may be attacked. —Reuter. ABERDEEN GRANITE WORKERS, / LONDON, January 15. The Aberdeen granite merchants are notifying a reduction in wages owing to the slackness of trade. They state that English cities arc importing tombstones and war memorials made in .Germany from Scandinavian granite.—A. and N.Z.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18455, 17 January 1922, Page 5
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