TRADES AND LABOUR.
LONDON. August 18.
A conference of Manchester cotton spinners and operatives established a. modus \ lvendi giving the operatives a 12 weeks' bonus of 5 per cent.
The notices as to a reduction in wages issued in Bolton were withdrawn. The whole question will be reviewed in 1906. August 19.
Sir M. Hickc-Beach, umpire of the Conciliation Board, has redxiced the Welsh colliers' wages to the sliding scale minimum ■.£?s||gkg t-o the fall in pjicc;^
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Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 24
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