HIGHER WAGES IN BRITAIN
OVER 11,000,000 PEOPLE WORKING (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, October 18. The Ministry of Labour estimated the number of insured people in employment at the end of September provisionally at 10,966,000, pending the next periodical verification of the figures. This inquiry has now been concluded, and it has become clear that the total is in fact well over 11,000,000. Changes in wages reported to the Minister of Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) in the first nine months of this year are estimated to have resulted in a net increase of about £366,000 a week in the full-time rates of wages of 3,286,000 workers. Assuming regular full-time employment, the changes represent additions to wages amounting to £19.000,000 a year. The cost of living index compiled by the Ministry of Labour on October 1 was approximately 48 per cent, above the level of July 1914, compared with 47 per cent, a month ago and 45 per cent, a year ago.
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Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 7
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