British Potteries Grant Wages Rise and Paid Holiday
STOKE-ON-TRENT. Some 80,000 pottery operatives are to receive a geu era! advance on their present earning: equivalent to 5 per cent., and, for the first time in the history of the industry,, a week’s holiday with pay. This settlement of a wages dispute was endorsed recently at meetings heli! simultaneously by the British Pottery Manufacturers’ Federation and the National Society of Pottery Workers. Holiday payments are to vary from 10s 6d in the case of girls under 16 to t maximum of £3 for male workers am: 30s for women workers at 24 years ol age and over. All sections of the industry are con corned in the general advance. It ha: been agreed that the new rates shall b< stabilized for two years. “Is your brother about again after hii accident?” “No, and won’t be for some time.” “Why? I thought he had only mino; injuries.” *‘Ay, he did have, but compensation! have set in.”<
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 93, 21 April 1939, Page 11
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