ENGLISH RAILWAYS.
REDUCTION IN WAGES. •DECISION TO ENFORCE. United Tress Assn.—Elen. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 19. The Daily Mail states that owing to the disastrous fall in receipts the English Railway Companies have decided to enforce, within a week, the two reductions in wages proposed by Sir Harold Morris in January. Formal notice of this decision is to he issued to the unions in a few days.
The English railway companies created a surprise on January 17 by accepting the recommendations of the chairman of the National Wages Board of (lie Railways, Sir Harold Morris, in favour of wages reductions only to the extent of one-llftli of the companies’ demand. The companies said these recommendations fell far short of the merits of Ihe ease. They involve a decrease in all wages of 4 i-G per cent, with a further similar reduction when the pay exceeds s(>s a week.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18876, 21 February 1933, Page 5
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