The Archive · 1924

Building Trade Wages

Employers' New Terms: An Immediate Increase and Stabilization Later London, May 15.

The building trade operatives' executives have decided to submit ballot embodying the new terms by the employers with a recommendation for their acceptance. The offer of the employers is an immediate increase of a halfpenny per hour until the statutory revision next January, when the employers are willing to stabilize wages at, 20 pence per hour for Grade "A" towns, with subsequent reductions of a halfpenny: per hour for every fieop of iL points in the Cost Living. Index figure—Reuter.

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