London, Apr. 20.
'A survey by the Ministry of Labour ssued (aday shows that durmyg 1937 there was a marked rise in the general level of wage rates.
The number of workers whose wages were increased, and the total mount of the increase were greater than in any year since 1920.
"There was an aggregate net me crease estimated at £784 In the weekly' full-time rates of 5,161,000 workers, Tu all Industries, including agriculture, the average level is estimated (0 have risen by over four per cent—Wireless throuch Reuter.
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