'Tokyo, May With the index of prices continuing to soar, two of Japan's largest industrial' concerns yesterday. voluntarily Increased the wages of 128,000 of their: employees, ten per cent, wage rise was given to 90,000 of its workers in 76 mills in Japan, Korea, Manchuria and China by the Kanegatuchi Spinning Ca, a step which will cost the" concern ' additional ¥.1,800,000 a year. The Kanegafuchi Ca, 1s Japan's second largest cotton spinning arm, The Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ca, also announced wage increases of ten sen a day for its male emwivyees, and five sen a day for female workers, Benefted by this Increase will be 38,000 workers in the concern's eleven plants througti-
factory. in Nagoya, the dockyards in pending oe _peroplane Yokotiima, Kobe, Hiroshima - and 'Nagasaki, ' munitions works. and a 1 plant in Nagasald, and electric appliances plants in Nagoya, Kobe and Nagasald. 'The wage. increase will cost the' concern more than "¥.2,000,000 a year—Domel,
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