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London, Feb. 10.
Wdditions of from 18 pence to four skillings a week for more than 500,000] railway workers are announced.
These additions are to be retrospec~ tive from January 1, and will absorb the cost of living additions. payable from that date.
The increases are the result of claims for an all-round advance of ten shillings a week, and have been accepted by the representatives of three trade unions.
The General Secretary of the! National Union of Railwaymen says that a8 the rates are applicable to overtime and so on in many sections, will mean an extra five or six shillings a week for adult males—Reuter.
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