HIGHER WAGES FOR MORE THAN MILLION

Last Month's Labour Earnings
Wages are rising.
According to returns published by the Ministry of Labour, over a million persons received more money as their weekly fulltime wages last month. This estimated cash increase is reckoned to be £60,000.
Decrease of wages affected 44,000 workpeople, to the cash extent of £3,800. The principal increase affected adult male workers in the engineering industry, whose wages were raised by Is. per week. Of other increases the more important affected gas workers, railway shopmen, employees of municipal tramway and 'bus undertakings, and pottery workers.
The principal decreases affected coalminers in Cannock Chase, North Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire.
The changes so far reported in the seven completed months of 1936 have resulted in a net increase of about £332,000 per week in the full-time rates of wages of nearly 2,800,000 workpeople, and in a net decrease of £.1,700 in those of 22,000 workpeople.