The upward tendency of the English workingman’s wages has been very marked. According to the official board-of-trade reports, the increases granted during the month reached a total of nearly $365,000. The number of workpeople who shared the increases was 440,000.
Increased wages in some of the leading branches of industry are summed up briefly as follows:
Railwaymen—All-around increase of seventy-five cents a week.
Longshoremen—Increases varying from twenty-five cents to two dollars a week.
Policemen—War bonus of seventy-five cents a week upward.
Carpenters—War bonus of one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents a week.
General Laborers—Increase of seventy-five cents to one dollar and fifty cents a week.
Miners—Employers generally offer ten per-cent advance in pay; miners demand twenty per cent.
Postal Employees, Including Telephone and Telegraph Workers—Increase of one dollar a week has been demanded.
Gas Workers—Increases averaging one dollar a week.