THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 13, 1937,
£25,000,000 MORE IN WAGES
NEW BRITISH
RECORDS
SUPPLY OF
Last year, 3,000,000 workers in Bri- SKILLED
tain received £25,000,000* more ̈ ́in
wages than in the previous year. ENGINEERS
In addition, more people found em-
In December the Home branch mem- ployment, the average number of. in- sured workers during the year rising bership of the Amalgamated Engin- 519,000 to the record-level of 10,896,000. eering Union increased from 247,062 These figures are given in the "Min-to 248,209 and the Colonial branch istry of Labour Gazette." The upward membership from 27,230 to 27,235, The tendency in the general level of wage number of members in receipt of sick rates, it is stated, which began in 1934 benefit increased from 3,166 to 3,407 and continued during the following and the number in receipt of superan- year, became much more marked innuation benefit decreased from 13,987 1936.
to 13,961.. The number of members in donation benefit increased receipt of
;
Three Per Cent. Increase
In those industries for which detail-from 2,057 to 2,164, and the total num- from of ber of unemployed members ed statistics of changes in rates wages are regularly compiled, the 7,435 to 7,501. changes, reported during that year re-
The writer of the editorial notes în sulted in an aggregate net increase of the January issue of the Amalgamated about £487,000 in the weekly full-time Engineering Union's Journal says that rates of wages of more than 4,000,000 in view of the Ministry of Labour's work-people.
This was the largest number of per sons affected by increases since 1920, and the highest weekly advance in wages since 1924.
unemployment returns for the various areas, it is "somewhat puzzling to find the First Lord of the Admiralty dwell- ing upon the shortage of skilled la bour as he did in addressing the Na- "Only 425 work-people were report- tional Union of Manufacturers. ed as having sustained net reductions
Skilled Labour Shortage
of "Speaking
the defence in wage-rates during the year," it is
pro added. "In all the industries-includ÷gramme, the Journal's contributor for which informa- says, "Sir Samuel Hoare remarked, that ing agriculture tion is available, the average level of there were several difficult problems to weekly full-time rates. of wages is es-solve. One was the fact that many timated to have risen during 1936 by industries had lost their skilled labour in the bad time. Whose fault is that? about three per cent."
Certainly, the responsibility does not Over and over: lie with the unions.
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The number of trade disputes begun gineering should take into considera- in 1936 in Great Britain and Northern tion is concerned, the writer goes on t Ireland was 808, the highest recorded say, with training and recruitment. Hon. since 1920. The majority of last. "We do not want to see," he says, "the Chun, year's disputes, however, were of short engineering industry, or Ministers and long duration, and the aggregate time lost Government departments
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Authorised Capital $10,000,000 persons; what is the position with res- pect to training and apprenticeship; is
LONDON BANKERS:- the future labour supply of the indus- Westminster Bank, Ltd. try sufficiently provided for, and so on. Foreign Exchange and every des- "With such information at its dis-cription of banking business transact- Posal, in regard to the engineering ed trades, the Government should be able Current Accounts and Savings Ac- to lay down a policy that the workers' counts opened. Mixed Deposits. re- and employers' organisations can pro-ceived at rates which will be quoted fitably discuss with a view to meeting on application.
The Directors have added $12,000 such difficulties as beset the industry. Trusteeship- & Executorship under- to the Officers' Pension Fund, writ- claim that neither the curriculum of
The Journal's contributor goes on to taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. ten £20,000 off: Freehold Banking Government training centres nor the Premises, (and made an additional period of training given-can produce
allocation of £25,000, to. Contin- skilled engineers. "The studious flood- ing of the industry,” he says, "with gencies Account. They recommend cheap, unskilled labour, must of neces a Final Dividend on the “A," "B" and "C" Shares of 6 per cent., less Income Tax (making 12 p
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·COPPER SHORTAGE SOON OVERCOME
sity be met with serious opposition by those who have invested their working life in the industry and have the future. to safeguard.... Ordered apprenticeship training and the regulation thereof are essential to the future welfare of the industry. The conception of many em- ployers that an apprentice is sacrosanct must be dispelled if the lad is to pe ceive the ready assistance and guid- ance from the men in the workshop to contribute to his training and future Sir Auckland Geddes, chairman of well-being Regulation and control of the Rio Tinto Co., which owns the big apprentices must not alone be the func- Spanish copper mines, expressed the tion of the employer."Engineering. view that the present shortage of cop- per would soon be overcome.
ponsible for the production of copper. Speaking at the annual dinner of the for which I can speak more than any Institute of Metals, held at the Troca other metal-that it should run away dero. Restaurant, he said that at pre-fin price as it has been doing recently sent the metal Industries were: hard put to meet the demanda.
"For a little while it is not possible to bring forward the vast quantities of metal required to keep the market
"I can assure you,” he added, "that it is no part of the policy of those, res- steady but it is coming."
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