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BRITISH RAILWAYS
REDUCING WAGES BILL
ADDITIONAL PRUNING
LONDON, November 17.
The railway companies purpose, in ad
dition to the cuts announced last week,
that workshops' piece-workers should be
reduced 6s 6d and time-workers 4s 6d a
week.
It is estimated the total reductions
will save £11.000,000, or, roughly, 10 per
cent, of the wages bill.
' (Last week the companies proposed an
immediate reduction of 6s in adult male I
wages and 3s a week in those of females
and junior males. In the case of the
salaried staff it is proposed that those
earning £180 to £250 annually shall un
dergo a reduction of £20, and those be
tween £80 and £170 a reduction of £10.
Payment will only be made on time ac
tually worked. Standard hours will in
clude Sunday, and excess will be paid at
the rate of time and a quarter. The
companies cite the competition of other
forms of transport and the high opera
tive costs. The wages totals were £47,
000,000 in 1913 and £115,000,000 in 1929.
The traffic receipts in 1930 were pro
babaly £10,500,000 below those of 1929.
The railway unions arc preparing
counter-prooosals.)
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