laulage Workers' Long Hours
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TAT1STICS published in the Ministry of Labour Gazette show. how average ;ekly earnings, hours worked and hourly rnings of men aged 21 and over have ried between October, 1948, and .tober, 1959.
They show that for goods transport by ad (except British Road Services) the erne weekly earnings rose from 15s. 4d. in 1948 to £13 5s. 5d, in 1959 an increase of 96.1 per cent. This was thin 0.2 per cent, of the average for I the industries covered by the inquiry. But to achieve this level of earnings c average number of hours worked rose am 51.4 to 55.4 a week, an increase of per cent. This was exactly twice as uch as the average for all the industries. Average hourly earnings increased from 7.6d. to 4s. 9.5d.----an increase of 82 per nt., which is 7.3 per cent, less than for dustry as a whole. With the exception the cement industry, the hours worked road haulage were the longest of all e 132 industries listed in the inquiry.