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Railway Wages and the Salter Report The National Wages Board

enquiry into the railway companies' demand for a 10 per cent. cut in wages has ended in a virtual fiasco, no fewer than six separate reports being put in by different members of the Board. Everyone apparently came out of the protracted discus- sions with the same convictions with which he went into them, but the report of the independent chairman, Sir Harold Morris, who proposes a general cut of 41 per cent. (with the proviso that no wage shall be driven below 40s.) suddenly acquired outstanding importance on Monday, when the companies decided to accept it faute de Inieu.r. But the workers arc not likely to, and if the companies enforce the cuts a strike may result.

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