Wage increases based on implementation of changed Award wages.

Relief workers were granted award wages.

Mr. Bloomberg has said he will not award wage increases to more than 250,000 city workers unless the unions agree to productivity gains to finance the raises.

S.B. Irwin later became editor of the Warwick Daily News but resigned in 1926 after he was unable to get his brother's support for paying award wages as the editor.

NUR and ASLEF responded jointly and forced the Board of Trade to award wage increases in September 1916 and April 1917.

The company was not noted for employee relations: in the early days they made extensive use of juniors 14-16 years of age as machine operators and menial labour to avoid paying award wages (hence its local nickname "The Boy Farm").