Wages Collection

National coal strike - demands of miners 1912
National coal strike, to secure a minimum wage that lasted from February to early April 1912. This table shows how the wages differ per day in Great Britain and Ireland during 1910, of boys, youths

Welsh women road builders, South Wales
A group of twenty Welsh women road builders in Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, holding their spades. They built the road to Hook in 1903-4 to facilitate transport to the colliery

Copper Miners Strike - Calumet, Michigan, USA. Industrial action by Copper Miners of the Western Federation of Miners. Workers were concerned of being displaced to a lower-paying job or of losing

Official wording, Apprenticeship Indenture
Official wording of an Apprenticeship Indenture, between John Henry Watson of 3 Newland Street, Derby, and Messrs John Davis & Son (Derby) Limited

Striking Beauty Workers
Four women workers from The Beauty Shop, on strike for decent living wages and decent working hours. Date: early 1930s

Events / Africa / Libya
The U.S. wages war on Algerian pirates : Stephen Decaturs life is saved when Reuben James interposes his head between a pirate sword and his commander

NUPE and GMBATU school meals campaign, Croydon
NUPE and GMBATU representatives at a press conference to launch a Save our school meals campaign in the London Borough of Croydon, 29 June 1983. Date: 1983

Political poster, Free Trade versus Fair Trade -- a commentary on Joseph Chamberlain (seen here as the New Gardener) and the Tariff Reform League. circa 1906

Lancashire cotton mill workers wages in 1793

Harland & Wolff letter to Mrs A W Frost
RMS Titanic - letter to Mrs A W (Lizzie) Frost, widow of Anthony (Artie) Wood Frost, Harland & Wolff Guarantee Group Fitter, dated June 1912

Cartoon, A Pretty Penny in the Slot -- Baldwin asks John Bull for national investment in mines. Following the mine-owners reduction of their workers wages

African labourers lined up to receive their wages
African labourers on a farm or plantation lined up to receive their wages. Date: 1950s

Cartoon by Gillray, a poor man goes hungry - wages were low and food prices were high, thanks to foreign wars, corn duty and a bad harvest. 1790s

Coal Commission sit in Kings Robing Room - House of Lords
The Coal Commission sitting in the Kings Robing Room of the House of Lords, thrashing out the question of miners wages and hours. The Chairman, Mr Justice Sankey, is at the head of the curved table

Patriotic poster, Buy British - To provide your wages
To provide your wages some must Buy British - Set a good example yourself. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

War Pay Poster
Information poster encouraging soldiers to save some of their pay during WWI in the form of savings certificates, earning a high rate of interest and free of income tax

The Wages of Sin written by Andrew Sachs
The Wages of Sin or Perfidious Piecework written by Andrew Sachs actor and produced by the Tower Theatre Date: 1984

Coal strike of 1912
National coal strike of 1912. Workers went on strike from February to early April, to secure a minimum wage. 1912

The labourers in the vineyard - Matthew 20. circa 1688

Gentleman paying a tradesman or servant, c1800
Gentleman paying a tradesman or servant, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Womens Royal Air Force -- Pay Parade
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women queueing up to receive their pay from male officers. Date: 1919-1920

The strike of Creusot of 1870. Meeting of factory workers in the pay moment. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Paybook of HMS Victory, recording the death of Lord Viscount Horatio Nelson 21st October 1805 Date: 21st October 1805

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton pickers child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds

Female surface workers queueing, South Wales
A line of female surface workers queueing up at a mine in South Wales, probably for their wages

Production and Plunder, campaigning statistics
A slide entitled Production & Plunder, used for a lecture about the South Wales Miners Federation. Statistics are listed, comparing the royalties on the use of coal on the luxury steamer

Workhouse Teachers Salary Receipt, Whitehaven
A receipt for the quarterly salary payment of twelve pounds and ten shillings. It is from the Whitehaven Union, signed by workhouse teacher William Benson on 24 December 1856

The riots in the cotton districts
A page from the May 1878 Illustrated London News, detailing the cotton riots in Lancashire, which were the response to a proprosed 10% reduction in workers wages

Selection of Titanic paperwork
A selection of paperwork from the ill-fated SS Titanic: 1. Account of Wages for James Witter, Steward. 2. A letter written on board the RMS Laconia from a survivor, Mary Hewlett, dated 30 May 1912

The Coal Problem, Great Britain, 1920
Illustration showing a number of facts regarding the coal industry of Great Britain in 1920. These diagrams showed that miners wages were increasing, but coal production was diminishing

A Devonshire lace-maker
Lace-making was a typical cottage industry and could be carried out independently by women in their homes. The woman in the picture sits by the hearth in a cottage with a bolster-style pillow firmly

Transport / By Horse / Stage
Coaches were generally made of tough ash wood, with mahogany panels and leather upper parts; the finest made coaches commanded the best wages

Sulla Wages Civil War
Sulla wages civil war against Marius, captures Rome and threatens to destroy it

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