STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS. No. 77.-NUMBER of DISPUTES REPORTED as involving STOPPAGES WORKPEOPLE INVOLVED, and aggregate DURATION in (Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour NOTE. In this and the following Table disputes involving less than ten work people, and those which lasted less than one day, have been omitted, except when the aggregate duration exceeded 100 working days. STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS. of WORK in GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND, NUMBER of WORKING DAYS, CLASSIFIED by GROUPS of INDUSTRIES. Statistics and the Ministry of Labour Gazette.) (a) The general strike, which involved about 1,580,000 work people and had aggregate duration of about 15,000,000 working days, has been included in the totals but not in the figures for the separate groups of industries. STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS. No. 78.-DURATION and MAGNITUDE (a) of STRIKES and LOCK-OUTS in GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND. (Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics TOTAL NUMBERS OF WORKPEOPLE INVOLVED BY DURATION IN WEEKS. NOTE.-See Notes to Table No. 77, pp. 90-91. (a) The figures in this table relate exclusively to strikes and lock-outs beginning in the years shown, and the figures as to aggregate duration relate to the total loss in working days of such disputes, including the days lost in subsequent years in cases where the strike or lock-out extended over more than one calendar year. The figures of aggregate duration shown differ, therefore, from those in Table No. 77, pp. 90-1, which gives the aggregate duration, within each year, of all strikes and lock-outs in progress in that year, whether beginning in that or an earlier year. COST OF LIVING. No. 79.—INDEX NUMBERS of RETAIL PRICES of FOOD only and of ALL ITEMS (COST OF LIVING) in each MONTH from 1915 to 1926. (July, 1914=100.) (Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics The figures below are representative of all items, viz., food, rent, clothing, fuel and light, &c. |