# Wage Cuts

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/wage-cuts/
- Published: 1924-06-26T19:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T01:47:52+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/urezyvannie-zarobkau.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/urezyvanie-zarabotkov.md

> The manufacturers of Upper Silesia have reduced the pay of miners and ironworks workers, threatening to close their plants. The workers were forced to agree.

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In Upper Silesia the manufacturers have cut the pay of mine workers by 11 percent, and of workers in the iron foundries by 17 percent. The workers were forced to accept this, because the manufacturers threatened that otherwise they would close down their factories and throw all the workers out onto the street.