Word: charwomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, rejected a demand of government charwomen for a pay increase of threepence, three farthings (6.2?) an hour. He offered them one farthing (four-tenths of 1?) instead. One, angrier than the rest, sat down, composed a Christmas card, read it to a meeting of 1,000 sister chars. The greeting...
...From the charwomen to the foreign correspondents, everybody who works for the London Daily Telegraph got a jubilant mimeographed note from the boss, and an extra week's pay. Viscount Camrose had reason to celebrate: the sickly (circ. 80,000) daily he had bought into in 1928 had reached a healthy 1,001,047. A front-page box proclaimed: "This is the first time in the newspaper history of the world that any quality newspaper has achieved a million sale...
...rebellion of New York's charwomen showed that a once-indispensable utensil was not outmoded. No longer, they declared, would they clean cuspidors...
...Manhattan's Wall Street only a few late workers heard the rising thunder of engines and looked up. There was only a moment-a quick glimpse of scattered squares of light where charwomen worked while the low clouds swirled about the towers. Then the crash...
...states, teachers' pay averages less than that of charwomen...