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McCloskey figured on finishing his black & white design in a couple of eight-hour days, for Post Office Department approval. If all went well, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson would scratch his name under the design and send it back to the Bureau for engraving. Later, he would decide on the stamp's color...
...York supreme court justice upheld a city labor arbitration award giving bricklayers a wage of $27 for an eight-hour...
...employees stood under the new Labor Standards Act. So far his only word of encouragement has come from Temple Warehouse Keeper Shigeru Shinohara, head of the union of which 252 temple workers (including all 22 priests) are members. "We want regular wages," Shigeru said, "but no regular eight-hour working days. Sometimes a whole delegation of believers shows up late at night, and we are quite agreeable to working odd hours. Our union intends to inform the Labor Ministry that we wish to maintain our union just for economic purposes...
...their winnings mounted, the crowd of tourists, gamblers, divorce-seekers and hangers-on increased. So did the Hibbs-Walford bets, until $11 was riding on each spin. Their longest losing streak: 266 spins. Their luckiest run: four wins out of five spins. Hibbs & Walford spelled each other in eight-hour shifts. After 40 hours, when Hibbs & Walford had parlayed their $120 into $6,000, the management changed the wheel heads...
...underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...