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...Government is doing everything the wrong way," the major went on. "The secret of it is we have got to work. The coal miners have bloody well to be made to work-all this nonsense about an eight-hour day. Churchill would not coddle the miners like that...
...Arithmetic of Peace. No one was sure just what price Lewis had exacted in terms of hourly wage increases for his miners. The United Mine Workers said 35?; the operators said closer to 45?. The arithmetic was complicated by changing the $11.85 nine-hour day to a $13.05 eight-hour day (including an hour to travel from the mine portal to the face of the working and back, and a new half-hour lunch period). The arithmetic was further complicated by doubling the royalty paid into the miners' health & welfare fund to 110? a ton (between...
...Threat. Would they be back at the end of the vacation, on July 8? At week's end, Lewis met with U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal's George Humphrey. Reportedly Fairless and Humphrey had offered wage increases up to $13.05 for an eight-hour day. It worked out to around a 35?-an-hour wage boost, more than twice the 1947 pattern. But there was no assurance that Lewis would accept...
When May Day dawned last week, the common man-by the millions-was on the march again, but not so starry-eyed. Labor had stolen its holiday from the Virgin and primitive goddesses of fertility to celebrate the dream of the eight-hour day. Now in turn Communism had stolen the holiday from the working man, and it had gone sour...
...because of varying local conditions, the court left it to the lower courts to determine what payments were due in each individual case for portal-to-portal work. What ran up the liability of companies was the fact that 1) portal-to-portal time was added to the eight-hour working day, and so called for time-and-a-half pay and 2) employes could sue for double wages under the Wages & Hours Act. In short, companies found themselves faced with paying triple damages...