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...their $25 Frances Willard nurses worked 10 hr. a day. So do most U. S. hospital nurses. Last week in Washington some 4,000 convening members of the American Nurses Association voted approval of "an eight-hour day as the regular working day for nurses." Prospects looked bright for this means of easing nurses' lives, spreading work among some 75,000 of them who are unemployed. Year ago only 19 U. S. hospitals had an eight-hour day for nurses (TIME, May 22). By last week more than 350 hospitals had adopted...
...morning before he lumber code was finished General Johnson got the steel men into a room, kept them there for twelve hours with only a brief intermission for dinner-virtually whipped them into agreement. They came out late at night, glum, shaking their heads grievously. He had beaten down their demand for continuance of open shop.* The code provided a maximum 40-hr. week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks); a minimum 40? an hour wage; an eight-hour day effective after Nov. 1 if the industry is operating at 60% or more of capacity; three representatives...
...Pittsburgh plus" system. Simultaneously eleven steel companies headed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Republic and Carnegie announced a 15% wage increase at once for about 100,000 workers. Soft Coal. This code represented only the unionized one-quarter of the bituminous industry, promised much controversy. Provided was an eight-hour day and an average 36-hour week for the year. Minimum pay: $5 per day for underground workers; $4 per day for outside men. Employes did not have to live in company houses or trade at company stores. Lumber. Work & wages ranged from 48 hours at $10.80 for cypress and pine...
...smaller powers are not going to London just for the ride. At the beginning of the Conference each will be allowed to make a 15-min. opening address which will embody the principal demands of each country. Running them off with clocklike regularity this would take up four eight-hour days (each address is immediately followed by translation). Veterans of other international assemblies suspect that the opening addresses will occupy at least a fortnight, with the world Press paying little attention. Meanwhile one man has taught the minor powers how to make their voices felt: Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister...
Primary urge for the eight-hour nursing shift is the inestimable desperate need for spreading employment among nurses...