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...silk strikers demanded: eight-hour day, five-day week, 40% wage increase. They complained that they were now worked 9½ to 14 hrs. per day for a wage that began at $12 per week. Most of the operators of Paterson's silk mills, large & small, almost welcomed the strike as an excuse to shut down their plants...
...great encyclical entitled Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"). Firmly rejecting the new Socialism and its "community of goods" as "directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind," he enunciated a platform which he was later to expand so as to put Mother Church on record for trades unionism, the eight-hour day, minimum wage laws, old age pensions and much else that was "radical" then, commonplace...
...great companies ushered in the flying season last week with important new schedules. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. swung from its transcontinental line at Columbus up to Chicago, making an eight-hour service between New York and Chicago to compete with National Air Transport (which flies via Cleveland). The Chicago-Columbus route was operated by Continental Airways, until that company went out of business last month. T. & W. A. swiftly grabbed up the strategic opening. (Errett Lobban Cord's new Century Airlines, radiating out of Chicago, was said to have turned a covetous eye upon the Columbus route.) The other...
...Such as: Railroad Signalmen, Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers & Helpers, Railway Carmen, Firemen & Oilers, Train Despatches, Clerks & Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes. †The eight-hour work day was set by the Adamson Law (1916) under threat of a national rail strike...
...Kellogg school (Ann Jeanette Kellogg was his mother). Early in October before President Hoover roused the country for unemployment help, he put his Battle Creek factory on a five-day-a-week basis to employ 300 more men. The factory has been running 24 hours a day, in three eight-hour shifts, for 2,500 employes. Last fortnight he altered his factory schedule again. To hire still more men, he now runs four six-hour shifts daily. He also increased wages to give every employee at least $4 a workday...