Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it seems certain that there will be no increase in dining-hall rates during the remainder of the year, it was learned last night that the University is preparing to raise the price of meals next fall because of labor expenses...
Even this drastic expedient, however, will not save the system if further concessions are made to labor, and these seem inevitable. Moreover the University is committed to continue T. S. E. P. for at least another year. For this reason the University is negotiating for raises to take effect in September, thereby relieving this year's budget of unexpected burden and allowing time to consider and fix a new meal rate...
Reluctantly giving in to the pleas of their organizers and of James Moriarty, State Commissioner of Labor, 300 cooks and waitresses last night voted to report for duty as usual this morning. In view of gains made in yesterday's negotiations, they extended the deadline for a "satisfactory contract" from midnight last night to noon Wednesday...
...YORK-The Roosevelt Administration and rank-and-file unionists tonight exerted new pressure upon seven American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations peace-negotiators for an early settlement of their three-year...
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins cited growing sentiment of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. members for peace and declared that she hoped the "employers, workers, their unions and officials, now that peace negotiations are going on, will do everything they can in a constructive way to advance the chances for successful negotiation of the differences between...