Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wage increases already granted to 50,000 woolen mill operatives in New England were followed by advances of 12½% to some 25,000 cotton mill workers. These advances marked the first action by the cotton manufacturing interests to meet the higher wage levels set by the woolen mills throughout all the northern textile centers. When the general advance in wages in New England is completed it will affect about 250,000 workers...
Labor leaders are of the opinion that the wage increase was promulgated at this time in order to forestall the textile strike which has been brewing in the New England mill towns for several months...
...short collection of biographies and autobiographies in the Farnsworth Room at the Library furnishes a most convenient foundation for the study of politics in its broader aspects. Its usefulness should be more widely appreciated, especially since under our tutorial system all such material is grist for the student's mill...
...futures. With the exception of the 43-cent high record of 1920, this is the highest price for cotton since 1876, but producers having sold practically all their holdings, it is principally the factors who will profit by these recent high prices. While the latter have been occasioned by mill purchases, it is the boll weevil rather than " inflation " which is fundamentally responsible...
...clock--"John Stuart Mill", by Professor A. E. Monroe, Harvard 6. (Economics...