Word: payed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shiny new mills of the Bemberg and Glanztoff artificial silk companies. He was presented with a sample suit of underwear. Shrewd Germans had invested $10,000,000 in these mills to escape the U. S. tariff. But Germans are hard taskmasters. Mill operatives worked 56 hours per week; their pay envelopes held from $8.90 to $14; overtime brought no extra money. Spurred on by the American Federation of Labor, the Elizabethton workers struck last month. The strike was settled, with the company promising pay adjustments, but 300 union members were discharged...
South Carolina. Operatives first walked out of the Brandon Mills at Greenville. Others at Spartanburg, Union and Anderson followed. Complaint was against the "stretch-out" system whereby workers were given increased work without proportionately more pay. A committee of the South Carolina Legislature, headed by Representative Dowell E. Patterson, who is also president of the State Federation of Labor, investigated these strikes and reported : "The whole trouble has been brought about by putting more work on the employes than they can do. . . . In the 'stretch-out' system it is the employe who does the stretching out. . . . The strike...
Pleasantly but insistently last week Chairman Owen D. Young of the second Dawes Committee at Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) circulated a memorandum of his own drafting among the delegates of the Great Powers who have met to decide how much Germany must finally pay in reparations...
Hitherto it had proved impossible to gain general acceptance of any definite figure in respect to any of the huge sums involved. But the Young Memorandum, secret, was understood to lay down as fixed beyond all need of further dickering this principle: Germany will pay the Allies not less than the total they owe the United States in War debts-namely...
...performed a major feat. So sanguine seemed the delegates of results to follow that they determined to meet hereafter on Sundays as well as week days in an effort to fix as soon as possible how much more than minimum the Fatherland must pay. This surplus above the Allied needs for repayment to the U. S. is supposed to partially cover the cost of repairing War damage done by German forces by land, sea, and air. Reputedly, the Young Memorandum contains a tentative statement of what might be considered the just "reconstruction claims" of each of the Allied Powers...