Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hyresregleringslagens: refers to a Swedish rent-regulating...
...miners would give up their demands for the check-off (whereby the operators would collect dues, assessments and fines for the union out of miners' wages) provided the operators would stop their practice of checking off from miners' wages debts contracted by miners to the companies for rent, fuel, etc. The operators agreed to this proposal, saying that their stores would be put upon a cash basis...
...assumed that in waiving the check-off demand the miners had waived these conditions, too. President Lewis of the miners said that when he waived the checkoff, he waived the checkoff, and nothing else. He further made it plain that when he asked the operators to stop checking off rent and supplies, from the miners' wages he did not mean putting such business on a cash basis -he meant that the miners should receive just as much credit as before, but that the operators should find other means of collecting their bills. The operators saw nothing constructive in these...
...book-keeping"-the checkoff, by which operators would automatically collect dues for the union out of workers' pay. But the check-off really looms large to the union and operators. The argument of the United Mine Workers is that already the operators deduct money for store bills, rent and tools from the workers' wages. Why should they object to adding one dollar a month dues (also union fines) to their deductions'? The real motives of each side are clear. For the union, the check-off means easy and certain collection of dues and probably an absolutely complete...
...sign of the times, it is reported that seashore cottages do not rent quite so readily this summer as last, and reckless spending is in little evidence save among bricklayers, carpenters, etc. Money is easy, though rates are firm...