Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strongest of all unions are the "Big Four" Brotherhoods-Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen-with 17 smaller rail groups. Their membership blankets the U. S. and Canada. First move to reduce the Brotherhood pay scale came last month in Canada where Canadian National and Canadian Pacific began negotiating directly with their employes for a voluntary wage cut. Last week the poll of C. N. and C. P. workers still remained untabulated. Upon its result largely depended the attitude of Brotherhood men in the U. S. toward pay cuts...
Corruption in the government of New York City is widespread. This corruption could not exist on so large a scale if the sinister forces who are profiting by it were not afforded protection. Their identity must be established...
Similar plans have been tried in other colleges with extraordinary success. For instance, at Middlebury where the idea has been carried out on a larger scale, there is a whole dormitory where nothing but French is spoken. Vassar, Mount Holyoke, and several of the experimental colleges of the south and west have found like projects valuable...
...Boonton, Dover and Paterson (N. J.), Hampden (Mass.) and Philadelphia, members of the well-organized American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, A. F. of L. affiliate, struck, but their leaders agreed to accept 35% to 40% reductions in wages in return for a guarantee of the 1929 scale...
Philadelphia. Bank failures began in the U. S. on a big scale in the fall of 1930, in agricultural sections which had suffered from low commodity prices and drought. Then came the dramatic and shocking collapse of Bank of United States in New York City (TIME, Dec. 22), tying up some $160,000,000. Warning had come in November with the collapse of Caldwell & Co., followed by a string of banks in Tennessee and Kentucky. Failures became more common, whole areas were affected. In August every large bank but one was closed in Toledo and wholesale failures followed throughout Ohio...