Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peck's committee analyzed the employment records of 187,390 U. S. manufacturing plants, employing 8,383,261 wage earners. Building, mining and transportation industries were ignored. Their millions of workers are almost entirely unionized, and their inclusion in the National Association of Manufacturers' statistics would distort the open shop picture. _ Nonetheless, Mr. Peck's findings were significant. In the industries investigated only 13.7% of the plants employed only union help, and these people comprised only 7.4% of those employed in all the especially picked factories. Non-union factories numbered 11.%, their employes 11.3% There remained...
Brotherhood, which was encouraged though not adopted by the American Federation of Labor. They said that the Pullman work-wage scale which they protested was: $72.50, plus $58 in tips, minus $33 expenses (shoeblacking, meals, uniforms), for a 400-hr. month. The scale the Brotherhood proposed was $150 for a 240-hour month. The porters also objected to "doubling out" assignments, where porters who have just finished a trip are ordered out on another trip before they have had time to refresh themselves with sleep, baths, visits home...
Answering the porters' protest, the Pullman Co. stated that $72.50 was the wage paid newly employed men. Oldtimers' wages are as high as $104 a month. In the company's judgment, tips run from $75 per month up. The company believed $33 a high figure for "on the road" expenses. It pointed out that one-third of the porters receive two free uniforms per annum...
...porters tried last year to get action by the Interstate Commerce Commission. But the I. C. C. declined to interfere, having no authority to intervene in a wage controversy. The strike order, issued last week, was calculated to obtain action from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is empowered to decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired...
...imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting a stray commission. But there he was, and there the Guiana vulture, bird of ill omen, flapped...