Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing that the cotton executives before him are embroiled in a wage dispute with 400,000 Lancashire mill employes, the Prime Minister concluded warmly: "The record of partnenship in the cotton trade between capital and labor is a very great one. You have stood together. The men who work for you today are the grandsons of the men who tightened their belts and helped to carry Lancashire through the days of the Civil War in America. Think two or three times before you sacrifice a position like that...
...method of forcing a balance between the manufacturing costs and selling costs of fabrics which New Bedford and neighboring Taunton, Mass., textile makers adopted last week was to reduce wages. The New Bedford Silk Mills cut pay by 25%, and at once 140 employes walked out. Twenty-seven cotton mills announced 10% pay cuts for the beginning of this past week and 2,571 mill hands immediately voted to go on strike. The three local newspapers are condemning both wage reductions and strike...
...Rise of the Wage Earning Class," Professor Usher, Widener...
...Rise of the Wage Earning Class," Professor Usher, Widener...
Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...