Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month Baltimore sent policemen to every family in the city to learn exactly how many wage earners lacked employment (TIME, Feb. 20). Events justified their preoccupation. Last week the American Federation of Labor published its January table of unemployed union workers in 23 cities. Baltimore held first place with 42.5% unemployed. Of 23 cities Chicago was the only one where unemployment decreased. The table...
Commenting generally, Dr. Nitti said: "The wealthy class in America . . . approve of Fascismo because, in their opinion, it is a sort of strike breaker and wage reducer. . . . They do not look further...
...blame for the strike? Pennsylvania operators admit that they broke a wage agreement signed by them in 1924. They broke their word to escape bankruptcy, which faced them in the competition of non-union mines...
...Furthermore, when you speak of the Pennsylvania operators admitting that they broke a wage agreement signed by them in 1924, you include in that category the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, to whom you had just previously referred. . . . You will find that the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation carried out its Jacksonville agreement, employing all its miners at the Jacksonville wage scale, until the contract expired on April 1, 1927, though the keeping of this agreement entailed hundreds of thousands of dollars of loss upon that company. I am instructed by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation to say to you that, unless...
...girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge some advice. This was the advice: "I do not know whether you have daughters,* but I do know that if you had any, you would not want to see them working for $7.52 a week [the average wage for girls in Kresge stores, according to a report scrutinized by Senator Couzens].... I think you could do a lot more for girls by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they get into trouble...