Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peaceful winter in the soft coal patches df Illinois was assured last September when the operators agreed to maintain the much-disputed Jacksonville wage scale ($7.50 per day) until April. But an unsettled spring, a dubious summer were provided for last week when, meeting in Chicago, the Illinois miners and operators wound up further negotiations unagreed...
...Casey's point was that the wage agreement, broken for economic reasons by the coal operators, was made at a conference sponsored by Secretaries Hoover and Davis-of-Labor, at Jacksonville...
Speculating on the future of militarism in general, he said significantly: "The Reichswehr is incapable of being used to wage war as this has been understood in the past. But how the art of waging war will develop in the future we do not know, so all we can do is keep our eyes open and watch war's further development...
Baltimore last week sent policemen to every family in the city to learn exactly how many wage earners, but not "tramps, beggars, gamblers, thieves," lacked employment. It is the first survey of its kind ever made by a U. S. municipality, according to Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner of labor statistics at Washington...
Federal Reserve Banks state in the February reports?Boston: "There was a further decline ... in the number of wage earners employed in identical manufacturing establishments in Massachusetts. The largest declines took place in the boot & shoe and the cotton goods industries, and were partly due to seasonal influences." Chicago: "Employment at industrial plants . . . showed an aggregate decline of 0.7%. . . . The comparatively small curtailment was the result of an upturn in the demand for iron & steel, which to a large extent counteracted the continued slowing-down in other industrial lines . . ."; San Francisco: In California, 781 firms employed 136,342 in December...