Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolini has organized what he terms Fascist 'unions,' which limit the membership to 10% of the employes of a district. These Fascist 'unions,' however, are given jurisdiction over all wage earners in their respective districts, but only members can take part and vote on matters of any kind. The decisions of these Fascist 'unions' bind all employes, and Mussolini dictates the policies of the Fascist 'unions...
Immigration. "While not enough time has elapsed to afford a conclusive demonstration, such results as have been secured indicate that our immigration law is on the whole beneficial. It is undoubtedly a protection to the wage earners of this country...
Commerce. Secretary Herbert C. Hoover called attention to "one of the most astonishing transformations in economic history," which he declared has taken place in the last five years-increase of wage levels accompanied by a decrease in commodity prices. He gave sta- tistics in index numbers based on pre-War conditions...
...YEAR WAGE LEVEL WHOLESALE PRICES...
...Baltimore than in any other U. S. city. Next come Richmond, Scranton, Cincinnati, New Orleans. Living costs are highest in Seattle, Detroit, Jacksonville, Cleveland. New York is about "the average." So said the National Industrial Conference Board in Manhattan last week, basing its estimates on actual expenditures of small wage-earners, deriving a hypothetical norm, applying this norm or average to U. S. cities. Thus...