Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge received a letter from John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, charging that bituminous mine operators were breaking their wage contract with the union, and asking what the Government is going to do about it. Shortly afterward Secretary Hoover, Attorney General Sargent and President Green of the American Federation of Labor had long conferences at the White House...
...matter of compensation to amateur athletes for wages lost while competing in amateur games, the report says: "Attention should be called to the fact that the point at issue was not the continuance on the part of an employer of the wage of his employee during the period of his athletic competition, but of the cessation of such payment on the part of the employer and the reimbursement by some athletic interest to the employee by reason of such cessation...
...governing body of their particular sports as such, that disturbs to the point of causes many who believe as much and more in honesty than they do in amateurism, and who give to the Bolshevik or unsound thinking laborer, either the ammunition for argument for compensation for lost wage, or a real reason for his plea that if these amateur stars are 'getting their's' in some way that he should get his in the only way which seems to him feasible. To the credit of the working man be it said that he is at least honest...
...Arizona minimum wage law for women was tested in the case of an owner of two stores in Nogales who employed four women clerks at less than the $16 a week minimum wage established by law. The Arizona law was declared invalid, the decision being based on the Supreme Court's previous decision that the Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia was unconstitutional. Justice Brandeis dissented, and Justice Holmes gave his consent only on the grounds of the previous decision...
...this cannot be a permanent remedy," continued Mr. Smith. "Three choices will be open to Mr. Baldwin in the next sitting. First, the government can go on subsidizing the mining industries; but all wage earners can with as much right claim the same support; and if given, the result would be national bankruptcy...