Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wage Policy. In adopting a report on wages the Federation for the first time in its history adopted a productivity theory of wages. It has had "a living wage" and other wage war cries, but its declaration last week would seem to place the wage earner side by side with the employer in the effort to increase production-provided labor can get the benefit of the increase...
...Colleges depend upon Industry now, to be sure, and are coming more and more so to depend. It is because so many kodaks are sold that the College enlarges its philosophy department, and pays the astronomy professor a living wage. It is because the cigarette business, the pig iron and sweet chocolate business, do so well that the College can build new laboratories. On the other hand, captains of Industry would not make these generous be-guests to the College if the College turned out educated men and women. Educated men and women like to read the same book more...
...long ago (TIME, Oct. 5) "Emperor" A. J. Cooke incendiary Laborite, declared that, as a protest against the lowering of certain wage scales since the Baldwin coal subsidy went into effect (TIME, Aug. 31), the miners would refuse to testify before the Royal Commission* which is now gathering data on the coal dispute. Last week, in the meeting of the British Miners' Delegate Conference, at London, this recalcitrant stand was voted down, five...
...this point directs that the miners' case shall be presented as forcibly as possible before the Royal Commission, and that another direct appeal shall be made to Premier Baldwin urging him to accept the miners' interpretation of the coal truce agreement as forbidding any decrease in wages whatever. Should the Premier again declare that the operators have a right to lower certain wage scales to the base rates of the 1924 agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy, the miners' executives are instructed that they may "call on the Trade Union Congress to enforce the miners...
Last week there was considerable agitation in England over the terms of Premier Baldwin's coal subsidy (TIME, Aug. 31). The operators, supported by Mr. Baldwin, declared that the articles of the "coal truce" now in force permit them to lower the wages of certain miners, in accordance with the variable base rates of the 1924 wage agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy. The miners, headed by "Emperor" A. J. Cook, incendiary laborite, obtained what they considered expert legal opinion, to the effect that no wage reductions of any sort are admissible under existing agreements...