Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
Last week, the Interstate Commerce Commission denied a petition for a 10% flat reduction on anthracite coal freight rates-something which the miners had asked as an aid to getting their wage increase without cost to consumers. But the Commission did order reductions in the rates on soft coal of the "smokeless," low-volatile variety-one of the substitutes for anthracite...
...three weeks (TIME, July 20 et seq.) the miners had been presenting their case for a 10% wage increase and the check-off (collection by the operators of union dues from miners' wages). The operators' representatives had sat and listened, merely shaking their heads "No." Then John L. Lewis, President of the Miners' Union, called over the heads of the operators' representatives to Samuel D. Warriner, who in previous years negotiated for the operators, saying in effect: "These negotiators of yours are only stalking horses. Come here yourself and we'll talk business with...
Thereupon the miners gave Mr. Lewis power to call a strike, on Sept. 1, when the present wage contract expires. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Warriner resumed their exchange of notes...
Could more employment be given at a fair wage...