Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Workers' Union, signed an agreement under which the flow of commerce, stagnant for 39 days, was to be resumed. Main features of the agreement were : recognition of I. L. A. for collective bar gaining; joint control of employment by the union and employers; arbitration of the hour-wage dispute. But the agreement did not grant "closed shop," and was quickly rejected by the Portland and San Francisco locals. To be effective it must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of all West Coast I. L. A. members. Because such a majority still seemed...
...voice to create light and joy when Israel is left in darkness. . . . When the whole world was engaged in speculation to gain more wealth, the cantor was content with the necessaries of life. When the whole country made a concerted drive to organize labor and make possible a living wage, the cantor still was reluctant to move. The results are despair, despondency and destruction...
...from a survey made by some of the boys in the Twin Cities belt, the pay of some of the reporters even exceeded that of a section hand. . . . You are above the common herd, although you don't get paid for it. . . . This is a struggle between the wage earners and the dividend collectors. . . . 'I say you have to become militant. . . . You have a great chance to do something famous, so do not muff the ball by getting on too high a plane. As long as the boys downstairs are running the presses you still have a newspaper...
...mills to cut their machine hours 25% for the next twelve weeks, until some of the 332,000,000 yards of unsold cotton goods now on hand could be disposed of. A 25% cut in machine hours meant a 25% cut in man hours and a 25% cut in wages. Unless the order were canceled Tom McMahon promised to call a strike of the United Textile Workers, promised that 300,000 men would walk out. Said he: "The issue at stake apparently is whether the workers are willing to accept a 25% wage reduction. The answer based upon telegrams from...
Labor Union demanded a closed shop and a 20% wage increase. Auto-Lite agreed to a 5% wage increase and negotiation of other questions. Six weeks ago, with nothing more settled, the union struck. To outsiders it looked as if the union had picked Auto-Lite to open its drive to capture the whole motor industry. The company continued operating, hired other workmen. Wrathful strikers picketed in vain. Charging many cases of violence, the company got an injunction restraining the union from posting more than 25 pickets at its gates. Even so. workers had to fight their...