Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor of each industry: the job of policing would be entirely too vast, and the violations could be too easily veiled. It is asking a great deal of Labor, which contrary to silly reports of selfishness, has not been able, in the larger industries, to raise its individual weekly wages above the regular depression low, even slipping back in those brackets above the minimum wage, to surrender its supposedly guaranteed right to strike into the hands of a board whose impartiality is incomplete and whose first-hand knowledge of conditions is non-existent...
...Ford strike involved wages and hours of some 3,000 unorganized workers in Henry Ford's Chester, Pa. export assembly plant. Though Mr. Ford has not yet signed the automobile code (which binds him just the same) he pays his men a minimum wage (50? per hour) which is 7? higher than the trade agreement requires. But because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production, Mr. Ford did not have enough work to run his Chester plant more than four days a week. As a result his men earned only $16 per week. They struck...
...involved recognition of United Mine Workers by the "captive" soft coal mines of Pennsylvania. These mines are owned and their entire output is used by the great non-union iron and steel companies. Last fortnight U. M. W. won complete recognition from most commercial mine operators in a blanket wage contract under the coal code. Because that contract did not include the "captive" mines of U. S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel and others, some 75,000 Pennsylvania diggers under Insurgent Martin Ryan refused to work in any sort of mine...
...fallen to 36% of its par gold value but there has been no monetary inflation, no starting of the Japanese Treasury's printing presses. Last week Mr. Takahashi, who in his youth indentured himself to an Oakland, Calif, farmer to work for three years for a total wage of $50, voiced his sympathy for President Roosevelt, his hope that the U. S. may also be able to avoid printing press inflation, no matter how low the dollar sinks on international exchange...
There has been some criticism of the University's failure to join the ranks of the Blue Eagle. Inasmuch as Harvard stands in the position of employer to something over 4,000 wage earners, this policy has been looked upon as evidence of a lack of public spirit on the part of a wealthy, professedly liberal institution. A close examination of all the factors involved, without Harvard as well as within, reveals such criticism as fundamentally short-sighted...