Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company is an economic dependency of Harvard just like all the other business in the Square. Any boycott by the faculty and students is a blow to the company and an aid to the drivers in the fight for a living wage...
Local 381 of the Taxicab Drivers of America struck a week ago last Friday against the Yellow Cab Company in order to get "a family wage of a mere $15 for a 10 hour day." The Union under President Stephen A. Dunlevy charges that President Magann of the taxi company makes enough profit out of the company after paying his 90 drivers $12.60 a week to run a stable of racing horses...
Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an "abstention from work." Day after day in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, Messrs. Lewis, Charles O'Neill of the operators and three other negotiators for each side swapped stories, cussed Hitler, disagreed about Roosevelt, issued futile counterblasts to the press. They had been doing approximately this since their last...
...preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including a clause which makes U. M. W. pay penalties of $1-$2 per day per man during any strike called while a wage contract is in force...
...increase in dining hall rates in the Houses for next year was a foregone conclusion after the new union wage agreement...