Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four" Brotherhoods-Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen-with 17 smaller rail groups. Their membership blankets the U. S. and Canada. First move to reduce the Brotherhood pay scale came last month in Canada where Canadian National and Canadian Pacific began negotiating directly with their employes for a voluntary wage cut. Last week the poll of C. N. and C. P. workers still remained untabulated. Upon its result largely depended the attitude of Brotherhood men in the U. S. toward pay cuts...
...would not be granted, but that by public appeal the nation and its legislators would be awakened to the carriers' grievous condition. If it were shown that rates could not be upped, that costs could not be reduced, then the public might realize that only one remedy remained: wage reduction. Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem...
Against any cut in rail wages is aligned Labor's strongest force. Steel, copper, textile & other great industries could- and did-cut wages (TIME, Oct. 5) without any great outcry from Labor. But railroad workers are most strongly organized. Their 21 unions contain 1,300,000 members, many affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, others (including the potent Big Four Railroad Brotherhoods-410,000 engineers, firemen, trainmen, conductors) not so affiliated. In times of trouble the railroad unions work together, as in 1916 when they got the Adamson Act and the eight-hour day. Three weeks...
...important but less tangible is the passing of the ideal of Bacon's "full man," who values cultural studies for their subjective richness more than practical subjects and their immediate advantages. More and more, colleges are feeling themselves accountable to their alumni for the adequacy of their gradates as wage-earners, not as well-rounded human beings. The products of such an attitude are apt to be fragmentary personalities with a strongly utilitarian turn of mind. Though it may be inevitable in the face of modern living that liberal-arts colleges should merge gradually into technical schools, many college...
...dikes each day in squads. Sometimes waist deep in water, they have driven piles with heavy mallets, carted sand and stones in awkward wooden trays. Cost to the Saxon Government has worked out at 3 marks per day. Of this, 50 pfennigs represents the man's wage, plus 2 marks 50 pfennigs for his food. As former Saxon army barracks were used, and as the 120 washed their own bedding, the cost of lodging them was figured...