Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carriers' move for increased freight rates to offset reduced earnings and avert wage cuts got up more steam last week. Following the Chicago meeting of the Association of Railway Executives for the same purpose (TIME, May 18), 40 members of the Eastern Railroads' Presidents' Conference gathered in Manhattan, named a committee to petition the I. C. C. for a general revision of the rate structure. To the support of the executives came Labor (weekly), official mouthpiece for the 1,800,000 members of the four great railroad brotherhoods. As holders of $1,200,000,000 in rail...
...Minimum Wage. A Catholic cannot be a Communist, but can he be a Socialist? Before answering this question last week Pius XI made clear his general position respecting Labor. He is for the minimum wage...
...wage paid to the workingman must be sufficient for the support of himself and his family. . . . Intolerable and to be opposed with all our strength is the abuse whereby mothers of families, because of the insufficiency of the father's salary, are forced to engage in gainful occupations outside the domestic walls...
...what Mr. Farrell said about price-structure had the most direct relation to Industry's question of the hour: Must wages come down everywhere and drastically? In his eloquent address, Bethlehem's President Schwab had said: "We have had a stabilized wage rate since 1923. In boom times our men have done the square thing by us. We have not had strikes or unreasonable demands to disturb us when markets were good, and in dull times we have not tried to take our loss of business out of the hide of the worker by reducing wages. This...
...organization on his hands (now numbering about 1,000 with additional Lofts in Boston, Syracuse & Detroit). Membership requirement: proof of bonafide pumping, plus a life-membership fee of $5. Some of the members: the late Myron T. Herrick, Will H. Hays (who had to put his weekly 10? wage in the Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross...