Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glen Falls, N. Y., a 10% wage-cut for shirt-cutters in the Yorke, McMullen Leavens and the Bronne factories precipitated a protest strike...
...Mansfield, Ohio, Empire Steel Corp. ordered 15% wage-cut in its plant. Out walked 1,600 Empire workers in the first steel strike of the Depression. Three days later Empire officials rescinded their pay-cut order. The victorious strikers trooped back to work...
American Federation of Labor, began to talk publicly about strikes. Said he: "We feel we are being driven to the point where we must resist attempts to reduce wages, even though it may be necessary for workers to go on strike." At the White House conferences in the first days of the Depression, Mr. Green had pledged Labor not to strike for higher pay in return for Industry's promise to maintain existing wage scales. Now he suspected Industry of beginning to break its promise. He felt labor would thus be automatically released from its no-strike pledge. Cited...
...Novarum ("Concerning New Things"). Firmly rejecting the new Socialism and its "community of goods" as "directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind," he enunciated a platform which he was later to expand so as to put Mother Church on record for trades unionism, the eight-hour day, minimum wage laws, old age pensions and much else that was "radical" then, commonplace...
...than Religion (whereof the Church is the interpreter and guardian) in drawing the rich and the working class together, by reminding each of its duties to the other, and especially of the obligations of justice." He recognized the occasional justification for strikes, the necessity for labor unions and decent wage standards, but he made clear that Mother Church could go no further. "As for those who possess not the gifts of fortune," he said, "they are taught by the Church that in God's sight poverty is no disgrace, and that there is nothing to be ashamed...