Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since II Duce organized his country as "the corporative state"* there had not been a single open strike in Italy until last week. Suddenly the weavers of Parabiago and Legnago walked out of their mills, struck against a cut which reduced their wage to twelve lira (62?) per day. For its first four days the strike was like any other, then bands of Fascist militia began to converge upon the district. In a sense, II Duce's "corporative state" was on trial. Presumably his blackshirt militia would break the strike...
After conferring with labor leaders and employers in November 1929, President Hoover proposed that the Depression would run its course unmarred by wage strikes if employers would make no attempts at wage reduction. With two exceptions-textile disturbances at Danville, Va. (TIME, Jan. 12) and at Lowell, Mass. last month-this Hoover proposal held good until March 1931. Last week, however, came another labor demonstration against pay cuts, with economists gloomily predicting many another cut and strike before the country has fully recovered...
...Orleans, one midnight last week, a crowd of 200 Negro longshoremen, disgruntled at a wage reduction of 15? an hour, swarmed out of a meeting hall to the waterfront to wait for strikebreakers on their way to work. Harbor police saw the sullen crowd approaching, sent in a riot call. Major clash occurred at the base of the Liberty Monument, which stands near the river in memory of the men of New Orleans who died for the overthrow of Carpet Bag rule.* As the dawn came up, police charged the blackamoors, some of whom withdrew, firing revolvers. Most...
...ground sets a precedent for future invasions, it will not do to sit by and idly mourn the passing of the Lampoon. There is an issue here which is larger than the immediate question. Those who desire the tradition of freedom at Harvard to be maintained will have to wage an unflagging campaign against this suppression. By whatever legitimate means possible, the former status of the Lampoon must be restored...
Pawnbrokers, Usurers. Although many pawnbrokers operate legally, in this division a tremendous undercover business is done at shockingly high rates. The average borrower is a wage-earner, usually a railroad or factory man. From the time he leaves work he is beset by usurers in person and in advertisements. Salary-purchasers claim they do not lend money, but pay $50 for a $55 pay check soon due. Unscrupulous pawnbrokers lend at the highest legal rate and then sell the borrower $1 worth of merchandise for $10, thus augmenting their fees. On a $50 loan usurers may extract interest payments...