Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia last month, 9,000 members of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America went on strike at RCA Manufacturing Co.'s plant at Camden, N. J. Official demands of this potent industrial union were a closed shop, abolition of RCA's company union, a 20% wage increase. Real objectives were recognition by RCA of the union as sole collective bargaining agency within the plant, the same working conditions accorded employes of the nearby Philco Radio and Television Corp. factory...
...spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school, NYA's 48 state administrators had concocted an assortment of work relief projects, so designed as not to crowd the adult Works Progress Administration. Maximum monthly wage...
Without comment the thoughtful New Republic published a list of 158 companies with the names and salaries of their highest-paid officers, paralleled this list with another showing the average weekly wage in their industry. Payment ranged downward from $304,398 for American Tobacco's George Washington Hill to a low of $40,000, found in four instances, while average weekly wages ran from $38.45 (fire insurance) to $12.53 (textile). Outstanding disparity: Mr. Hill's compensation contrasted with the average $13.76 a week earned by workers in the tobacco industry...
...attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...impudent talk from youngsters to the Grand Mufti revealed a still deeper cause of last week's revolt: the crackup of the Arab social hierarchy in Palestine. Jewish development of Palestine has weakened the downtrodden Arab farm workers to the feudal tyranny of their Arab masters, has raised wage and living standards in Palestine, introduced the eight-hour day, encouraged Arab trade-unions. Result: economic liberation of Arab farmers. At bottom the anti-Jewish rage of the Arab landowners, backed by their Bedouin cavalry hordes, was caused by this unexpected social upheaval. But the leaders are willing to compromise...