Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed its teeth. Following the assassination of a Kansas City truckmen's organizer, all Kansas City building trades unionists called a one-day demonstration strike. More important, 9,000 Gulf Coast stevedores walked out in an effort to force union recognition at New Orleans and raise the general wage scale...
...jobless citizens actually put to work by last week, a discouraging number were growling about their low pay, threatening to strike. Last week President Roosevelt tossed them another bone by changing the basis of local wage rates from county population to population of the largest municipality within the county...
...miners, got their basic pay upped from $5 to $5.50 per day. Adding on similar increases for piece-workers, operators figured their labor bill had been raised 15? per ton, $90,000,000 per year. Virginia, Tennessee and some Kentucky operators held out because of disagreement over wage differentials, but their 23,000 miners were not enough for the rest to worry about...
...strike had been called five times, postponed five times since February (TIME, April 8, et seq.). Chief reason given for the postponements was that both sides were waiting for the passage of the Guffey Coal Bill to establish a "little NRA" in the soft coal industry, assure miners good wages and operators good prices. The Guffey Bill had been passed three weeks, and the National Bituminous Coal Commission and the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, which were to settle production and wage questions, had been appointed three days when the strike finally came off this week. When puzzled newshawks tried...
...estimated 1.000,000 dependants figured that they would not lose much 'by going on the relief rolls for a while. ("Certainly our people expect relief," said President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers.) In this atmosphere the strike had been called when neither side would budge over a wage concession which would have lifted the whole industry's pay roll less than $17,000 a day. But after lengthy haggling during the strike's first day, operators and miners' representatives were nearer agreement. Said Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward L. McGrady: "The situation looks hopeful...