Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will skilled union workers starve to protect the wage scales which Labor has struggled 50 years to build? That question was put to a test in New York City last week when some 2,000 union bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, lathers on Federal relief jobs walked out on strike against WPA's "security wages...
...strikers had no immediate prospect of personal gain. On the contrary, they walked out on a 50% raise in pay. Under the old FERA set-up a skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
Farmers said relief dependents were laughing at their job offers. Relief dependents said the farmers were offering starvation wages. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics said the average U. S. farm wage on July...
...store men, 900 independents, with bands, banners, slogans marched on Sacramento, packed the Assembly chamber, booed and shouted when the Governor held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able to pay, a tax on efficiency of distribution. "We have all lived long enough," cried eloquent Attorney Neylan, "to know that...
...18th Century, Pompadour, Lady Hamilton and Josephine wage their own private wars against the ravages of time while a woman hangs by her chin from a hook to reduce her "goozle" and two men at a windlass lace up the corset of the mural's only fat woman...