Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years coal miners and coal operators got into bitter arguments which often drifted into bitter strikes whenever a wage contract expired. Last week with a contract due to expire in a fortnight, miners and operators had little argument, agreed amicably. This was in itself a milestone in U. S. labor relations. The fact that their mutual agreement was an agreement to have a strike did not lessen the importance of the innovation...
...operators alike had begun to seek a new savior. They had picked the bill of Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey to declare bituminous coal a public utility; to set up a Federal Commission to allot coal production; to establish 21 regional marketing agreements to maintain minimum prices, wage and hour schedules for labor; to appropriate $300,000,000 to do these things and to buy up submarginal coal lands; to impose a tax of 3? to 9? a ton on coal...
Reports trickled into the Press of wage cuts. A restaurant in Honolulu had put waitresses on a $4 seven-day week. Most news concerned the textile industry, pride of the Blue Eagle, first to take a code. At Lincolnton, N. C. mill hours were upped from 40 to 50 per week, minimum wages also upped from $12 to $16. At Greenville, S. C. the Piedmont Shirt Co. cut wages 25%, upped hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from...
Labor, afraid of wage cuts, and Business, afraid of price cuts, both trembled harder than the facts to date warranted. After two years under a system of government guarantees, they evidently feared the experiment of again doing business as they had been doing it for 150 years without Federal regulation. Those who feared cried out and those who rejoiced-including consumers who got cheaper cigarets, cheaper liquor, better trade-in allowances on their cars-kept mostly silent...
...Henry Ford was just a successful manufacturer of a popular low-priced car. By the next morning he was the most-discussed man in the world. On that date Henry Ford announced a minimum wage for all employes...