Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blow the Whistle. The current fight had begun last fall when all the railroad brotherhoods were agitating for wage increases. Some 1,000,000 workers in 17 non-operating brotherhoods accepted a 15½?-an-hour boost. Two operating brotherhoods with 250,000 members (trainmen and conductors) also accepted the 15½? boost...
Lamont construction is back on schedule again and engineers hope for an early fall completion of the building, now that the month-long strike of masons has been settled. The walkout over a wage dispute had threatened to halt all other work on the building...
During the morning, Gootenberg addressed 200 strikers at a mass demonstration. He told the workers that the HLU backs the union's demand for a 29 cent hourly wage boost...
According to the HLU, the CIO union is striking for "a 29 cent hourly wage increase in order to bring the wages of the highest-paid third of its workers up to the Bureau of Labor Standards minimum for the urban worker--$66 per week." A packers' counter offer of nine cents has been turned down by the union...
Today's action marks the first time since the Club 100 incident last spring that the HLU has taken to a picket line. A unanimous resolution of the organization last Thursday night voiced support for the strikers' demands. The HLU pickets will bear signs declaring "Students Back Wage Demands" and "Radcliffe Supports Strike...