Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John L. Lewis met his dilemma as only John L. Lewis can. His 375,000 soft coal miners stayed out on strike against a ruling of the Administration's Wage Stabilization Board that they should get only $1.50 of the $1.90 daily wage raise granted in their new contract with the mine operators. Lewis himself went right on politicking for the Democratic ticket. But to the soft coal operators the United Mine Workers' boss sent a letter telling them just how he felt about the adverse Administration gesture which he had never expected...
...effect the necessary ten percent cut, Coolidge last July slashed $16,500 from salaries and $5,500 from general expenses. The wage cuts were made on a departmental basis; the library department decided to reduce their night staff...
...Wage increases...
...Wage regulations...
...worst case of wage discrimination in the British public service," said the Manchester Guardian. "Certain post-office workers in London are receiving weekly wages 50% greater than workers doing exactly the same job in Manchester and the North. What is perhaps even worse is the fact that there has been no wage increase for either group since September 1873." The workers whose state so roused the Guardian were cats employed to keep mice from mutilating Her Majesty's mail...