Word: waged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laborers. During the World War he took a firm stand for Peace as an active member of the American Union against Militarism. Since then he has run a New York Socialist paper, and been prominent in the organization of the party, and the conducting of strikes against wage cuts and injunctions. He has done a great deal to justify the Socialist party in the opinion of the world...
...said Nominee Smith, "the object of linking prosperity to the tariff is, first to scare off businessmen and scare off the wage earners; but there is another? campaign contributions have, to come...
Last week the spokesmen of 27,000 textile workers of New Bedford, Mass., said NO to the State, citizens, manufacturers. Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal...
...week strike was over. Although accepting the 5% wage cut, the mill workers obtained an agreement that any further reduction would be preceded by 30-day notice. Estimates of strike cost to workers & mills were as high...
...platform promises that the Party, if returned to power, will gradually nationalize the coal, transport, power and life insurance businesses and establish minimum wage scales for all earners. Swiftest action is promised to repeal: 1) the Trades Union Act (making a "Coercive" or General Strike illegal); 2) the Trades Disputes Act (restraining unions from making extraordinary levies on their members) ; and 3) the Eight Hour Mines Act (under which British miners now delve an hour a day longer than...