Word: waged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roseland from El Paso, Tex., came Claire Patton. She had been married when she was very young and divorced before she was very much older. At Roseland a girl can make (with good fortune and tips) about $60 weekly. So Hostess Patton earned easily a living wage, devoted leisure hours to improving herself with courses at Columbia University. She used to check her textbooks at Roseland's desk before she prepared to extend Roseland hospitality to all and sundry...
Willing was the Labor Office to collect this information-willing, but not able. It had for some time been working on wage statistics, but needed from $20,000 to $30,000 to collect figures on the scale Mr. Ford requested...
...Wages, Prices. The cost of living has slowly declined since 1922, wholesale prices having fallen an average of 1/10 of 1% each year. While prices were being kept relatively stable, wages increased, so that the purchasing power of wages rose 2.1% a year. So, while prices are slightly lower than in 1922, purchasing power of wages is almost 15% greater, thus making the wage-earner's pay-envelope extend comfortably beyond the bare necessities of life. The committee complimented U. S. industry upon its wisdom in realizing that its profits could best be based, not on an attempt...
Local unions determine the number of men to constitute a theatre orchestra according to the size and type of the house. The cost of maintaining even so small an ensemble as 15 men at the average wage of $60 per week is $46,800 a year, exclusive of a conductor. The cost of installing a sound apparatus, according to the latest figures from Radio Corp. of America, is from $13,500 to $15,500 for a house seating 2,500 to 3,500; $9.000 for a theatre with a capacity of 750 to 1,250. Even plus the price...
...musicians to go? Three years ago it was practically impossible for a symphony manager to persuade a good man to change his job. Today there are 20 applications for every vacancy. Except for the Boston Symphony, every orchestra is unionized. Each organization employs approximately 100 men. The minimum wage scale runs from $90 weekly (NewYork Philharmonic-Symphony) to $60. The cost of subsidizing a symphony orchestra is staggering. Guarantors must be prepared to spend from $100,000 to $200,000 yearly. Under such circumstances, new symphony orchestras have not been and are unlikely to be springing...