Word: waged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third time since the calling of the miners' strike on Sept. 1, negotiations for a new wage contract in the anthracite industry failed. There was only one meeting last week and then an adjournment. The operators made two final proposals...
...That means that not far from one-half of the women workers today are young, with their lives not only as workers but as mothers wholly before them to be made or marred by the conditions under which they live and work. Nearly two millions of women wage earners are already married, not including those who are widowed, and divorced or separated...
...Woman's Party. This group advocates an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that "men and women shall have equal rights throughout the U. S. and every place subject to its jurisdiction"-which among other things would invalidate the legal restrictions on hours of work, the minimum wage, etc., for women unless the restrictions were made to apply to both men and women. The Party contends that the type of special legislation raising the standards for employment of women really tends to injure women in industry-put them out of jobs, hinder their promotion, etc. The greater part...
...reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they wage their wars out of sight. But last week the public was astounded to find, in a famed tabloid sheet, a reversion to the vilest of tactics of journalism-a gratuitous insult hurled at an honored newspaper builder, a sickly slur cast at a courageous weekly. Don C. Seitz, long business...
...Davis. They had come to argue for a bill increasing the salaries of Federal judges. Mr. Hughes snapped his fingers: "I don't care that for all your Fourth of July orations about love for America. The way to show that love is to pay a living wage to American judges." He pointed out that in Manhattan a Federal judge paid $7,500 a year is likely to live across the way from a state judge paid $17,500 a year. "In New York, for example, an apartment in a respectable neighborhood costs half a judge's salary...