Word: waged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Production-60% (by volume, not prices) greater than in 1914, accompanied by an increase of 50% in the amount of power used and an increase of only 25% in the number of wage earners...
...have determined that the $100 minimum wage, even with the large crews which we carry, leaves us a substantial profit, and all talk that this is a blow to the American merchant marine or other shippers is bunk. The big shipping companies do not pay decent wages merely because they do not have to. They are interested in keeping their men away from conditions in which they might enjoy the advantages that good wages bring. They want their sailors to remain in ignorance of the better things in life in order that there will be no demand for better wages...
...court which the Government set up (TIME, July 20) to inquire into the causes of the dispute* in the mining industry was boycotted by the mine workers who declined to recognize its competence unless the mine operators first withdrew their wage-agreement notice. The operators remained adamant. The court was adjourned temporarily after one ten-minute session...
...highest median wage for women in any of the states investigated is $16.85 per week in Rhode Island. The lowest median wage is $8.80 in Alabama...
This procedure is still observed between coal operators and coal miners when they are about to join battle over a wage scale. It was observed, last week, at Atlantic City. There the miners came, headed by John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to present their demands, drawn up a week before at Scranton, Pa. (TIME, July 13), for a new wage contract to replace that which expires on Aug. 31. The miners ask 1) a two-year contract; 2) increases of 10% for contract miners and $1 a day for day workers; 3) the check-off (collection...