Word: waged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor gave out the results of an investigation into the question of women wage earners. In all, about 8,500,000 women in this country earn their own living, but their ages and vocations are considerably different from those...
...bituminous coal producing territory, desperate attempts are being made by large financial interests "to repudiate the wage contract in the soft coal fields. Certain railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, have preferred to buy coal from distant non-Union fields rather than buy from Union mines in their own territory. Several soft coal producing companies have repudiated the wage agreement, including 1) the Consolidated Company in which John Davison Rockefeller Jr., "an estimable man with fine traits, religious and God-fearing," is a large stockholder, 2) the Pittsburgh Coal Co., "one of whose most influential stockholders is Andrew W. Mellon . . . perhaps...
...year wage contract...
...quite different. The United Mine Workers have virtual control of the anthracite producing area, but control only a part of the bituminous producing fields. It has never been able to force the check-off of Union dues upon anthracite operators. The check-off is a regular feature of the wage contract in the Unionized bituminous fields. In the anthracite fields, the production of coal has been conservative as compared to bituminous production, and there are fewer operators (the Federal Trade Commission, last week, published a report recommending measures to increase competition in the production of anthracite, contending that...
...whole, fair-minded discussion of this situation, especially in the bituminous fields. He contended that War prices and strikes with temporary high prices had brought about overexpansion of the soft-coal industry. As a result, there are many high-cost mines; and, in competition with one another, they lower wages (if they can) in an attempt to keep running. As a result, there are strikes, shortages, temporary inflation of coal prices and more overexpansion. He contended that the only way to stabilize the industry was by maintaining Union wage levels and forcing inefficient mines out of business. At present...