Word: wages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Flume. President Wilson told Italy quite frankly that he believed she should not have Flume; and by far the greater portion of that group of Americans who follow foreign affairs supported President Wilson. Lack of access to the sea is one of the greatest incentives for a nation to wage war; it dominated Russian policy for a century and a half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland of Flume. Is the port more important...
...What evidence have you that any American body of wage-earners have threatened to strike if intervention did not cease...
...regard to every unit in its composition; it must prove to every faction that it stands for fair play even above and against its own interests. When, and only when, the confidence of labor in the public has been won, will we see a tendency towards arbitration in wage and working-hour disputes...
...adjusting basis. A five-day week means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less...
...brief, this scheme provides for a national board of directors, one-third of whom will be elected by the workingmen and two-thirds of whom will be elected or appointed by the railroad officials and by the government. This board will control the wage disputes, appoint sub-committees, and will appraise all land taken over by the railroads. The plan also includes arrangements by which the government shall pay for half of the expense of any new additions to the railroad system, and the community benefited shall pay for the other half. The profits are to be divided by further...