Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge appointed an emergency board-as provided for in the Watson-Parker (1926) railway labor law-to investigate the longstanding wage dispute between 47 western railroads and 70,000 railroad employes. The appointees: Lawyer James R. Garfield (Cleveland), Chief Justice Walter P. Stacey of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Professor Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lawyer Chester H. Rowell of Berkeley, Calif., George T. Baker of Davenport, Iowa. Under the law, each investigator receives $100 per day plus expenses. The board must report to the President within 30 days...
...investigation at Columbia then will not center upon a comparison of the wages earned by the educated and the non-educated, but upon the effect of education upon the wage earning capacities of those of equal ability. The result, even though drawn from such uncertain sources, may fulfill the warmest hopes of the investigators in its reversal of accepted facts. But it can interest educators only in so far as it takes from them one more weapon in their futile battle with the business men who question the worth of college education. Although those worn figures can have no vital...
...night at the organization headquarters. W. C. Thompson 1 Dv., who was elected president of the newly formed organization, is just returned from a summer spent in New Bedford where he was engaged in the bitter struggle carried on by the New Bedford Textile Council against the ten percent wage cut which the textile bosses attempted to enforce last spring. He was arrested four times on the picket line. The officers who will compose the executive force are J. H. Weiss 3L, vice-president, and A. H. Kalish 2G, secretary. Weiss was prominent in undergraduate politics a few years...
...Professor A. S. Coolidge '15 of the Department of Chemistry and Lincoin Fairley '23 of the Department of Social Ethics. Hapgood has been an active participant in the recent struggles over the Saceo Vanzetti case, and the later attempts of the United Mine Workers of America to prevent a wage cut in the soft coal fields...
...Fairley '23, Hapgood, who is the husband of the Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, was active last year in the fight to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti and has taken prominent part in the recent struggles of the United Mine Workers of America to prevent a wage-cut in the soft coal fields...