Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Present depression in the coal and textile industries were touched on lightly, explained briefly. Then came a table of statistics showing how many more pounds of "that useful mixture," bread and butter, the U.S. wage-earner can buy with his wages than any other wage-earner in the world...
...Railroads lost. Sir Felix Pole, general manager of the Great Western Railway Co., said that due to stagnation of industry, wage burdens imposed by the Government, and competition from busses, British railroads were losing about $5,000,000 each and every month...
...further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth. And that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly...
Only one thing has troubled the serenity of New Bedford. Wages of the textile operatives, averaging $19 a week, were undeniably low. And when the mill owners announced, early last April, that wages were to be cut by 10%, reducing the average wage to $17 a week, the workers were stirred to serious and active protest. Out of 27 mills walked some 27,000 operatives, spinners and weavers, loom fixers, slasher tenders. They left 3,000,000 spindles idle, and 50,000 looms...
...salaries to be paid legitimate actors, nothing was printed. Rumor said performers would be paid flat sums for Vocafilm recording as now is done by Vitaphone, Movietone. Satisfactory terms, sufficient to prevent the stage stars being lured to the movies, surely would be arranged. Few artists, no hams, can wage private salary war against a Shubert-Hammerstein-Brady-Woods combination...