Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Besides "waging peace," the Navy would wage neutrality. Despite their martial preoccupations, Navy men are students of U. S. trade. They know that if other nations war, the Navy may be called on to protect the neutral rights of U. S. merchantmen. About merchant shipping they point...
Except for 1923, when eight billion square yards of cotton products were manufactured in the U. S. (two billion more than any year before or since), New England textile rajahs have sat on uneasy thrones. In 1924 many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag...
...superimpose on the League and Locarno covenants which it has found unacceptable, its own plan for universal peace. In this connection Senator Borah has written, "It is safe to prophesy that the United States will never become identified or cooperate with a system for peace based upon, 'pledges to wage war'." Unwilling, in other words, to assist in the forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect, the United States still wishes to protect her prosperity by exchanging paper promises of peace with other powers. It is explained that this multilateral pact does not interfore with the League...
Business. ". . . In both agricultural and industrial production the countries of America are now complementing one another to an unusual degree, resulting in an increasing exchange of commodities. Furthermore, recent years have witnessed a most gratifying rise in the standards of living of the wage earners throughout the Americas. They enjoy a greater productive and earning capacity, with a consequent increase in their purchasing power which has been reflected in the growing volume of inter-American commerce...
...present no less than 15,000,000 Britons of the wage earning class are "covered" by ill-health, unemployment, accident, old age, or life insurance imposed or furnished by the State. Each week more than 1,250,000 old age pensions are paid -this in the face of a national budgetary deficit exceeding $830,000,000 for the past twelvemonth...