Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complexities. The industry, it seemed to him, was undergoing a period of adjustment. Supply had outrun demand. Small operators, or operators with large overhead, were pinched by competition and could buy coal more cheaply than mine it. These, apparently, were reasons why the operators had abrogated the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement of 1924. Secretary of Labor Davis had asserted in October, at the A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles, that the coal industry is overmanned by 300,000 men (TIME...
...accomplished budget and minimum wage reforms. He extended Illinois highways, including the first shovelful of a Lakes-to-Gulf highway...
Charges. The current bituminous coal strikes arose from the unwillingness or inability of operators to pay a wage minimum which Labor and operators had agreed to at a conference held in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1924. That conference was under the auspices of Secretaries Davis of Labor and Hoover of Commerce. Thus the gravest charge made at last week's conference was when Vice President Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers said that the Pittsburgh Coal Co. had "deliberately slapped the Government of the United States in the face in violating the Jacksonville agreement...
...Lord Dunsany's dream play, much read in schools and seldom played, appeared last week. A meagre English wage earner disappears over the hills of dreams into an Eastern land. He murders the ruler; rules in his stead; smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account...
...formula that meant that steel prices must be changed. Iron and steel companies have not been making ordinary profits recently. President Eugene Figgord Grace of Bethlehem Steel suggested to the Institute that because producers have done everything they know to reduce manufacturing costs they might have to reduce wages. U. S. Steel Corp. men there opposed any wage lowerings...