Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause. The published cause of the strike was the expiration of the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement* on April 1. The actual cause is the Union of United Mine Workers' fight to avoid practical extinction...
...wage is the minimum per day for day workers. Miners paid by the minimum rate per ton, $1.08, may earn as much...
They might have been party leaders, might have held the highest office in the land; both preferred to wage a lone fight...
...substance of President Angell's annual report upon the condition of Yale University contains little that is new and a great deal that is just. The public may be tired of the oft-repeated assertion that teachers are underpaid but until the instructor is given at least a living wage such repetition should be continued. Eventually poor salaries may affect others than the unfortunate instructors and their families, fears; Dr. Angell. He foresees a steady decline in the quality of young teachers, who are not blessed with an independent income or an heiress in marriage...
...conference between the United Mine Workers and the bituminous coal operators closed last week in Miami, Fla. It was a complete dud. The union miners voted solidly against a flexible wage scale; the operators voted solidly against renewing the Jacksonville agreement of 1924 (five-day week, six-hour day, $7.50 daily wage for unskilled labor). Big-jawed John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, will now try to reach separate agreements with the operators by districts. In Illinois and Indiana, where the operators can afford to pay high wages, he may be successful. But there will undoubtedly...