Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosperity has been greatly overrated, states the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which through its work among 18,000,000 churchgoers should know. Admitting that wage levels are at the highest yet known, it adds that living costs are correspondingly high, that the buying power of farmers, who are a third of the consuming public, has decreased, that "great numbers" of men make but $3 and $4 a day, "great numbers" of women $12-$14 a week, while "great numbers" of both men and women have no work at all. The $1,000,000,000 of U. S. investments abroad, apart...
...editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward to the highest circulation in the U. S. Last year, Publisher Hearst, who had grabbed Arthur Brisbane from the World 30 years ago, lured Philip Payne to the Daily Mirror. Many a circulation war did these snarling sheetlets wage. The Mirror once decided to help the Government popularize the $2 bill by printing the numbers of such bills and giving away $100 daily to whoever found them in circulation. Incidentally, chicle-masticators began to buy the Mirror to find lucky numbers. The News replied with the same stunt...
...reconsideration of the Jacksonville union wage scale for bituminous coal districts is to come up shortly, and as the result, foreboding consumers, fearing a possible strike, are buying supplies in huge quantities. Current shipments of bituminous are exceeding those of like periods of recent years. In Pittsburgh the retail price of bituminous, delivered to homes, rose to nine dollars a ton last week...
...been going to Great Britain.* But equally important is the domestic fear of a strike. Because of this nervous demand employers of non-union miners are finding some trouble in getting sufficient labor. Thus last week the open shop Pittsburgh Coal Co., a Mellon family holding company, offered increased wages. Higher wage scales were posted at many another mine...
...same time representatives of the conductors and trainmen of Eastern lines were preparing to convene in Manhattan with their operators to discuss their wage increases. These trades want 20% increase, which will mean, if applied throughout the nation, $90,000,000 more in pay. The matter will probably not be decided before late December...