Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Baldwin, though presumably at his direction, Chancellor Churchill had reversed the whole policy of the Cabinet, had turned it from encouragement of the owners in their demand that the miners accept longer hours to support of the miners in their resistance to accepting regional instead of national wage agreements...
Statement. Chancellor Churchill declared publicly: "The Government would never have secured passage for the bill extending the hours of mine labor from seven to eight (TIME, July 12) had they known that the owners would thereupon refuse to discuss a national wage settlement. The Government never thought for a moment that opening the door* for district settlements meant shutting it in the face of a national settlement. We wish both doors to be open and settlements to be achieved through both...
...Extending the hours of labor made it possible for the coal owners to offer higher wages and thus tempt the miners back to work through the "door" of regional agreements which they would not have contracted at the seven-hour wage...
...year. In Italy, he pays $599.30, in France, $348, in Belgium $238.45, in England $202.50. "The issue of the campaign is summed up in the fact that the American market today consumes 90 per cent of our production, that the Republican party has protected that market for American wage earners and producers, and that to elect a Democratic senate or house would be a step in the direction of letting down the bars for foreign cheap labor competition in our market." The Democrats, being the party out of office, naturally run on a reform platform and "Slush" is their...
...lockout" (so called by the miners) consisted in the posting by the mine owners of an offer of work at a wage less than that which the miners had previously announced they would accept...