Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lengthen temporarily the working hours of British miners from seven to eight. As everyone knows, the strategy of this measure (TIME, June 28) is to lure the 1,000,000 striking British coal miners back to work by making it possible for the owners to offer the miners the wage they ask, providing they will work an extra hour. Last week A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, secretary of the Miners Federation, became so fearful lest this strategy succeed that he threatened to order on strike even the "safety pump men" who prevent by their work irreparable damage to the coal mines...
...sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working day of their employees by one hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore. II. Italian newspapers are forbidden to print editions larger than six pages, from which must bs stricken all news of crime, sport, the arts, literature. News of other nations than Italy must be cut to a skeletonized resume. III. After Nov. 1, all gasoline imported into Italy must...
...working groups last week. In Manhattan, each employe of the First National Bank discovered one morning a novel mid-year gift, an unexpected bonus equal to his entire year's salary. At the end of a year every bank employe expects some kind of bonus. It is his wage gamble against usually meagre salaries. This bonus was different. It was the personal gift of the bank's board chairman, George Fisher Baker, to 148 clerks and junior officers. It approximated $350,000, repeated a similar donation Mr. Baker had made in 1910, upon his 70th birthday. This time...
...word, the Baldwin strategy was to enable the owners to paste up notices offering work to the miners at a tempting wage scale if they would desert their leaders, return to work eight hours...
...international system of differential legislation based upon sex, in spite of any temporary advantage, must develop into an intolerable tyranny and result in the segregation of women workers and impose fresh hardships upon their capacity as wage-earners...