Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also seems to me that your non-union workers are not fair to the union, for I do not think it can be denied that the union is largely responsible for the living wage which printers are earning at the present time; yet the non-union men are enjoying the higher standard of living without contributing to the organization which has made it possible...
...quickly secluded themselves in their closely shut parlors for conference with wives or husbands. That evening of propaganda was a queer one in Billancourt. Workers greeted one another with restraint, peeked slyly aside at one another. Next day the Renault factories resumed production, having granted only the 10% wage increase...
...TIME, May 24.) It envisions the temporary acceptance by the miners of a lowered wage to be set by a National (Coal) Wage (Revision) Board, and a 'imited amount of Government financial aid while the coal industry is being reorganized on lines laid down by the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, March...
...from sedistic impulses, there are other reasons which put the weight of the war upon the civilized nation. It must carry, often overseas, always into wilderness, food; ammunitions and other trappings of a specialized war machine, the usual items of the "white man's burden"; while the unspecialized natives wage their war on a rather homeless homeland by the simple process of gathering, attacking, striking camp, and dispersing like deer...
Where sunburned ball-tossers earn their weekly wage, at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, there was a new spectacle last week. The team was away. Some one had come and lined the field with white tape from deep outfield to home plate, where excited people stood waving rags, towels and handkerchiefs. If you watched closely, you would suddenly see flights of shadows whiz in from the outfield. They were spidery little animals with pinpoint noses, whittled bodies, pipestem legs...