Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Federation of Labor is strongly committed to the policy of collective bargaining, of wage contracts and the observance of wage agreements...
This last declaration is practically equivalent to the statement that until American labor changes its policy, there will never be a general strike in this country. With each trade having its own wage agreement, it cannot go on strike merely in sympathy with the strike of another group...
...appears that when the Government coal subsidy expired a fortnight ago, the Coal Owners' Mining Association pasted up notices which, in legal sense, were no more than offers of employment to miners at a reduced wage scale. The Coal Miners' Federation interpreted these "offers" as "lockout notices"-presumably on the theory that, since the miners had announced that they would not work for less than the wage in force under the subsidy, they were automatically "locked out" by the offer of a lesser wage. On this basis, the Miners' Federation ordered the "coal strike," as distinguished from...
...only object a satisfactory solution of the coal mining difficulty which had come to an impasse. Following the brief period of prosperity in 1919 the conditions of the miners had been steadily growing worse over a period of five years. Finally in August of last year further wage reduction became necessary in order to keep the mines going. But the workers had reached rock bottom already, and a Royal Commission was appointed while the government agreed to subsidize the industry...
...This arrangement lasted until April 30, when the workers agreed to accept the recommendations of the Commission, but all that Baldwin offered them was a program of wage reduction and longer hours with no guarantee of future betterment. Negotiations failed and the workers were forced to resort to the general strike...