Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working people of the United States will observe with keen interest this experimentation in the use of the sympathetic strike as a means of bringing about the settlement of a wage controversy in a single industry...
...Lockout-Strike." The long standing causa belli was, of course, the long standing demand of the British Coal Miners' Federation for continuance of the seven-hour day and a national minimum wage scale 33 1/3% above the pre-War wage...
...miners obtained these hours and this wage, but last year the Coal Owners' Mining Association declared itself unable to maintain the arrangement, and a strike was only averted (TIME, Aug. 10) when the present Baldwin Conservative Government granted a £20,000,000 coal subsidy, which sustained the 1924 wage level artificially until last week, when the subsidy expired. During the week Premier Baldwin persuaded the Owners' Association to offer a national minimum wage 20%* higher than the pre-War scale, if the Miners' Federation would accept an increase in the hours of labor from seven to eight. The miners...
...industry last July has already cost the British taxpayer £100,000,000 (nearly half a billion dollars), there is the most intense opposition to its continuance* by all unsubsidized taxpayers. At the same time, the miners insisted last week, that they would walk out May, 1, unless their wage demands were met; and the owners vowed they would lock the miners out rather than pay the wage demanded, unless the government continues its subsidy...
...President sent a message to the House requesting more money for prohibition enforcement. (See PROHIBITION.) ¶ Banners-and thereon inscriptions: "Yes, we too want to eat; our mothers work nights, our fathers days, who cares for us?" "That 10% wage cut took our milk away," "The truth is on our side," "Come to Passaic and see how we live"-fluttered about the paths of the White House. Three men, two women, six little children from Passaic, N. J., strike scenes carried them. But Everett Sanders, Presidential secretary, gently waved them away, informing the picketers that the President had a slight...