Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would indicate, an old defensive phalanx of masculine supremacy in pedagogy. Meeting last week at Hull, this body passed resolutions to fight the women's "irrational" policy as relentlessly as the women were pursuing it. One speaker drew a dreadful picture of what would happen to the nation if wage equality were granted: young women would not have to marry.* Another fighting male explained: "It is a bold young man who today proposes marriage to a woman teacher, because he knows he will have to suffer adverse financial and social changes...
Mother Bloor said that the less than living wage, and the hard working conditions which brought about the Passaic strike are also prevalent in all the other textile industries of this country...
...Legal Aid Bureau handles cases of all types although E. S. Reid said that experience has shown that most cases are concerned with domestic relations, landlord and tenant and wage disputes, and petty torts. In order not to be used as a divorce mill, the Bureau has all cases dealing with domestic cases investigated by the Cambridge Welfare Union before acting upon them...
Admittedly the Premier will be faced by enormous opposition in his own part (Tory) if he tries to put through the Commission's recommendation that the Government acquire the nation's coal. The miners' representatives will find it difficult if not impossible to reconcile their men to a wage cut. The operators will certainly not take kindly to a complete reorganization of the industry. Finally all these groups will be tempted to keep the subsidy in force and to let matters drift, at the taxpayer's expense. Politicians of ripe experience opined last week that this latter course, dangerous though...
...seven lived in three small rooms, only one of which was lighted by a single gas jet. Most of the heat came from the cook stove. Only one room had windows. For this mite they paid a rental of about $26 a month out of a joint weekly wage...