Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then punched the register to accord. Another time he found his cash was regularly $2 short of the amount the punched holes indicated. A $2 a night watchman, who had been discharged, had continued secretly at his conscientious watch and extracted the $2 nightly as his proper wage. Shortly thereafter Mr. Patterson got control of a small register manufactory in Dayton, initiated intelligent salesmanship into U. S. business created many scientific management practices. He could brook no inter-organization authority competing with his own. When a man grew indispensable to N. C. R. Mr. Patterson fired him. Many present high...
...delegates representing 158,000 anthracite miners, how many voted against the new wage agreement...
...anthracite coal peace, negotiated a fortnight ago, with wage agreement to last until September, 1930 (TIME, Feb. 22), was last week made a fact...
...resumption of work at the old wages until April, 1927, to be followed without cessation of work by a new wage agreement lasting till Sept., 1930, wages being fixed by a conciliation board and an umpire...
John L. Lewis, leader of the miners: "Each of the several propositions of the operators, including those of today, required an acceptance of the principle of arbitration as a condition precedent to the making of a wage agreement for any length of time...