Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike is occasioned purely by wage demands. According to the U. S. Coal Commission, out of 45,678 outside day men at the mines, 43,822 earn less than $2,000 a year...
With the strike, due to failure (TIME, Aug. 31) to reach a new wage contract, comtinuing for its second month in the nation's anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, and with no prospect of a settlement there in sight, John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, traveled into West Virginia to start a strike there...
Said Mr. Lewis of the operators: "They have torn up their wage contracts. They have closed their mines for long periods in order to starve their employes into submission; they have evicted their employes from their homes; they have manned their properties with armed mine guards, searchlights, barbed wire fences, stockades and such paraphernalia of war; they have resorted to the use of unfriendly courts and have sought to bind the workers hand and foot by the issuance of court injunctions stripping the worker of nearly every right guaranteed him under the Constitution; they have, in substance and effect, conducted...
...commenting on his wage-earning to Mr. E. E. Keevin, director of the Roosevelt Newsboys' Association, who strongly endorsed the candidacy of the Dorchester boy, the latter wrote as follows...
...strike of the miners in the anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, called because the wage contract with the Union had expired on Aug. 31 and no new contract could be agreed upon, continued another week without any progress and practically without any effort made...