Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week strike leaders slightly modified their demands. They were ready to accept a 48-hour week instead of a 40. They would return on the 1927 wage scale, instead of the $20 per week minimum. But Manager J. A. Baugh of the Loray Mill was "too busy" even to discuss these concessions. To him the strikers were just "discharged" employes. His mill, he claimed, was running well without them...
...collected by 552,507 wage earners in 27,062 establishments, making the average weekly wage slightly less than...
Singles--Whitbeck defeated Hayes (A), 6-2, 6-2; Ingraham defeated Bowditch (A), 6-3, 7-5; Ward defeated Richardson (A), 6-2, 6-2; W. L. Breese '31 defeated Hicks (A), 6-3, 6-8, 6-3; J. L. Wage '30 defeated Notopulos (A), 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; R. L. Tower '31 defeated Clark...
...happened, 5,000 workers trooped idly through dusty little Elizabethton. Union leaders denied they had called the strike, said it was "spontaneous," urged strikers "to make a real strike out of it." Complaint had been made against the German mill owners that they had not carried out the wage and time agreements which settled the first strike...
Farm. One-half of the total number of U. S. farmers make less than $800 a year. The profits of only one-quarter exceed $1,200 per year, the Department of Agriculture's "minimum wage" for a farm family. Reason for low income: For every dollar the consumer pays for food, about 30 cents gets back to the farmer, 70 cents going for transportation, marketing, etc. The fanner gets no more because, ambitious, he grows too much, puts it up for sale. With all farmers doing this, a surplus is created, depressing prices. The farmer markets his goods individually...