Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third week went by, leaving the anthracite miners and operators no nearer to deciding whether mining is to continue after Aug. 31, when the present wage contract expires. The miners have asked a 10% wage increase; the operators say that wage costs must be reduced. Incidents of the week: ¶ The operators published, in Philadelphia and Manhattan newspapers, advertisements telling the public that there was no necessity for a hard coal strike, that they were willing to offer to continue operations after Aug. 31 and to arbitrate any difference which had not been settled by that time. The miners charged...
This gloomy situation was engendered last week when the mine owners had bills pasted at the pitheads announcing their irrevocable decision to end the present wage agreement (TIME, July 27) on the last day of July. Employment for most grades would be at the same rates of pay for a longer working day. As a countermove, the Miners' Federation instructed the miners to cease work on July 31. Preparations to this effect were made and compromise arrangements were made to safeguard the mines from flooding. In the background the objects of a proposed Labor alliance, embracing 3,000,000 miners...
...create by means of an alliance among the specified organizations the means of mutual support, to assist any of the allied organizations in defending hours of labor, wage standards, in securing advancement of the standards of living or to take action to secure acceptance of and defend any principle of an industrial character which may be deemed vital by the allied organizations...
...raise money for Bayreuth (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924); of the night King Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude of famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their Art to the Master; of the beer profiteers at the Festspiel-hauser; of the shaggy, the swollen little man, lying on his back in the garden, with earth in his beard and the roots of flowers in his eyes-thinking...
...effect on the U. S. rubber industry has been marked. Wage cuts of 5% to 10% have been made by several companies. Prices of auto tires and tubes have been advanced 10% and 15%, other rubber goods as much as 20%- all to balance the books because of a larger item opposite "raw material...