Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scranton, Pa., the tri-district convention of the United Mine Workers assembled. The three districts are Nos. 1, 7, 9, which constitute the anthracite mining region. The significance of the convention is that, on Aug. 31, the two-year wage contract between the United Mine Workers and the anthracite operators expires. If it is not renewed, there will be a "suspension of operations...
...situation in outline was as follows: To assist the coal trade by reducing production costs and to decrease the ever-swelling army of unemployed, the mine owners decided to cancel a national wage agreement with the men and to call for an eight instead of a seven- hour working day. In effect, this raises the workers' weekly earnings...
...average wage of women workers $12 to $16 a week...
...German Army loomed large in debates. Following a Communist attack in the newspaper Welt Am Abend, which cited wholesale extravagances, War Minister Gessler (Democrat) defended the Army estimates by saying: "Germany is disarmed. Germany cannot wage war. Germany is not preparing secretly for war. Those denying these self-evident truths...
...sooner was Dr. Macartney elected than his following turned upon Dr. Erdman. They began to regard a refusal to fight Liberals as an almost greater sin than being a Liberal. In the pages of The Presbyterian and in the faculty rooms of the seminary at Princeton, war was waged. Dr. Erdman was ejected from a long-held post of Student Advisor. It was even recorded that Dr. Erdman had been seen walking with Henry Sloane Coffin, Liberal leader. But somehow, war lost its glamor; and. last week, Dr. Erdman was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, succeeding Dr. Macartney...