Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point has now been reached, however, where local taxation is a pressing burden on farmers, merchants, home-owners and even wage-earners everywhere. Local taxes, which were only $2,956,000,000 in 1919, have increased to $4,449,000,000. The tendency is one which may deeply concern all U. S. business interests in coming years...
...Egyptian "crisis" was the mere symptom of a widespread disorder. Self-determination, so loudly proclaimed from the Hall of Mirrors in 1919, now passes current, quite contrary to intent, in Egypt, in India, in Morocco, and in the Philippines. Even China demands that a people's right to wage civil war in its own way--in fair weather, with Sundays and holidays off--shall not be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
...John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, secured the passage of a resolution condemning Warren S. Stone, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, for failing to renew a wage agreement with the United Mine Workers at coal mines owned by the Coal River Collieries, of which Mr. Stone is Chairman of the Board of Directors...
...Democratic Party is to wage a successful campaign in 1928 or any subsequent year, it must be done for ever with Mr. Bryan, his family and his platforms...
Evidence of a political complexion was not lacking in the present general strike. The Social Democrat (Labor) body made relatively moderate wage demands; but those of the Pan-Germans (the Austrian Party which advocates union with Germany) were found to be exorbitant. This was taken to mean that the Pan-Germans, who form the coalition with the Christian Socialists, had gone over to the Social Democrats...