Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused to recognize the union, damned it as "Communistic." One organizer was George Pershing, representative of the Communist Daily Worker, publicly introduced...
Thus spoke, last week, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon over the radio from Washington. Conjured up by his hopeful words the heart of many a wage-earner and professional man leaped with...
...Dearborn factory with increasingly unbelievable speed till it became "a landmark on the national scene as familiar as the eagle on its dollars and the cornfields on its plains." But in 1914 Ford caught the public, that is the journalistic imagination, by his announcement of a $5 minimum daily wage for labor that claimed only $1 or $1.50 elsewhere. From then on he provided periodic newspaper headlines. In quick succession came the campaign against the "Wise Men of Zion" and the voyage of the "Peace Ship"-two ventures which had little to do with the turn-outs of one million...
...electioneering on the major issue of unemployment, the Labor Leader, James Ramsay MacDonald, is promising nowadays into many a microphone that if returned to the Prime Ministry, which he held in 1924, he will nationalize coal and related industries, and operate them to provide work at a living wage for the jobless. Meanwhile jaunty David Lloyd George, the Welsh Wizard of Liberalism, waves his empty silk hat and promises (TIME, March 25) to conjure out of it enough borrowed money to keep all the unemployed busy on road building and public works for five years. The steady-going fellow with...
Brown's second speaker, Kingston, stresses the innovations brought about by advertising, which, in addition, raises the standard of living. P. J. W. Bove '29 reiterated his teammates' pleas that advertising appeals to the lower emotions; he also proceeded into an investigation to the end that it shifts the wage distribution from place to place...