Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is real need for revision of salaries in the postal service it is to provide a wage differential for those employes serving in post offices located in the large cities and industrial centres. There is no justification for increasing salaries to apply to all offices when the need for such increases does not apply to a large number of the offices...
...union walk-out of power station workers of the Great Western and London Electric Railways paralyzed the London subway system. The strike was said to have been inspired by Communists, who advised the men to take direct action, independently of their unions, in demanding an increased wage...
...doorboy at an Illinois coal mine. At 32, he had fought and won one of the greatest labor battles that the U. S. has ever witnessed, the battle for a "living wage." The fight which he won was the turning point in the coal mine labor struggle. Until 1902, the mine operators had had decidedly the upper hand. Since then, mine labor has steadily but surely taken the dominating position...
...proposal that the President's term end at his party's defeat. This leader of the strong Radical Party also recently outlined his political beliefs. "The corner stone of all fiscal reform is the income tax." "The formula for the future is cooperative production." "I cannot admit that the wage-contract represents the final form of labor bargain." The lengths to which the party may go is suggested by the threat of a leading member who said. "If I am returned to the Chamber, comrades, I shall enter it with my pockets full of grenades...
...broken promises and repudiated pledges. . . . There never was such a flagrant betrayal of party promises, such a complete failure to solve present-day problems. . . . Not only have they attempted to increase the cost of living . . . but this Ad ministration has given encouragement to every effort to reduce the wages of the wage-earner and to in crease the profits of the conscience less gouger...