Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheered. "Vote, vote," they cried, as dozens sought to obtain the floor. A vote it wasng the ordination of women as local preachers, but denying them full ecclesiastical privileges, chief of which is membership in a district "conference." Such membership entitles one to an appointment which gives a living wage. Dr. Gray's objections to complete feminization were: "The possible refusal of an impassioned woman preacher to accept the responsibility of maternity . . . embarrassing situations ... the delicate and difficult social situation." Said he: "The glory of the Methodist Parsonage has been its sons and daughters. Our sons have sat in Presidents...
...business, you are, though you know it not all of you business women. When you took a taxi to come here, you automatically made a contract with the taxi company, or if in your own car, your contract for your chauffeur's wages was already made The wages of your servants are an index of wage scales. You leave one shop to go to another because you think they have not treated you fairly; they have not delivered the right quality of stuff, or have quoted different prices to different customers. We are, you see, all of us closely tied...
...favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad shopmen, a year ago, to obey an act of Congress which placed the adjustment of their wages in the bands of the Railroad Wage Board and our attorney general declared them rebels against the government if they refused. They undoubtedly thought they were out for a living wage and decent living conditions for their wives and children, but they obeyed. Is being mildly thirsty a better excuse...
...postman cannot vote, he can influence innumerable votes by his daily journeys to the homes of the voters. Mr. New, both as a responsible Cabinet officer and as a public official of unspotted integrity, refuses to countenance any such Treasury raid. But he recognizes that the present average wage of $28.00* per week to his 20,000† postal employees is too small. Therefore he proposes to raise $43,000,000 from increased postal rates, of which $30,000,000 shall come from parcels post, $5,000,000 from second class mail, and the balance from third and fourth class...
Labor Conditions. On the whole, working men were better housed and better clothed than their comrades in England. During his many visits to industrial centres he had frequently inquired how the well-being of the wage-earner had been achieved. He always received one answer: "Well, we 'believe in keeping a big share of the home market for our own people." Turning to J. R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal, he urged the Government to take care of the working people and to see if there were not something which it could learn from...