Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Lady Astor to the Government Benches: "You've got to tell the people of this country that if they want a living wage, they've got to work for it." Retorted the Speaker: "We should get along better if the Honorable Member would realize that her remarks in this House should be addressed to .the Chair. . . . She seems to take a long time to realize this." Replied her ladyship: "I'm always afraid of being rude." Remarked the Speaker: "That's the reason for the rule...
Briefly, Mr. George's theory seems to be one of developing social responsibility. A thief may steal from an honest property-holder without a second thought, but when all the thieves form a little community of wage-earners within Mr. George's series of enclosures, the point of view changes with surprising swiftness. The enterprising burglar degenerates into the commonplace crook, and the newcomer's statement of "Ladies and gentlemen. I have come to live with you; I am a pick-pocket!" is received with coolness, not to say suspicion...
Comparatively little notice was attracted by a conference of soft coal miners and operators at Jacksonville. There might have been a major strike if there had been a disagreement. Instead a contract was signed extending the present wage scale and all other conditions for three years from the expiration of the present contract on April 1. The miners wished a four-year extension, but the operators insisted on a three-year term in order that the next agreement might not be made in a Presidential year when all politicians are looking for the miner vote. After ten days of unostentatious...
...employers agreed to grant the daily wage increase of 54? and to guarantee a minimum weekly wage. The terms of the agreement were complicated, however, by the insertion of a clause deferring payment of half the wage increase until June; consequently it was some days before a vote could be obtained from the men accepting the recommendations of their representatives...
Hardly had the railway strike been settled (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.) than the dockers' section of the Transport Workers' Union went on strike for a 43-cent daily wage increase. More than 110,000 men were idle; 1,000,000 more were expected to be thrown voluntarily out of work if the strike is allowed to get well under...