Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first wage earner to occupy the post of Chairman of the Conservative Council," boasted "Old Gwilym" afterwards. "And I consider this fact an indication of the democratic tendency of the Conservative Party nowadays...
...Administration of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Law", Professor Persons, Harvard...
Doctors consider the $15 a day too low an income. The individual physician is entitled, wrote Dr. J. Lewis Webb of Chicago to Clinical Medicine & Surgery to at least a laborer's wage of $125 monthly ($4 daily). That makes $1,500 a year. Besides that he should receive at least 15% interest, or $6,750 yearly on the $45,000 which fairly represents the money he spent for his education and training and the time and wages he lost while learning. $1,500 in professional wages, plus $6,750 interest on educational investment, makes $8,250 yearly...
...Minimum Wage Legislation", Professor Persons, Harvard...
Coincident with copper's rise came a 5% wage increase for workers in Anaconda, Phelps-Dodge and other copper companies in Arizona, Utah. Also, Anaconda raised its dividend rate from $6 to $7?Anaconda's third dividend rise in the past year...