Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foremost question was the adjustment of wages. Hitherto unskilled labor has been receiving 40?. an hour at the steel mills-$4.80 for a twelve-hour day. On a three-shift instead of a two-shift system, pay would be $3.20 for eight hours. It is improbable that the steel mills could secure workers at that wage. Hence, it was considered necessary to increase hourly wages at the same time that the working day was cut. After a meeting of the directors of the Iron and Steel Institute, Judge Elbert H. Gary, its President (also Chairman of the U. S. Steel...
Said James S. Peters of Manchester, Ga., President of the Georgia Bankers' Association: " Wages must necessarily increase to par with those of the North and East, with proper allowance for the difference in the cost of living. . . . The emigration will continue until the oversupply either brings down the wage level in the North and East, or the undersupply here justifies an increase...
...City hold many thoughts ? some have ideas for pleasure, some have plans for profit, some have inscrutable designs. It was so with the meeting of anthracite operators and miners, which resumed its Conference there after a week's adjournment. The miners had made eleven demands for a new wage-and-working-conditions contract to supersede the present contract expiring on August 31. Four of the miners' demands ? lesser ones ? were agreed on. The first of the remaining seven demands brought disagreement and an end to the Conference...
Next morning the Conference met again. Neither side would yield. The miners again proposed adjournment, sine die. The operators proposed that the miners accept either a renewal of the present wage contract till April 1, 1925, with such additions as had already been agreed on, or an agreement that there would be no strike on September 1, and that the questions of the check-off and of a 20% raise in wages be settled by arbitration. The miners refused. At the suggestion of the operators the Conference adjourned ? to meet again at the call of the Secretary if either...
...International Labor Bureau of the League of Nations issued invitations for an experts' meeting to ex amine the question of employment of mutilated soldiers. It was said that out of 10,000,000 War-maimed 8,000,-000 are potential wage earners. The delegates invited are chiefs of Government Administrations dealing with problems connected with wounded ex-soldiers. France immediately refused the invitation " owing to the present international situation...