Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coal Commission has conferred with the mine operators and is to meet Mr. Lewis soon. The wage agreement of the anthracite miners expires on August 31. Already the district boards of anthracite miners have called a convention at Scranton, Pa., on June 26, to formulate the demands they will make at that time...
Seventy cents an hour was the minimum wage fixed by the U. S. Railroad Labor Board for shopmen: machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, electricians, sheet metal workers, carmen...
Secretary of Labor Davis, in a report read before a meeting of the Cabinet, confirmed Judge Gary's allegation of a shortage. " Today unemployment has been reduced to a minimum, wages everywhere are rising. During the last few months, there have been wage increases in all of the 43 industries reported to the Bureau of Labor. . . . It is inevitable that there should be agitation for the lifting of immigration restrictions." The report is said to have convinced the President that a labor shortage exists, although Secretary Davis upheld the 3% law with certain modifications...
With the final notes of the season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra technically ceased to exist. The musicians would not renew their contracts because the trustees refused a wage increase. They demanded $67.50 per week instead of $60. In 1916, they received...
...reaction of the general public to the Minimum Wage decision see pages...