Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wage demands affecting 60,000 building trades workers directly, and 55,000 indirectly, were drawn up in accordance with a recent decision of the New York Building Trades Council. The demands call for increases of $1 a day in some crafts and $2 a day in others. Failure to grant the wage increases will mean a strike and tie-up of nearly all construction work in the city...
...Supreme Court has declared the Minimum Wage Law in the District of Columbia unconstitutional by a vote of 5 to 3, one member (Mr. Associate Justice Brandeis) not voting. This sweeping decision threatens the minimum wage laws already established or about to be enacted in several states, including New York, California, Kansas, Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington. It has been generally assumed that if the law is invalid as applied in the District of Columbia similar enactments by state legislatures are also unconstitutional...
...decision of the court delivered by Justice Sutherland held that the District of Columbia's Minimum Wage Law was a price fixing act and as such an abridgment of the right of contract...
Like the decision declaring the Child Labor Law unconstitutional, the minimum wage decision is repugnant to organized labor. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, has already issued a vigorous statement on the subject in which he asserted that a tendency of the court was "to decide against humanity in favor of property...
...good deal of anxiety is evinced in official circles over the railway shopmen's wage dispute. The employers proposed an extensive reduction and, if it is enforced, it is feared that a general strike of railwaymen throughout Britain may ensue...