Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cutting out men's fashionable suits. Now, under the quota law, they come no more-or at least not in sufficient numbers to meet the demands of the purveyors of fine suitings. Young Americans cannot or will not serve as apprentice cutters. The ranks of experts grow thin. Wage demands go up. Hence the high cost of fashion...
Representatives of Pennsylvania R. R.'s employes last week met with representatives of their employers and discussed, amicably, a wage increase. Result: the Pennsylvania swelled its payroll by about $4,000,000 per annum, some 43,000 employes benefiting. The bulk of the raises went to shop, maintenance-of-way and structural department employes. Prosperous was the railroad month of December, 1928. Forty-six Class I railroads reported an increase in net operating income of 67.3% over December 1927- $47,367,000 compared...
...machines. 13,000,000 radio sets in the last ten years. There were 24,700,000 pupils in U. S. public schools, 767,000 in U. S. colleges. More than $320,000,000,000 was deposited in U. S. banks. Since 1880 U. S. population has doubled. U. S. wage earners have trebled, U. S. wealth has increased sevenfold. At least one-third of the present output of U. S. factories consists of products that were unknown 50 years...
...passing the timbrel each year for money irks a good manager. President Osborn declared that he was going to stop it. He needed $8,000,000 more endowment. If he did not get it, forthwith he would dismiss 35 employes, suspend others, set a stationary wage scale, cut off trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content...
Economics 6b, dealing with labor legislation and social insurance is to be given by Professor C. E. Persons of Boston University. It includes an introductory discussion of the historical legislation in England and the United States; the development of labor codes; governmental intervention in strikes; minimum wage legislation; the general problem of social insurance; European and American investigation and legislation relating to workmen's compensation; sickness and unemployment insurance; and old age pensions...