Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revive, as it is reviving now, and unemployment vanishes, the demand for labor is too keen, and the opportunities of quick profits are too tempting to hazard the cost and wastefulness of strikes. It is then more feasible to admit unionism, even the closed shop, and to grant wage increases commensurate with the rise in prices...
...recent general wage advance in the textile industry is a case in point. As business continues to improve wage scales will rise in other basic industries. Political experts in the daily press declare that the leaders of both major parties are too shrewd and practical to make class conflict an issue in election campaigns. The probability of alienating the 5,000,000 organized labor votes in the country is too great...
...textile centers which have already granted the wage advances include Fall River, Lawrence, Lowell, New Bedford, Passaic, Manchester, Providence, Pawtucket...
...Wage increases already granted to 50,000 woolen mill operatives in New England were followed by advances of 12½% to some 25,000 cotton mill workers. These advances marked the first action by the cotton manufacturing interests to meet the higher wage levels set by the woolen mills throughout all the northern textile centers. When the general advance in wages in New England is completed it will affect about 250,000 workers...
...laborers are receiving funds from their sympathizers and part of the clergy are encouraging them to hold out for their increased wage demand. A proposal to settle the dispute by the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee is being submitted to the farmers...