Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Labor leaders are of the opinion that the wage increase was promulgated at this time in order to forestall the textile strike which has been brewing in the New England mill towns for several months...
...first of the long expected wage increases in the textile industry was announced by the American Woolen Company, which has granted a 12½% increase to all workers, the new scale to take effect on April 30. It will apply to about 20,000 employees...
...been the custom for other textile centers to follow the lead of the American Woolen Company in adjusting wage scales, so that a gen- eral rise in wages is predicted for the entire New England district...
...cost of living among wage earners' families was 57% higher in February, 1923, than Industrial in July, 1914. -(National Industry Conference Board...
...musicians-the actual workers-will divide among themselves the deficit. They will no longer permit the rich and aloof to lose money on orchestras. The fiddlers and trombonists themselves will take over this exalted function as their just and well-earned due. Will they be content to remain wage-slaves at union rates? Not they. They will divide the box office receipts among themselves, and the fact that such a division will make mighty small wages for them will merely in- crease their elation. Beneath this surface of madness, as the critic of The New York Times pointed out last...