Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James C. Couzens, progressive ex-Mayor of Detroit and suc- cessor to Mr. Newberry, declared in a public memorandum that demagogues throughout the country are magnifying the difficulties under which railways are operating. The public is being offered the choice of wage reductions for railway men or increased railway tariffs. Reduction of wages is an obvious saving for railway executives to suggest. " Why," suggested the Senator, " don't they do a little brain work to produce the necessary saving by increased railroad efficiency...
...movement for a wage advance to textile operatives in New England (of whom there are over 300,000) gathered impetus by the formal demand of the Fall River Textile Council for an increase of 15% in wages to become effective April 2. Fall River has 36,000 workers employed in 111 textile mills. About half of these workers belong to the Textile Council and about half to the United Textile Workers, who asked for a 29% increase a few weeks...
...that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River, who have demanded a 29% wage increase, to offset the cut of 22½% made in January, 1921. This suggestion of renewed labor difficulties comes rather early in the current business cycle-it will be interesting to note whether similar strikes for increased wages will be a feature of the spring months, which are seasonably most...
...fundamental change in the modern industrial world is concerned," says Mr. Gompers, " the wage-earners need not look for reconstruction or reconstitution through the establishment of labor banks and particularly through the establishment of labor banks under existing laws. Labor banks must conform to banking laws and these laws themselves constitute an insuperable bar to any but the most modest and limited reforms...
...weapon, Mr. Gompers warned labor to beware of capitalistic and reactionary propaganda which would persuade the laboring man that co-operative labor banks may do away with the need for strikes. "The necessity for the strike will cease," he says, " only when there are no longer conditions imposed upon wage earners against their will and to which they cannot agree...