Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the bills bearing Governor Smith's written approval is a minimum wage act and an act limiting woman labor to 48 hours a week. These bills, in their present form, are being opposed by the National Woman's Party...
...minds of the citizens. The sausage supply is gravely menaced by the strike of the livestock skinners in Berlin. Thirty-seven sausage and meat-canning factories are idle, and fear is expressed that the strike may lead to the closing of no less than 1,000 plants. A wage dispute is at the seat of the trouble...
...LOVE-Pola Negri succeeds in occasionally vivifying a typical sirenade of Liane, the toast of the boulevards, whose specialty is driving lover after lover to ruin, death, or the booby-hatch. After tenting on the old vamp ground unrepentantly, through numerous reels, she discovers sin's ultimate wage to be strangulation and is murdered by ex-lover No. 19 in the middle of a carnival. A German film with the usual admirable mass-effects...
...Labor Information, weekly publication of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations, states that within the last few months a number of workers' organizations, wishing to contribute to Italy's financial reconstruction, are working one hour overtime each day and handing over the extra wage to the State...
...committee be appointed from the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church to help reorganize the churches of Russia. The Soviet government has found in the social creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America the following principles: Protection of the worker from forced unemployment, old age pensions, minimum wage, reduction of hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and the most equitable division of the product of industry which can be devised. (This creed was adopted by the Methodists...