Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue in the coal strike beginning at midnight tonight is chiefly one of wages. The workers demand an increase of 20 percent for contract labor while the operators want a change in the other direction. Each party has stood firmly by its original position, but for two reasons the great responsibility for the strike seems to go to the operators. They have refused to meet the United Mine Workers in a conference, as contracted for in their present wage agreement, and they have obtained and injunction against the Federal Trade Commission restraining it form investigation...
...least, so it would appear on the surface. Actually, however, the present situation is the outgrowth of a long series of events starting in 1917, when the operators of mines were forced to raise the wages in order to hold the laborers from other more profitable "war work". But the wage scale of 1917 was granted only for the duration of the war; accordingly, in September, 1919, delegates of the miners from the various fields declared the war scale at an end and demanded an increase of sixty percent in wages, shorter hours, and a five day week. The refusal...
...West Virginia, even with perfect transportation, cannot produce more than sixty percent of the fuel needed. The other fields must be worked as well. And the union miners, knowing this, insist that in the new wage contract due on the first of April, they at least retain the 1920 scale; and they are asking even a further increase. The president of the United Mine Workers of America claims that the operators are trying to crush the miners, and that they demand higher prices for coal using the strike as an excuse. He has consequently called a strike for the first...
Tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock Mr. C. E. Stevens, General Manager of the Bedeaux Point System, will speak on "The Point System of Wage Payment...
...present there is a pressing need throughout the country for men with culture, breeding, and intellectual training. Churches all over the country are willing to pay a living wage, and more too, to get the right kind of men". Dr. Fosdick also pointed out that the minister of the future would be "up and coming" and would be on a par with men in the other professions...