Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden expansion of certain war industries made it necessary for them to get labor at any wage. This caused a vast shifting of our labor force everywhere. It occasioned an apparent dearth in all other industries and they began bidding against one another for the remaining supply. Only those industries that could pay the highest wages could get labor. Farmers lost out in this competition and the supply of farm labor was greatly reduced. Domestic service suffered a similar depletion. Even the schools were robbed of some of their pupils. The unusual demand for labor also drew into industry multitudes...
There is little probability that the threats of railroad strike will materialize--First, because the Union leaders are too astute politicians to call a strike on account of the 12 percent wage reduction that went into effect last July by order of the Labor Board, for in doing so the railroad unions would not only antagonize the government, but would turn entire public sentiment against them, everybody realizing that the 12 percent from the high wages established during the war was a very small reduction. Second, because railroad employees cannot, under the law, strike on a mere suggestion...
...conservatism rather than to encourage independent thinking is balanced by the assumption in many academic circles that the movement is "merely a subordinate branch of radical activities." The result is a deadlock and failure to make available facilities of the colleges which might rapidly advance the intellectual training for wage-earners. "However," says Mr. Feis, "the fundamental bent . . . is, in my opinion, toward cooperation...
...knowledge among persons whose opportunities to acquire education are pitifully limited, the cooperation of the colleges will be assured. Some have already evinced their readiness to aid. It is inconceivable that an American college would refuse any practicable assistance to students desiring self-improvement because they come from among wage-earners. --New York Evening Post...
...What is a fair wage, and what the content of a fair day's work, were, perhaps, the most vital subjects for dispute. These are many times left to some crude method of bargaining, where the solution is more a matter of erratic opinion than fact, or merely the result of blustering intimidation. Therefore, immediately our plan of representation was adopted, we set out, through the General Committee, to determine a sound and fair basis of wage. This committee drew up a scale of rates for hourly workers, and a list of basic rates for piece-workers, consistent with...