Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that labor eventually must be satisfied in the only way possible. The growth of the A. F. of L. shows how the movement has spread. The workers are no longer content under the open shop system with its bad working conditions, payment of lower than a standard of living wage, and its ineffective collective bargaining...
...union. There have been workingmen's associations in America since the beginning of the industrial era long before the Civil War. That they have earned an important place in our social organization is unquestioned; the abolition of chattel slavery in the South found its parallel in the relief of wage slavery in the North. But their quest for wholesome working conditions and a living wage has led the unions to extremes. There have been occasions, as Elbert Hubbard remarked, when the workman was forced either to "carry a union card to take out an accident policy." Modern methods are perhaps...
...always charge for their product as much as the public need will stand; laborers will likewise strive to exact from their employers the maximum compensation for their services. Ultimately it is the consumer who pays. If we would preserve American prosperity, we must maintain the only satisfactory compromise between wage slavery and the autocracy of labor,--the open shop. The suppression of individual bargaining would be of inestimable value to the unions; armed with a monopoly of production they would be in a better position to pry further into our national life. But the people at large have had their...
...decision of the chief railroads of the East, one after another, to make reductions in their wage scales shows the results of the slow but resistless trend of economic conditions. In a period of financial depression it is inevitable that wages will drop in the general slump; for without reducing operating expenses, the railroads will not be able to continue business...
...farmer has organized for purely economic reasons in order to guarantee himself a fair wage. The great milling trusts held and still hold the unorganized farmer in their hands. He cannot set the price for his article when he lives alone and is unorganized. Our industrial program includes a state mill and a state bank, both of which have proved very successful. By eliminating the profit of the middleman and the miller we have been able to sell wheat cheaper and pay more for it, and we've broken up the power of the banking and milling interests in North...