Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Iron Workers of America. This organization has decided to make a demand upon owners of plants, now idle, to turn them over to the workers so they may demonstrate the value of such action. This demand is the result of wide unemployment and wage reductions among the metal workers, which according to Mr. Kelly is without reason...
From North Carolina comes the news that this experiment is actually taking place in a large Iron Works and Supply Company. During a meeting called to discuss a disagreement over a twenty percent wage reduction, one of the employes suggested that the plant be managed by the workers and the profits distributed among them. The suggestion was accepted by the company and the experiment has begun...
...should like to say a few words about the worker's attitude. You prate about greater production for more wages. The worker has heard that old gag until it wearies him. Let me give an instance. In a certain corporation the piece work system is used. The prices are so not that the worker has to turn out a larger quantity of work to make a fair wage. This corporation is always clamoring for greater production. If a worker does turn out more than his average production his prices are cut so that he must maintain the greater production...
...After the period of depression in 1893, wages were so reduced that public opinion demanded a change; the result was the formation of wage administration boards, presided over by state officials, and consisting of three or four representatives each from the employers and the employees. The awards granted were in variably increases for the workers. In 1901 in New South Wales, a compulsory arbitration commission was formed; which soon was so congested with complaints and cases, that subsidiary boards were formed, and later a federal arbitration board, presided over by a federal High Court judge...
...mailed to him and his "blue books" will be examined and graded at Marine headquarters and mailed back to him. From architecture and advertising down to plumbing and steam-fitting, the courses are designed for the purpose of fitting the marine for some advantageous employment as a non-military wage-earner in his later years...