Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national record has been one of forward-looking Republicanism. He supported every war measure and was a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. He led the fight for the return of the American troops sent to Siberia. He fathered laws for the amelioration of wage conditions among Federal employees. He has been one of the leading opponents of the League of Nations, and was the only man in the nation with the courage to follow President in his tour of the country and present the arguments against the League...
...have the problems of our schools; educational conditions throughout the stability of the country depends on the educational system. Three hundred thousand men and women are teaching without certificates. Our best teachers are leaving their positions in order to earn a living wage. We must look over our provisions for teaching and must pay our teachers and professors better wages...
...must not have been won in vain. They must serve as the instruments and the inspiration for a greater and nobler freedom for all mankind. Autocratic, political and corporate industrial influences in our country have sought, and are seeking, to infringe upon and limit the fundamental rights of the wage-earners guaranteed by the constitution of the United States. Powerful forces are seeking more and more aggressively to deny to wage-earners their right to cease work. Labor denounces these efforts as vicious and destructive of the most precious liberties of our people...
...world needs things for use and that standards of life can improve only as production for use and consumation increases. Labor is anxious to work out better methods for industry and demands it be assured that increased productivity will be used for service and not alone for profits. Wage-earners aspire to be something more than numbers on the books of an industrial plant, something more than attendants of a machine, something more than cogs in an industrial system dominated by machinery owned and operated for profit alone. The workers insist upon being masters of themselves. Labor understands fully that...
...Boston musical public was not willing to consider voluntarily the inadequacy of a snow shoveller's wage to satisfy a cultured musician, despite the fact that they were gradually losing many of their most accomplished artists, and in consequence their claim to having the best orchestra in the country, the facts needed to be brought to their attention in a more definite manner...