Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conditions which have caused Boston to be without a full Symphony are quite obvious. Every other prominent orchestra in the country has allowed its members to unionize. In New York the Philharmonic pays its violinists a minimum wage of seventy-five dollars a week; in Detroit but few symphony players receive as little as forty-five, while in Boston many are paid thirty-five dollars. As the men are prevented from unionizing their time is virtually at the mercy of the conductor and the trustees. Overtime pay, for extra work with the orchestra, earned by the more highly salaried musicians...
...been hit or miss. Furthermore, it was brought out that after a neutral member had once decided a case he was never chosen again because he had lost the confidence of the side against whom he had made the decision. The knowledge thus gained in the study of a wage dispute was lost and an inexperienced man was called upon in the next dispute. In this way our labor problems have been solved by men who did not understand their task...
...drawn up what is said to be the first definite declaration of labor relations for a community. The plan embodies the sound principles of collective bargaining, the eight-hour day, non-compulsion in regard to the open and closed shop, and the cost of living as the basis of wage scales. This plan is a most constructive effort to found an industrial cods upon which standard labor decisions may be handed down. It should spread throughout the country and as it does so it will gradually solidify into the needed code of industrial relations. The document of the Cleveland Chamber...
...Plumb Plan gives the railroad workers the absolute power to determine their wage. This fact has been admitted by the New York "Nation", a publication favorable to the Plumb Plan. "The Nation" says that whenever a vote is taken on the Board of Fifteen Directors, the ten members elected by industry can out-vote the five members appointed by the government...
...tolerated, and those other less essential industries. Nor did it suggest any compensation for those men who are forbidden the right to strike. Such compensation must be a part of any code that hopes to succeed. The conference made only the vaguest suggestions pertaining to a fair minimum wage or a test of performance which will insure adequate production for the nation. Naturally many of these questions are to be left to the courts, but it seems highly unfortunate that a conference which included in its personnel many of the best minds of the country on economic questions left Washington...