Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since reading in TIME, Dec. 2, of Henry Ford's announcement that, far from reducing wages, he was ordering a general wage increase throughout his factories, I have been watching for news of other potent manufacturers following suit...
TIME will welcome reports on wage-raising...
Stock companies are often pitiful, struggling organizations. Their managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce in stock productions, he added: "If a phonograph needed operating behind scenes, you wouldn't allow the manager or one of the company to turn it on or off. . . . It had to be done by a union musician at a full week's wage, and he wasn...
Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions...
Under the previous system, or more correctly, lack of system, the graduating members of the student body were ejected upon the actualities of wage earning with no other assistance than a diploma, and individual inclinations. Unless he happened to be especially fortunate in family connections, he was forced to accept the position that chance offered rather than take the time definitely to consider what fields might be most attractive and accessible. The new plan of the omnipotent panacea for this evil, but it does afford a means of eliminating useless hunting and the acceptance of "trial jobs". The statistics...