Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florence Hale, retiring president of N. E. A.: "Teachers should bear their due part in the general public economy program, but they should do so through contribution rather than through salary reduction on the books, lest the years of struggle that have gone into securing teachers a living wage in this country be set at naught...
...home at this price can be sold at $30 a month, making it available to a man with a wage of $2,000 a year. Dealer organizations will be set up in large cities, ready to sell and erect a house in four days. Landscape gardening service will be available. Later perhaps furniture will be offered by General Houses. Because the houses will be of known value it is thought that they will be easily borrowed upon or "turned in" like used cars whenever the owner wishes. The matter of value is considered important by General Houses, which is aware...
...Substitution (38-to-26) of President Hoover's 30-day payless furlough plan for Government employes in place of the 10% wage cut voted earlier...
After three months of bickering the Chicago Orchestral Association and the Chicago Federation of Musicians came to terms last week, ended all threats of the symphony disbanding (TIME, March 14). Swart James C. Petrillo, the Union's hard-fisted president, finally agreed to a minimum weekly wage scale of $75 as against this year's $90; a cut in the number of concerts from 126 to 100. The Orchestra is to have the choice of the number of players over & above a minimum of 87. (This year 97 musicians played under Conductor Frederick August Stock...
...received various references to country gentlemen. An olive growers' association got clippings about the death of Film Actress Olive Thomas. A man who wanted all items on batteries had to weed through stories about arrests for assault and battery. Matters improved after the girls were paid a straight wage instead of piece work...