Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union Rejects Wage Slash...
...regular wages of the plasterers as regulated by the union are $13 per day, so that they were not permitted to accept a 15 per cent cut from that figure without its consent; all questions of wage level are decided by the union at periodic executive meetings...
Just as dawn broke the resolution passed, was sent to the Württemberg State Diet with an urgent request that it be brought at once before the Reichstag in Berlin. The International Labor Office figures the income of the average Berlin wage earner at 3,364 marks...
...Such cases as tumor of the brain, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, hypertrophy of the prostate of Raynaud's disease may demand consultation with specialists or their technical services. . . . But to the wage earner who is attempting, with his family, to subsist on $30 a week, a pain in the epigastrium is just cramps and not allergic abdominal migraine...
...facts in the Berkman case are too well known to repeat, but it seems that anyone who is acquainted with them must realize that Miss Berkman is being made an example of, as a warning to those who might in the future have spirit enough to protest a wage...