Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiresome days proposals for railway wage cuts bumped across a long, white-clothed table in Chicago's Palmer House with counterproposals for increased railway work. On one side of the table sat nine railroad presidents representing the management of 210 carriers, hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges. On the other side of the table sat the chiefs of the 21 standard railroad unions, no less hard-pressed to supply employment for their 1,500,000 members. Scattered about the smoky red-paneled room were some 150 other union representatives who made up the Railway Labor Executives' Association...
Press reports yesterday afternoon indicate that China has expressed willingness to accept the peace terms offered by the powers, while Japan has rejected mediation quite definitely. This is only another indication that the Japanese are determined to wage what amounts to war in all but name against the advice and moral convictions of the whole civilized world...
...management upon a more permanent foundation composed of younger men." This contrasted sharply with his attitude last October. Revived was talk of friction between Mr. Farrell and some other members of the Finance Committee (Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan). In May Mr. Farrell denounced the steel industry for wage cutting, called it "a pretty cheap sort of business," but in October his own company cut wages 10%,. Recently there have been rumors of a further cut and Mr. Farrell may have resigned rather than share in the responsibility...
...important. Therefore fathers of Harvard men naturally question the agreement of preaching and practice of Harvard's administrative officials on certain details which vitally affect Harvard's fathers' pocketbooks. Speaking in Metheun on January 14, Henry L. Shattuck, Treasurer of the University contended that public employes should take a wage cut of ten per cent in view of the increased purchasing power of the dollar. He was quoted in part as follows; "What counts is not the number of dollars received but the purchasing power of the dollars. And it is generally admitted that during this depression the purchasing power...
...form of something approximating beatification. The judgment of B. & O. employes on him is: "One square guy!" Many a road used President Willard's "B. & O. Plan" to settle the shopmen's strike of 1922. As they prepared to sit down and thresh out together the first major wage problem since 1916, workers and operators of 249,000 U. S. rail miles felt that if anyone could oil the way to a solution it was Daniel Willard...