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Word: wages (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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University Hall officials confirmed in a written contract yesterday the preferential shop and higher wage agreement, conceded kitchen workers two weeks ago to avert a general strike in the dinings halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNED CONTRACT AGREES ON TERMS FOR DINING HALLS | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...agreeing to hire all new employees through the A. F. of L. and by urging all non-affiliated laborers to join Locals 186 and 112, the university has paved the way for an all-union shop in the kitchens. As a further concession wage increases, which amount to as much as $2 a week in the case of waitresses, have been successfully agreed upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNED CONTRACT AGREES ON TERMS FOR DINING HALLS | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...worked for the Hearst papers for 8 years and never got a squarer deal. ... I was a sap for leaving him. He may never have given a leg man a decent wage, but when it came to hiring advertising men, he had the knack of getting some real producers and he paid them well. .... I only wish I were working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Catholics have given long and consistent support to sound social legislation on fundamental questions like the minimum wage, the right of labor to organize and to bargain collectively, relief of the aged, housing and many others. The insinuation that Catholics have not been "for" anything, is obviously untrue and unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...future, only continued moderation from both parties can make this agreement the foundation of a lasting structure. Conceivably, if standards of living continue to rise in the next few years, the Union will be justified in asking further wage increases;--but it must be remembered that every increase will mean either drastic restriction of Temporary Student Employment, or increased dining hall prices, or both. Certainly if the Social Security law is not amended to include educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICY OF APPEASEMENT | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

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