Word: wages
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...benefit of weak lines, would be pooled excess earnings from rate increases. Next there was emergency rail aid to be had from the $500,000.000 Reconstruction Finance Corp., the speedy enactment of which by Congress the President called a most urgent matter." Most important of all were temporary wage cuts...
Three eastern railroad executives have accepted the invitation of the Railway Labor Executives Association to negotiate the issues of wage cuts and of employment. Previous attempts at an agreement failed because the representatives of railway labor were unwilling to accept a ten per cent wage cut without a guarantee that the present number of men should continue to be employed...
...buyers. Trained organizers are the only links in this chain which are missing, and which keep the cycle from becoming complete. Only men who have mastered the theory of modern industrial methods are capable of regulating an industry so that it will yield sufficient profits to pay a reasonable wage to the laborers. Today we find few such men, especially in Europe, and those who have charge of the large business corporations cannot make them pay enough to give sufficient wages, hence the employment. The unemployed have no right to ask the busy people of the world to support them...
...investigators, charged that: 1) "slavery in its most hideous form" existed in these camps; 2) workers were flogged with plow lines, beaten with pistol butts to maintain discipline; 3) men were compelled to work up to 18 hr. per day, often without overtime pay; 4) wages ranged from 75? to $2 per day; 5) workers were forced to deal at company commissaries, pay exorbitant prices; 6 ) from each man's weekly wage $4.50 for food, $1 for tent rent, 50? for cook hire were arbitrarily deducted by the contractors...
...Canada and Chicago. Last week the Canadian Board of Conciliation recommended a 10% wage cut for Canada's 27,000 railroad employes. Closely allied with U. S. unions, Canadian labor leaders were bitterly disappointed, declared they would submit the matter to arbitration. In Chicago this week the U. S. Railroad Brotherhoods meet to consider the same question of wages. Unmoved so far by pleas of rail executives, their leaders must ponder the Canadian decision, the Wabash failure...