Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ramsay MacDonald resigned as Laborite Prime Minister and headed a coalition cabinet. France and New York arranged $400,000,000 more credit and that was exhausted while Chancellor Snowden was making drastic efforts to balance the budget. Last week the British Atlantic Fleet mutinied in protest at their prospective wage cut (see p. 20) and next day London learned that Britain's gold reserves were down to ?59,742,000. Scot MacDonald rushed up to London and summoned the House of Lords (Commons were already sitting) to an emergency session...
...short, haven't you some sort of job that will enable a youngster to keep on in school instead of entering the already overcrowded ranks of wage-earners? A telephone call to any of the colleges in and around Boston will put you in touch with somebody who can give you what you need. --Boston Herald...
...part of your resolution I desire to make it perfectly clear to you, however, that I shall not under any circumstances carry out the above intention [resignation from the Commons] while it involves desertion of duty which I consider to be imperative to protect the great masses of wage earners...
Into the bonds of the railroad companies has poured a torrent of funds seeking, above all else, security of principal. Capitalists, wage-earners, fiduciary trustees and savings banks alike have found in rail bonds a safe haven for their money and a fair return thereon. But the Depression of today by its length and severity has shattered the standards of other times, undermined the confidence of generations. Quick cause for this undermining came when the railroads appealed en masse last winter to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15% increase in freight rates, on the ground that unless this...
...Council listed its social and industrial recommendations: abolition of child labor; protection of women in industry; abatement of poverty; protection of all from occupational diseases and enforced unemployment; old age pensions; rights of employer and employe alike to organize; a living wage. In 1929 it said: ''[The churches] have called attention to persistent and serious unemployment, to the economic insecurity of old age among the workers, and to low standards of income and therefore of living in large sections of the population. ... All are involved in responsibility for these evils...