Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between President Samuel Pursglove of Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. (a $23,000,000 concern operating seven mines at present and second in the Area only to Pittsburgh Coal Co.) and United Mine Workers officials on June 18. United Mine Workers had already agreed with two smaller companies on a wage scale of 58? a ton for loading machine-mined coal, 78? a ton for "picked" coal. $4.80 for day work. Upshot of Pittsburgh Terminal's conference with the union was that last week the company offered work to union miners for the first time in four years. United representatives...
...many days of 6 hr. each must 28 men work to earn $1,209.60 on a wage of 20¢ per hr. per person...
Policy. When Depression hit the roads they had a choice of two policies: 1) drastic retrenchment, including wage cuts; 2) normal operation. At President Hoover's suggestion they followed Policy No. 2 "as long as it could be justified." As the slump continued "it became evident that the policy above stated had failed" to restore prosperity. Hence adjustments were now imperative...
...Wages. The roads, though laying off "many thousands" of workers, have maintained basic wage scales, as promised President Hoover. Any move to reduce wages would require "the long procedure of conference and arbitration" under the Railway Labor Act. The results of such negotiations would be too belated to help the carriers in their present emergency...
...While all these rumors of wage reductions are rampant there isn't a chance of buying power creeping out from under the bed."?Gilbert Tennent Hodges, oldtime New York SMI man, past president of the Federation who was elected again last week...