Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...element of Depression, wage cuts, past and future, continued last week to engage the perplexed attention of businessmen throughout the land. During March 335 pay reductions averaging 10% and affecting 43,500 workers were reported to the U. S. Labor Department as compared with 26 cuts in the same month last year. March also failed to show any general increase in employment over February though manufacturing industries did hire about 1% more workers. In Manhattan industrialists gathered secretly to discuss the "advisability" of "wage adjustments," departed with the feeling that "moderate reductions" were inevitable. The textile, steel and oil industries...
...prohibit their joining a labor union on pain of dismissal. Against him, he said, were pending 121 court injunctions to bar him from unionizing in West Virginia coal fields. Said he: "These people live under a state of terrorism. This is forced labor, . . . We want work at an American wage or unemployment insurance benefits on an American standard...
Government would promptly put through Congress an amnesty bill and restore to Cuba's people the Constitutional rights which Dictator Machado suspended last autumn. Fascist Medicine- As an antidote to Italian business depression Dictator Mussolini prescribed lowered wages and lowered prices three months ago (TIME, Dec. 1). Fortnight ago came the first strike by Italian workmen in many years (TIME, April 6). Last week Dictator Mussolini decided that his patient had taken enough anti-depression medicine. "We have reached a limit [in wage cuting]," declared II Duce at Rome, "beyond which it is impossible to go without running into...
...believe that there should be no racial discrimination at all - either socially or in the selection of men for administrative posts - even the highest." As Viceroy the Earl will receive $93,440 yearly or $1,797 per week; but in Karachi last week Mr. Gandhi said that this wage must ultimately be reduced to not more than $50 weekly...
...Under Capitalism they are doomed to exploitation and oppression. The door to better things is closed to the American worker by his wage scale. In Russia, where private profit is being progressively abolished, there will be no limit to the benefits the worker may receive.* When the Negro realizes the superiority of that system he is bound to accept its tenets...