Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make more jobs the "big four" railway brotherhoods suggested that the roads shift employment from an eight to a six-hour basis but without any wage reductions. Declared Lawrence Aloysius Downs, president of Illinois Central: "This is a mighty poor time to ask any such thing. The roads have no money to pay additional salaries...
...eventually to develop Liberia into a market for American goods. As means of transportation in the country are few, the company is building roads between its various posts. The industry in general is of greatest economic value as it provides employment for many of the inhabitants at a wage which, although small, is greater than they could otherwise command. The employees live in company huts, and plans are being made for the construction of model, sanitary towns where the natives for the first time will have hospitals, clean water supply, and sanitary means of sewage disposal. Native customs are being...
...turn. Where formerly labor had to contend with definite and sometimes brutal antagonism, now, according to Green, this antagonism is more subtle sometimes taking the form of rival or "company" unions, mands of the unions have strangled the New England textile industry in the face of low wage competition from the South, Green replied that the textile business was economically unsound at the time and that unorganized labor conditions in the South brought about wage cutting, price slashing and unfair competition. The payment of low wages, he pointed out, failed to revive the industry...
...President passed on to "what we nowadays call technological unemployment"?industrial workers displaced by scientific inventions and labor saving devices. He argued that Labor should welcome these changes because it gained "through increase of wage or reduction of cost of living or shortened hours...
...Headline writers extracted from the Ford book chiefly its prediction that 20 years hence the workman's wage will be $27 per day, ignored the attached qualification "provided the leaders of industry actually lead...