Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coal strikes come when work-&-wage contracts between operators and miners expire. The present contract for the all-important anthracite fields* lapses Aug. 31. For three hot weeks in Manhattan a Union committee of six led by John Llewellyn Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America struggled in secret session with an operators' committee of six led by William W. Inglis of Glen Alden Coal Co. to negotiate a new agreement. Last week the two committees emerged in friendly fellowship with a new contract for hard-coal mining which each acclaimed as a guarantee of long industrial peace...
When the survey is complete Mr. Ford plans to pay all his workmen throughout the world an "equivalent wage," equivalent not in gold but in what the wage will buy in the place where the worker works. Already there is anxious talk among statesmen that if Mr. Ford's program of "standardized living" goes into effect at his European plants it will provoke a social industrial revolution. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald was said to be on pins & needles lest the Ford survey soon to begin in London and in Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more...
...want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home, but in Poland and Denmark many, many petits bourgeois have none. As for the suggestion that a Polish or Danish factory hand should own an automobile-that was called "fantastic." But the questioners, stubborn, questioned...
...Wage Cuts: "Capitalism's economic crisis involves wage reductions and increased pressure on the workers, which will strengthen the revolutionary movement and increase the influence and authority of the Komintern [also known as the Third International, headquartered at Moscow, which is striving to foment 'The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...Flint, Mich., last fortnight State Troopers bashed striking employes of Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corp. with clubs, arrested 23 men and two women. The strikers said they were angry because of wage reductions. The company maintained that no reductions had been made or contemplated. According to the strike committee, men's wages were cut on June 24 from $1 an hour to 40? and 50? an hour, women's wages in the upholstery department from 65? to 75? an hour to $1.12 and $1.20 per day. According to the company, changes in design and construction...