Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women, undergraduates of the University of Washington. They were vigorously and visibly protesting against the enforced resignation of President Henry Suzzallo, who, the young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor Hartley. Technical cause for the rift was a disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington in a torchlit blaze of personal glory. Last week...
...question of employment and general wage scales at Harvard, which has been a source of discomfort to the University during the year, will be the subject of a study to be begun in October, it was announced last night at University Hall...
...setting up the U. S. Board of Mediation to settle disputes between carriers and brotherhoods, and providing that each side should be free to designate its agents by "collective action, without interference, influence or coercion by either party over the self-organization of the other." In 1927 a wage dispute arose between the Texas & New Orleans R. R. (a Southern Pacific subsidiary) and the Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks. When the Brotherhood began to choose its representatives to appear before the Board of Mediation, the railroad organized a company union, attempted to inveigle Brotherhood men into it. On the ground...
...most cases, quite true. But where is that epigrammarian who will say: living is earning a living? Or where is that educator who will say: we are speculating with amorphous clay which will not come to life until we give it the power to earn a daily wage? To consider the college years as a pleasant pre-natal period before the first plunge into the outer air is as useless as to consider life merely as the brief interlude before an immortality. The same elements exist in college that exist in the earning weld...
...megalomania which has made them feel themselves potential General Electric companies, American Telephone & Telegraph companies and United States Steel corporations. ... In the average American community there are not enough people who will buy sufficient books to make his [the bookseller's] volume big enough to give him a living wage...