Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Osaka and Kobe cotton mills of the great Kanegafuchi Company, directors told workers' delegates last week that they must accept a 20% wage cut because of the falling price of cotton goods. "Why is it then," asked a blunt workers' delegate, "that you continue to pay 35% dividends? Why have you just voted your chairman, Mr. Sanji Muto, a bonus...
...testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on the extent of unemployment. Mr. Green is a conservative labor leader not given to dramatic exaggeration. What he said caused Senators to sit up and pay sharp attention. A. F. of L. statistics: 3,700,000 jobless in February; a billion-dollar wage loss since Jan. 1; one worker out of every four looking for a job. Declared Mr. Green...
...small bronze goddess, appears. She is the symbol of superiority among undergraduates and her possession is bitterly disputed between the odd and even numbered classes. To the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota football game each year goes the coveted "Little Brown Jug.'' Illinois and Ohio State wage their annual game for a turtle called "Illlibuck." Columbia sophomores customarily attempt to acquire living mementos-the Freshman class officers; their efforts in the past have resulted in public riots in Manhattan's crowded Columbus Circle, chases in fleets of taxicabs, bewildered freshmen spending enforced weekends in the suburbs. Yale...
...added: "What is probably more significant is that during our task of adjusting wages to secure uniformity* we found it necessary to substantially increase the minimum wage at our Antwerp factory. . . . The response of the worker was almost immediate and was displayed by a reduction of the minute costs. . . . In Denmark, where we pay the highest wages in Europe, we find the lowest unit costs...
...Austin will appear, is already being advertised as a cocky little bantam, has a bantam rooster trademark. *The International Labor Office adjoining the League of Nations in Geneva, is preparing for Mr. Ford a report which will enable him to pay his workman in a given European country a wage sufficient to buy in that country what a Ford worker in Detroit can buy with his wage...