Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief among the English sources of revenue is salt; but unfortunately it is a no less important part of Indian diet. In choosing the manufacture of salt as the starting point of his campaign, Gandhi enlisted the sympathies of India's masses whose average wage of three cents a day renders government Salt prices almost prohibitive. Religion is deeply rooted in India's soil; by investing his pilgrimage with religious fervor, Gandhi makes further universal appeal...
...years ago, the U. M. W. grew to be the largest single unit in the American Federation of Labor. Coal operators bowed to its will, accepted its working and wage contracts. It negotiated the famed Jacksonville agreement (1924) for high wages in the bituminous fields. When it so much as threatened a strike, people shivered at the prospect of a coal shortage. At the peak of his power President Lewis, on a $12,000 per year salary, ruled some 500,000 Union miners...
Then coal mining fell upon evil days. The industry was economically depressed. Two miners tried to divide the work of one. When the Jacksonville agreement lapsed and the operators refused to renew it, President Lewis opposed any wage reduction, kept Union miners out of work. Strikes were called only to fail in human misery and destitution (TIME, Nov. 28, 1927 et seq.). Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant...
Although the directors of both Bethlehem and Youngstown proceeded to approve the deal, 66% of Youngstown stockholders must agree to it. To prevent this, Mr. Eaton traveled from Cleveland to Youngstown. rented a room in a hotel, announced: "We are prepared to wage one of the greatest battles for proxies in the history of the State. Youngstown Sheet & Tube will never merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp...
Then finally, those of us who in college became interested in seeing the status of laborers rise and the policy of employers become more human are disgusted with the University's futile attempts to justify its miserly wages. Even if they are technically above the minimum level, still it was weeks after the lay-off, and after the announcements of the Wage Commission's decree and then of the reorganization at Widener that some bright person thought of this defense. But more important than the lateness of the excuse is the fact that it is simply not convincing. We expected...