Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winnings. Organized contractors (manufacturers) who employ only union labor, agreed to a 40-hour, five-day week. The union agreed to hold in abeyance for a year its demand for wage increases, unemployment insurance. Abolition of sweatshops, prime object of the strike, seemed assured when wholesalers signed a three-months agreement to buy only from organized contractors and out-of-town union shops...
Miss Pidgeon found that the average median* wage of girls surveyed was $12 per week. Only 7% earned as high as $18 per week, while 25% earned less than $10. Chain-store girls earn about one-half of what women do in other industries. One girl out of four was under 18, only a very few over 25. Only one girl out of ten lived away from home on her earnings...
Demands of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: abolition of 1,500 "sweatshops"; 10% wage increase; a 40-hour, five-day week; an impartial commission to settle disputes; unemployment insurance. Well heeled was the Union for this walkout; last summer it sold $250,000 worth of 5% strike bonds...
...their entire production to wholesale jobbers. These contractors accuse the jobbers of driving such sharp bargains, of "jewing" prices down so low, that only by sweatshop methods can the little manufacturers meet the stiff competition. They profess sympathy with their.striking employes but claim they cannot accede to their wage and time demands until the jobbers agree to cease patronizing and encouraging sweatshop contractors. The jobbers retort that they are bound to seek the best possible prices, sweatshops or no sweatshops, to induce the public...
...ground that they have had woefully little practice in a proper handling of the press. But it is far more difficult to explain away both their lack of routine courtesy and their egregious want of intelligent self-interest in falling to reply to the proposal of the State Minimum Wage Board when the matter was so near settlement two years...