Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's reputation as to obviate all further discussion. But yesterday at a hearing before the Rules Committee of the Massachusetts legislature the treasurer of the Corporation made known the strange news that in March 1928 the Comptroller was in a position to establish a definite agreement with the Wage Board through the mere sending of a formal letter...
...forth in another column of the CRIMSON, the University had explained the working hours of the women concerned and the Wage Board was in complete agreement with the proposition that the amount of rest time allowed these workers put them essentially on the required hourly rate. A formal letter: of acknowledgement was all that was needed to set the matter at rest for all time. After just having emerged from the mire of publicity which came as a result of the neglect to do this, one can only admire Mr. Shattuck's restraint in his statement, "the College apparently omitted...
...Niland, of East Boston; C.M. Boyle, of Peabody; C.J. Mahoney, of Boston; and W.P. Thore, of Squantum. It is reported that the measure was introduced in the nature of a penalty for the action of the University authorities in discharging women cleaners of Widener after the State Minimum Wage Board had recommended an increase in the women's wages...
...position taken by President Lowell would seem more humorous than anything else. The Boston Post, which published the facts on the front page on January 16, approached the situation from that angle. In his lead, the Post reporter figured out that the two-cents-an-hour increase in wages demanded by the State Minimum Wage Commission would amount to $2 a day (the women worked from six a.m. to eleven a.m. in Widener Library) or $12 a week for the twenty, women. The increase would have given each woman sixty cents more a week, or $11.10 instead...
...Harvard, who signed the notices discharging the women, and other officials at Harvard say that it was the university's intention to replace the women with men anyway and to work the women into other jobs. One can only remark that it was most unfortunate that the Minimum Wage Commission's insistence should have been the factor crystalizing that intention.--Gardner Jackson in The Nation...