Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Effective Dec. 1 the AT&SF Railway (Santa Fe) following negotiations with their Association of Clerical Employes, granted said employes (clerks, stenographers, etc.) a 5% wage increase. A short time later the supervising chief clerks were granted a similar increase to maintain the same ratio in wage scale...
Just as eagerly awaited as the new Ford models were details of the Ford program for 1930. Cynics who had said that his wage-raise (TIME, Dec. 2) was meaningless because of the number of men laid off were less sure when they learned that the payroll, reduced during retooling for the new model, was increased at the rate of 600 to 700 men a day as soon as production began again. Then last week the Ford Co. announced that its 1930 expenditures will exceed $30,000,000 making it obvious that the Ford product during this year will...
...Professor William Albert Noyes of the University of Illinois lamented to colleagues about the meagre stipends of pedagogy. Before them he laid salary statistics gathered from Harvard, Illinois, California, Ohio State, Yale, Michigan and Wisconsin. He had found that in 1900 the average professor's wage was $2,791; in 1925, $5,318-an increase of 90%. But the average nonteaching university executive had gotten $3,115 in 1900, had received 122% more ($6,904) in 1925. Associate professors had fared a little better than full professors. In 1925 they received an income of $3,895, a 99% increase...
...land armaments. The huge armies of Europe are a menace to the peace of the world. They are a heavy economic burden, not only because of their overloading of the budgets of struggling nations but also because of a system of conscription which robs a family of its wage earners for a year or more at a period of life when this is serious and constitutes a vast economic loss to the nation. A successful naval conference will give a notable impetus to the general disarmament conference that is to follow...