Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the World War, Britain will compensate her servicemen for casualties on the battlefields of the next war. In the next war, however, announced Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Britain will also compensate civilian wage-earners for loss of life or injury and property owners for loss or damage of property "as far as circumstances permit" -i. e., as long as the treasury is able to pay. In order to keep vital trade going during a war, the Government has worked out an insurance scheme with Lloyd's of London and eight other insurance concerns, which will...
Other speakers included Thomas H. Eliot '28 regional administrator of the wage and hours act; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English, representing the Cambridge Union of University Teachers; Zechariah Chafee, of the Law School; William N. Chambers '39, representing the Student Union; and C. Fayette Taylor, professor at Tech...
From a course in Wage-Law at Lincoln...
...walls, cretonne curtains) to hear how their management was running their business. Gus and his fellows learned that the company had run up a $10,000 deficit on a 1938 gross of $82,600. But Pilgrim had laid off no regular worker, paid its regular dividends, maintained a 7% wage increase granted in 1937 (average wage: $25.53 a week...
Others speakers at the Boston meeting will be Thomas H. Eliot '28, wage and hours act administrator for New England; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ralph B. Perry, professor of Philosophy; E. J. Simmons, assistant professor of English, who will represent the Cambridge Union of University Teachers; and C. Fayette Taylor, of Technology...