Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding on a tide of successful labor uprisings throughout the State, Locals 112 and 186 of the American Federation of Labor met in Cypress Hall, Central Square, last night and approved a tentative contract with the University calling for a closed shop in the Dining Halls and kitchens and wage increases of from one to eight dollars...
...hour week, general working conditions and other basic phases of the present agreement remained unchanged. The wage of pantry men, helpers and glass and silver women was also set at $18, making this the minimum wage for kitchen and Dining Hall workers. The contract called for a $3 raise for bus boys, giving them $30 a week. Other increase asked were in rough proportion to this...
After a hearing before the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation early yesterday, the strikers agreed to compromise on a 7 percent instead of a ten percent wage increase, and after ten hours of intermittent negotiations both sides by one o'clock this morning had reduced minor points in dispute to the question of termination...
...pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this the new democratic philosophy, Mr. Lippmann took no credit for it himself, but laid it reverently on the White House doorstep...
Labor trouble at the popular rendezvous of local cafe society came to a head six weeks ago when employees struck for a 25 percent wage increase, a 48 hour week, and a vacation with pay. They went back to work two days later when representatives of employers and employees signed an agreement agreeing to submit the dispute to the State Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on both parties...