Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads and 19 railroad unions. The three were the National Mediation Board, and their problem, in their own words, was the "biggest" the board has ever faced: to arbitrate the three-month-old deadlock between railroad managements' demand for and railroad workers' refusal of a 15% wage...
After some 1,400 Maytag workers had gone back, it appeared that no one had got much except a lesson in labor relations. The union had lost its strike and taken a wage cut; the company in beating the strike, had not broken the union, had stored up plenty of potential labor trouble for the future. Governor Kraschel had some tall explaining to do to Iowa's labor vote. Rumbled the union president, James B. Carey: "The Governor is doing what he thinks is politically necessary, but we think his position is political suicide...
Possibly just as influential on Chicago's WPA painting are certain restrictions on subject matter imposed by the assistant to the national director, shrewd, brown-eyed Mrs. Increase Robinson. They are: no nudes, no dives, no social propaganda. Presumably tranquilized by these exclusions, by a living wage of $94 a month and by freedom from any compulsion to be fashionable, such exhibiting artists as Raymond Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland...
Eying this field, Phillips took out a set of polymerization patents, soon ran up against competing patents owned by Texas Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), Standard Oil (Indiana). Rather than wage a costly fight, these four companies pooled their patents under The Polymerization Process Corp., which leases the process. Last fall Phillips Pete put up two massive polymerization units at Kansas City and Borger, Texas, baffled the oil world by turning out 100 octane gas in quantity too great for any known U. S. use. All Chairman Frank Phillips will say is that "the total output is being sold abroad...
...serfdom no better than slavery, they revolted again. Both revolts were put down, with hanging and shooting. Life has not improved much since 1865 for the 1,000.000 Jamaica Negroes. Lately they have not been able to get work in other islands of the West Indies. A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3. Year ago there was a boatmen's strike in Montego Bay. Since then, Jamaica has been simmering like coffee in a percolator. Last winter cane-cutters on the sugar plantations at the east end of the island refused...