Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concretely, P. I.'s interpretation of "the advertiser system" has meant consistent advocacy of higher wages as a means of maintaining purchasing power. Most enthusiastic proponent of this view is tall, alert Clinton Roy Dickinson, president of Printers' Ink Publishing Co., Inc., author of two books and numerous short stories. In 1921 Author Dickinson served as a member of the unemployment conference called by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, was the lone supporter of the late A. F. of L. President Samuel Gompers in a minority report opposing wage reductions. Publisher Dickinson believes he would not be alone...
...making known to his people the will of the Lord, decreed that the work of his church should be supported by tithes- 10% of everyone's income. How much the tithing fund of the church amounts to today, no outsider knows. Tithing is not compulsory for all Mormon wage earners, although certain privileges of the church are denied to those who give nothing. About one-third pay tithes in full, another third in part. Tithes, which Mormons claim brought in more money last year than ever before, operate the enormous Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, finance missions...
...Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According to the study, the average Southern cotton mill worker gets a weekly wage of $15.52, compared to $20.34 in the East. Living costs in the East were found...
That contract having expired, and President Maytag having displeased his workers with a 10% wage cut, the company has been deep in labor trouble since May, was in deeper than ever last week. And so were the union and all Newton. After persuading 350 sit-inners to surrender the plant, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel proposed that they accept the cut and return to work, was promptly turned down by the union. At that, Newton officialdom and business went into action. Businessmen asked Sheriff Earl Shields to recruit 1,000 deputies, encouraged a back-to-work movement which...
With some hope of salvaging its industry, the Association of American Railroads three months ago voted a 15% wage cut effective July 1 (TIME, May 9). But so complex is the machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act that the A. A. R. realized it would take several months of bickering to put through the cut. Last week the industry got a taste of what might happen in the meantime. Rutland Railroad Co. (407 miles of track mostly in Vermont), which has lost $2,000,000 since 1931, went into receivership two months ago and Federal Judge Harland B. Howe...