Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen as bargaining agents for the kitchen force, bus boys, and waitresses of the seven House dining halls, representatives of the A. F. of L. yesterday met with Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, and Roy L. Westcott, Manager of University Dining Halls, to discuss possible wage rises and union recognition...
...British Empire is foremost in the control of those resources without which the "have note" cannot wage long war. The British Empire can afford to wait, like Mr. Micawber, for "something to turn up" and this despite diplomatic humiliations not suffered since the American Revolution...
...European cities, working successively as a shoplifter, pickpocket, confidence man. He was sent to prison three times for a total of five years. Between his third release and his death in 1933, he had several legitimate jobs, one of which was writing his book on a weekly wage from the University of Chicago's Social Science Research Committee...
...years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "efficiency expert" had fired his imagination and he invented the Bedaux System of "B (for Bedaux) Units" now defined by Webster's Dictionary as "A system of wage payment in which work is subdivided into units equivalent to the number of minutes that a task should take and the payment of the worker on the basis of the number of points of work accomplished in a given length of time...
...since early in 1933. Of that amount, more than one-half results from new taxes under laws passed by Congress and from a 40% increase in the prices of materials and supplies and fuel which the railroads use. The rest is due to restoration in 1935 of the 10% wage deduction originally made in 1932 and to recent wage agreements with the operating and non-operating unions. . . . The average revenue per ton-mile and per passenger-mile has steadily declined since 1921, until today railroads haul a ton of freight one mile for an average of less than a cent...