Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Dickmann he dispatched an urgent telegram: "Before you take final action on the ordinance before you, may I ask you fully consider the unnecessarily drastic effect which its enforcement will have on the coal industry in 15 southern Illinois counties, adjacent to St. Louis, employing 29,000 wage earners, and sending 4,000,000 tons of coal annually to your city, which is the natural market place for these counties...
...anti-Nazi descriptions of how in Nazi-land most people are painfully tightening their belts, but in London most comfortable Bloomsbury board with all expenses paid was provided for these Nazis by their Embassy and each man additionally received as "pocket money" about as much as the weekly wage of an average English carpenter...
...that the railroad-business is an old business. Railroad employes and employers are used to bargaining with each other. They understand and like each other. And since 1926, the year the Railway Labor Act was passed, it has been compulsory, if one side fails to answer the other on wage and work proposals within 30 days, to resort to the National Mediation Board...
Another reason that some reasonable wage adjustment will come from the Brotherhoods' demand is that railroad workers are not exhausted youngsters from the nerve-shattering assembly lines of modern manufacture, but seasoned men whose average term of service is about 15 years...
...good the boys or the gods would continue to be to U. S. railroading, stocky, optimistic John Pelley cannot say. Ahead of him is not only the pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with...