Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each case applying for relief to the local emergency relief agencies should be treated on its merits as a relief case, wholly apart from any controversy in which the wage-earner may be involved. . . . Unless it be determined by the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor that the basis for a strike is unreasonable and unjustified, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration authorizes local relief agencies to furnish relief to the families of striking wage-earners after careful investigation has shown that their resources are not sufficient to meet emergency needs...
...directed four textile strikes in the last five years. He lost the one at Marion, N. C. in 1929 because of premature attempts to organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union's six-month struggle blocked wage cuts for woolen workers. A strike among silk workers at Pawtucket, R. I. in 1933 won better wages, a reduction of the machine load per employe. Last year Francis Gorman invaded the South once more to organize cotton textile workers in Alabama. There 13,000 men struck in mid-July...
...more than in the same period of 1933. And instead of a $300,000 profit for the period, it reported earnings of $700,000. Last week, "on the basis of unusual accomplishment by the Jewel organization" the directors declared not an extra dividend but a 5% wage bonus for each & every one of its 2,250 employes...
...Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion, McGuffey lies in the mucklands around the Scioto River where the National Onion Growers Association controls 17,000 acres of onions and peppermint. In June the 700 men, women & children who weed the crop 10 to 12 hours a day for a maximum wage of 12 an hour struck for 35? an hour and an 8-hour day. The American Federation of Labor rushed in to organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they did by working, proceeded to picket while hogweed grew two feet high...
...first six months the railroads as a whole reported net operating income of $225,000,000, up from $154,000,000 in the 1933 half. But rising costs, notably of fuel, began to catch up with rising revenues in late spring. On July 1 the first of three wage increases totaling 10% went into effect. Last week as July reports began to trickle in, it was clear that not only net income but gross revenues as well were sliding. The first 15 roads to report showed a 7% drop in gross and a 42%, drop in net from July...