Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strikebreaker. That is because he called off the 1919 coal strike in the face of a Federal injunction with the statement that "We can't fight the Government." He was also accused of strikebreaking when in 1927 after the lapse of the Jacksonville agreement he permitted temporary wage contracts to be negotiated in Illinois and Indiana...
Many a miner considers President Lewis a hireling of the operators. That is because he sanctioned the signing of a Kentucky wage agreement on the eve of the 1922 strike. Frank Farrington, U. M. W. leader in Illinois, accused him of receiving $100,000 from Kentucky operators for letting them run while northern mines were closed. Later President Lewis showed that Leader Farrington was down for $25,000 per year on the payroll of Peabody Coal...
...electrification loan. When Coordinator Eastman set $60,000 as a proper salary for a big railroad president, Pennsy hired special accountants to prove that present salaries in terms of the "normal" 1913 dollar were actually lower than they were 20 years ago. President Atterbury's $103,883 wage was shown to be worth a mere $55,700 in 1913 money. Nevertheless, President Atterbury last week was moved to wire Coordinator Eastman that he had taken a cut to $60,000 Roosevelt. Gerhard Melvin Dahl, argumentative, square-jawed chairman of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (subway), who astonished lis squalling stockholders four...
During the burgeoning period of the N.R.A., when statements, proclamations, and forecasts were shooting forth bravely from every office in Washington, it was spread about, and generally acclaimed, that Labor was to be presented with a New Deal which was to include not only shorter hours and a minimum wage, but the right collectively to bargain with employers. Since that time enthusiasm over that particular promise has cooled considerably. It was abrogated in the automobile codes, and has been fought over in all the others. Recently the Administration has, on the one hand, attempted to dodge the issue by refusing...
This point is important and must be made clear. It is important to the laborer, for he wants a voice in the economic government of his life. It is important to the Administration, for its whole philosophy has been founded on the boosting of purchasing power of the wage-earner; and unless a second and third set of codes are to be enforced on industry, that boost to keep consumption up to rising prices will have to come from union pressure in each business. And the difficulties which would face the imposition of more codes are too obvious to merit...