Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening Mr. Phelan would grow sadder & sadder. He would request the house crooner to sing an Irish song. During the singing Mr. Phelan invariably wept. He then tipped the singer according to the copiousness of his tears. On the basis of these tips was compiled the above wage scale. The beneficiaries, who did not know Mr. Phelan's name, called him simply "The Big Mick from Down Town...
...besieged had had no food for two days; they sipped dirty water from the boiler pipes. At any second they expected to be rushed from their stronghold by a massed attack of unionists, long enraged at their "scab" operation of the Dixie Bee pending negotiation of a new wage scale...
...nasty strike among High Point's hosiery workers. During July roving bands of strikers caused a hundred textile plants in the State's northern Piedmont section to shut down, forced some 12,000 employes out of work. In 24 High Point, mills the dispute was over a $2.25 base wage demanded by 6,000 strikers and $2 offered by employers...
During the session President Hoover vetoed seven measures, including the first relief bill, a Democratic tariff bill, an omnibus pension bill, a bill for a pre-arranged wage scale on public works...
...Whether Thomas Bat'a ruthlessly exploited his working partners or made them comfortable & happy is the subject of bitterly controversial labor literature in Europe. In normal times the wage of expert Lynn shoemakers averaged $30 gold per week, expert Zlin shoemakers $13.50 gold. But the House of Bat'a claimed to provide married working partners with houses having bath and electric light for 45? per week, served restaurant meals at 8? each, "four meals...