Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Building Construction Employers' Association's request for a 25%, cut. Although most of the city's labor contracts do not expire until 1934, the reduction will become effective March i, will obtain for one year. "We feel confident," jointly announced the unions and the contractors, "the wage adjustment will unloosen the log jam that has gripped local construction work...
...committee room last week walked the high-toned Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the person of Charles H. Dyson, fuel agent. Beaming, he benignly explained that it is B. & O.'s policy to buy coal at a fair price in order to enable miners to earn a living wage and in order to promote prosperity along the right...
Century Air Lines, operated by Motor-maker Errett Lobban Cord, employed 23 pilots at a minimum wage of $350 a month and flying pay at $3 per daylight hour, $5 per hour at night. The company (which enjoys no mail contracts) announced a cut in base pay to $150, flying pay to remain the same. According to the com-pany the pilots would average $360 per month under the new scale. According to the pilots-all members of the new union-it amounted to a reduction of nearly 50%. They refused, made counter demands for union recognition, reported for work...
...this arbitration could have been got through in a day. The prime point, wage reduction, developed into a bitter, inch-by-inch retreat of the employes' representatives...
...rail presidents went to Chicago to meet the unions with the single purpose of negotiating a 10% wage reduction. The labor chiefs were sanguine enough to hope the Chicago conferences would produce "something to take home to the boys." But the railroads, staring bankruptcy in the face if they failed to meet $400,000,000 worth of obligations maturing this year, had little or nothing to give "the boys...