Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operator of a steel mill or a dairy or a garage can cut his employes' wages at will. The employes may protest, strike, picket his plant, but nothing more. Not so with railroad operators. First step required by the Railroad Labor Act for altering the wage scale on a railroad is a 30-day notice of intention to the unions. Arbitration and mediation go step by step up to the Federal Board of Mediation. If no agreement has been reached at this stage, the President of the U. S. appoints a committee by whose ruling the contesting parties are expected...
Fully awake to the gravity of their emergency. Eastern executives met month ago to consider negotiating voluntary wage reductions. Day later the Western managers met to discuss the same proposition. Then a national meeting of railroad presidents was called at the Biltmore in Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation...
...Armada was fitting out! The trouble with a poet, and a novelist too, very often, is that he has never done the thing himself. He hate's work, and if by chance he has to work at the bench or in a mill, he becomes at once a wage slave and imagines all other workers have the same feeling towards work that he has." The words are Chief Engineer Spenlove's, narrator of The Harbourmaster, but the voice is Author McFee's. Few men have better right to such an opinion, for few men have so successfully combined two professions...
...carrier executives. For weeks Mr. Willard has been in constant negotiation with brotherhood leaders and no U. S. railman today knows the temper of U. S. rail labor better than he. To the President he said: "I'm confident an agreement will be reached at the wage conference and I'm hopeful for a solution of the railroads difficulties." He explained that $200,000,000 would come from a wage cut which, with the $100,000,000 from increased freight rates, would pull the carriers through. The Willard optimism gave a hopeful fillip to rail securities...
...Netherlands sank to a new low last week. Japan's abandonment of the gold standard threatened the Dutch textile trade in the East. Eighteen thousand spinners and weavers walked out of 31 factories rather than accept a new wage cut. In Amsterdam Communists and police set to with brickbats and revolvers over a new regulation forcing all unemployed men on the dole to show their cards twice a day to prevent fraud. In the midst of these alarums, rumors started in Britain and Germany that Holland too would go off the gold standard. The Netherlands Bank quickly spiked these...