Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convention. There are in the land between 5,000,000 and 7,000,000 people out of work. Three weeks ago that large part of Labor which works in steel, copper and textile mills received substantial wage reductions (TIME, Oct. 5). All last fortnight the movement continued, employers explaining that there must be less pay or no work at all. With the nation's banks and the world's economy at a crisis (see p. 13 and p. 15), Labor was expected to accept its share of the general misfortune in a peaceful spirit. For the most part...
...recent agreement reached between the national organization and employers, demanded a four-hour pay guarantee for Sunday and holiday work, a lighter sling load. For this unauthorized strike, the local union's charter was revoked. At Lawrence, Mass., 23,000 textile workers quit when threatened with a 10% wage cut. Most unusual was the fact that the Communist National Textile Workers and the conservative A. F. of L.'s United Textile Workers joined in concerted action. Lawrence police refused permission for the National unionists to convene on the common, arrested seven agitators. But the United Workers were allowed...
...0nly 12 K% of U. S. wage earners are organized. In Germany the proportion is 35%, in Great Britain 371/2%, in Australia...
...Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs (12?) per day, could eat as much as he liked thrice daily, must sleep in labor platoon barracks, seeing his family only on weekends...
...imprudent to slap him in the face. He might be sluggish and slow to anger, but if aroused his wrath could be violent. Fortnight ago U. S. Labor, the large part of it that works in steel, copper and textile mills, decidedly had its toes stepped on. After sustaining wage levels through two depressed years while dividends fell and officers' salaries were lopped, employers at last reduced their workers' pay (TIME, Oct. 5). How would the giant with the sledgehammer take it? Up to last week he had taken it very well. But the nation's attention...