Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silk strikers demanded: eight-hour day, five-day week, 40% wage increase. They complained that they were now worked 9½ to 14 hrs. per day for a wage that began at $12 per week. Most of the operators of Paterson's silk mills, large & small, almost welcomed the strike as an excuse to shut down their plants...
...Alexander Scandrett (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific) and Whitefoord R. Cole (Louisville & Nashville) appeared to repeat orally their written arguments for a rate increase. Mr. Pelley, speaking for all eastern roads, contended that the rate increase was sought only to tide the roads over to better times and avert wage cuts. Spokesman for all Western lines, Mr. Scandrett testified that the carriers asked for a rate increase only as "a last resort" to save their credit structure. He felt that the I. C. C. should not interest itself too much in Industry's ability to pay a higher charge...
...industrial plants all over Russia mass meetings were held last week to discuss the Stalin plan, arrange for the new wage scale and a resumption of the six-day week (with a common holiday). Telegrams of congratulations and loyalty were sent to VOZHD (The Chief). Not a few factories went further, sent long public confessions of their shortcomings with earnest promises to do better...
...Royal Commission reported cigaret factories in which Indian children aged from six to ten are employed 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at a wage of 4¢ a day, adding, "similar conditions were found to prevail in the mining and wool industries." Adult Indian workers, the Royal Commission ascertained, receive some 37¢ a day unless highly skilled, when they may earn 50 cents...
...wages of Soviet locomotive drivers and other skilled proletarians will be raised, Stalin indicated, above the wage level of unskilled proletarians and despised white collar yes-men. Up to last week the theory of Soviet wage scales (varied some-what in practice) was approximate wage equality between the skilled and the unskilled. With a mighty tug Stalin seemed to shift the whole Soviet wage structure ?in a direction seemingly opposite to Communism...