Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wages in the steel industry are not coming down." He argued against any wage-reductions: "It is my deliberate judgment that a general reduction of wages in this country would set back the impending recovery by at least two years." Alert listeners realized that this viewpoint directly opposed that expressed by Albert Henry Wiggin when he spoke to Chase National Bank's stockholders last fort night (TIME, Jan. 19). "Dead Centre." Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, also had a brief word to say last week. Members of New York State Bankers...
Cotton Dogs. Bitterest last week were the plaints of Lancashire cotton weavers. Five thousand had already struck against the employers' new system of assigning one weaver to tend eight looms instead of four, while raising the basic wage from $9.36 weekly to only...
...eight Lancashire looms efficiently is preposterous," declared the weaver's union. "The work is hard at only four looms. To double it would mean unbearable physical strain. . . . The offer of the employers is a fraud. The individual weaver would stand to profit about 20 per cent on his present wage, while he would be turning out almost 100 per cent more work...
...congress." There was a lower house of representatives of employes and a senate made up of representatives of the foremen, overseers, second hands. Plant problems were handled in parliamentary fashion. In spite of the hard times which struck the textile business three years ago, the Fitzgerald mills maintained a wage level averaging 10% higher than any other Southern plant...
Last week F. P. A. printed them in his "Conning Tower." Excerpt: Others behind the conflict, safe and far, Still wage with lips their travesty of war; We catch the rumor when the cannon cease. Here at the front, when most of the cannon rage, The dream-touched actors on this mighty stage In silence play their parts, and seem at peace. Lean, swart and homely, wise and sardonic...