Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into sharp relief has the railroad problem of the United States been thrown by the decision of the President's fact-finding board. For, in ruling that the threatened wage-cut is unfair to employees, as well as futile toward a general solution of the problem, the report has silently but surely implied that the salvation of American railroads lies only in an evangelistic conversion: i.e., in complete reorganization. Only this could it have meant when it pointed out "the necessity that now rests upon the government for a complete and thorough-going reconsideration of the relationship of the railroad...
While the major U. S. railroads were last week pleading to Franklin Roosevelt's Fact-Finding Commission that they cannot continue in business without enforcing a 15% wage cut, directors of a little U. S. railroad which has not operated a train or sold a ticket in 89 years met in Adrian, Mich, to pay a $24,000 dividend...
...versatility, Churchill has succeeded in writing one impressive work: a six-volume biography of his famous Whig ancestor, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, the English Napoleon. The last volume, published last week, is perhaps the most interesting, is also the volume in which Author Churchill had to wage his stoutest defense...
Robert H. Everitt, international A. F. of L. organizer for the Building Service trades admitted that many janitors, still dissatisfied with the existing wage scale had implored his union to enter the field once again...
Adjustment of a 44-hour week and an average wage of $25 may be temporarily satisfactory, but it was learned yesterday that several independent employees had appealed to the A. F. of L. to wage a united front in behalf of better wages and working conditions...