Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently yielding to strong union pressure which has developed over the last two days in an extensive drive to organize all employees, University officials announced a wage increase to 400 service workers last night...
Said a spokesman for the University: "Inasmuch as these workers come approximately within the same wage group as the waitresses in the University Dining Halls, it is fair that they receive the same relative wage increases as was given recently to the waitresses...
Negotiations for an initial contract first went on the rocks last October, and the Trainmen issued a strike order. However, the negotiators resumed their seats, the union asking for a uniform contract covering all eight lines involved, the company holding out for wage differentials between the various lines. The unions also wanted a closed shop and wages for drivers boosted from around 3½? per mile to 5?, with a guarantee of 200 miles per day ($11). Last week the company flatly and finally turned down the demands, and the drivers climbed...
...quintessence of fiction in politics these days is the Undeclared War. . . . No war in Europe or Asia has been declared since the Kellogg Pact was signed in 1928. The inference is that no power quite dares to ignore it. They wage only undeclared wars-and at least the piece of parchment is inviolate. . . . No more withdrawal of ambassadors, no more neat little ultimatums expiring at midnight. Instead, calculated or swift attack. Instead, wars that aren't called wars, and peace that isn't peace. . . . There have been three undeclared wars since the year 1935 [Ethiopia, Spain, China...
Dubbed an "unnecessary frill" by the Colony's critics, the prison debating team last year trounced M. I. T. Later in the season the convict debaters will wage verbal war with Brown and M. I. T. among other opponents. All the debates have been at the prison...