Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the chasers receive $40 a month for a 42-hour week, as a more careful reading would have shown. Our editorial reads: ". . . . these girls were last year being forty dollars a month for a forty-two hour week." No one has denied that this was the actual wage, and the girls themselves will corroborate this figure. This Monthly is delighted to learn that in the recent past there has been a weekly increase in salary of $1.71 and a weekly cut if three working hours, The Crimson may feel that this $1.75 now paid to these girls...
While refusing to say whether the $47.50 a month which the chasers receive constitutes a living wage, Metcalf defended it as standard pay for "errand boys." He revealed that to his knowledge no employees had yet been approached by any union, and added that the Library's attitude in case of efforts at unionization would be determined by University policy...
Officials refuted charges that chasers are underpaid, and stated that they receive $47.50 a month for a 39 hour week, not $40.00 for a 40 hour week as the Monthly editors charged. This compares favorably with wages paid at other libraries, they said. At the New York Public Library $45 is the monthly wage...
...This figure has been established by repeated tests. The female "chasers" are not paid $40 a month for a 42 hour week, as the Monthly states, but receive $47.50 a month for a 39 hour week. This is an average of thirty cents an hour, which is the standard wage for labor of that unskilled type. Whether this wage is in itself too low is a question that may very well be debated, but it is quite universal for labor of that sort, and any institution paying that wage can not be accused of having an "unsavory labor policy...
...Thirty-first Annual Sale of Christmas Seals in Cambridge begins the day after Thanksgiving, for the support of Sunshine Camp, a summer health school for sixty boys and girls. The money is also used to wage an educational campaign against tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer and syphilis...