Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a House Bill restoring the wage of Federal court jurors...
...like the Plymouth four-day walkout of 11,000 workers at Detroit, were caused by jurisdictional disease. Some of them, like the grave diggers of Kansas City who in one day kept ten bodies from burial, originated in nothing less prosaic than demands for union recognition, closed shop and wage increase. However, if strikes failed to make labor news, three utterances...
...presented formal demands to the U. A. W. management. Like the good unionists they are, the office workers wanted such things as the closed shop, vacations with pay, a 35-hr, week, time & one-half for overtime, seniority rights, better lighting equipment, clean restrooms, a $25-per-week minimum wage and a signed contract...
...decided they would be safer if they showed the Stars & Stripes, discovered that the only purchasable U. S. flags in town were all stamped "Made in Japan" and offered by genial dealers who had jacked up the price of a small flag from $1 to $3-about the weekly wage of a Tientsin coolie...
...Immediately after the Bennet breakfast, Henry Ford announced that while his minimum wage is $6 per day, the average for all Ford workers...