Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Senator Borah is apparently tired of disarmament talk; he wants action. He has offered a joint resolution in Congress providing that the United States with Great Britain and Japan agree to a fifty percent cut in naval construction for five years...
...each and all in some effort useful to society, was the substance of the I. W. W. program, according to J. T., or "Red" Doran, the last speaker of the evening. The I. W. W. would also abolish the "master and slave" conditions produced by the wages system and cut out the economic waste in the country, and all these ends would be accomplished by the direct action of exercising the force of economic power at the point of production--not the direct action of the "club" of violence. After showing the difference between...
...piece work system is used. The prices are so not that the worker has to turn out a larger quantity of work to make a fair wage. This corporation is always clamoring for greater production. If a worker does turn out more than his average production his prices are cut so that he must maintain the greater production up keep the same wage. Such a system greatly encourages increased production...
...League has picked its man well. If anyone can cut the Gordian Knot of the Near East, it is Leonard Wood...
...both the University and Freshman squad began yesterday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. tank, Huntington avenue, Boston. Twenty-nine candidates for the University team and twenty-three for the Freshman team reported. Trials were held to ascertain what men were the most promising candidates but no cut will be made until the end of the week...