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...five-day week, a six-hour day and a sixty percent increase in wages; these are the demands of the United Mine Workers of America. Unless they are satisfied in full, a strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply...
...described as nothing else-is the most unreasonable measure ever undertaken by American labor. Never before in this country have the workers in a national industry struck for less than an eight-hour day. The professed aim of the American Federation of Labor had been the adjusting basis. A five-day week means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would...
Though many of us have growled and grumbled at the new five-day vacation imposed on the national industries by Mr. Garfield, there was one plank in his platform which pleased the undergraduate. Monday seemed well on the way to join Sunday on the credit page of our lives. Two consecutive days of rest and ease made us more and more in favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion...
...Christmas recess need not sign off for meals during that time, as no charge will be made against them. The restaurant will be open during the entire recess, and men may obtain meals by the American or European plan. By the former plan board will be furnished for two five-day periods, from December 23 to 28, and from December 29 to January 2, at $3.75 for each period. By the European plan a charge will be made only for food actually ordered. In either case no membership fee will be charged. All persons who wish to board at Memorial...
...American plan--Board will be furnished for two five-day periods, from December 23 to December 28, and from December 29 to January 2, at $3.75 for each period...