Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...years ago, the U. M. W. grew to be the largest single unit in the American Federation of Labor. Coal operators bowed to its will, accepted its working and wage contracts. It negotiated the famed Jacksonville agreement (1924) for high wages in the bituminous fields. When it so much as threatened a strike, people shivered at the prospect of a coal shortage. At the peak of his power President Lewis, on a $12,000 per year salary, ruled some 500,000 Union miners...
Then coal mining fell upon evil days. The industry was economically depressed. Two miners tried to divide the work of one. When the Jacksonville agreement lapsed and the operators refused to renew it, President Lewis opposed any wage reduction, kept Union miners out of work. Strikes were called only to fail in human misery and destitution (TIME, Nov. 28, 1927 et seq.). Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant...
Although the directors of both Bethlehem and Youngstown proceeded to approve the deal, 66% of Youngstown stockholders must agree to it. To prevent this, Mr. Eaton traveled from Cleveland to Youngstown. rented a room in a hotel, announced: "We are prepared to wage one of the greatest battles for proxies in the history of the State. Youngstown Sheet & Tube will never merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp...
...second example is the University's defense in their last letter that "they are not aware of any complaint ever having been received from the women regarding their wages." Of course, they have not complained and no one connected with labor problems expected them to. To complain usually means dismissal, and there is nothing a laboring man or woman fears so much as being fired. The specter of unemployment with rising bills and empty stomachs has made working people do far worse things than submit silently to an unjust wage. The University's giving this as an answer shows their...
Then finally, those of us who in college became interested in seeing the status of laborers rise and the policy of employers become more human are disgusted with the University's futile attempts to justify its miserly wages. Even if they are technically above the minimum level, still it was weeks after the lay-off, and after the announcements of the Wage Commission's decree and then of the reorganization at Widener that some bright person thought of this defense. But more important than the lateness of the excuse is the fact that it is simply not convincing. We expected...