Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...authorities in Lehman Hall refused yesterday to make any official comment upon the story circulated in the Boston papers that twenty cleaning women had been discharged from Widener Library in response to an ultimatum issued by the State Minimum Wage Board. Aside from tacitly confirming these reports, the officials involved made no reply to the storm of protest already aroused over the fact that the University was apparently unwilling to raise the wages of these workers two and one half cents an hour...
...Alumni Society headed by a Morgan towards those who do its dirty work is that reported in this morning's Post. "Twenty scrub-women in the Widener Library were discharged by virtue of no fault or complaint of their own, by Harvard College following advice from the State Minimum Wage Commission that their pay must be raised from 35 cents to 37 cents an hour making a total increase for the twenty of $2.00 a day or $12.00 a week. The women were getting $10.50 a week each. The increase would have given them 60 cents more a week...
...women working in Widener Library and to replace them with men. Arrangements to have the change made gradually so that the women layed off from the Widener jobs could be absorbed in other positions in the University were apparently upset by the interference of the State Minimum Wage Board which sought to have these scrubwomen placed on the same wage basis as the hardly analogous night workers in large office buildings...
...Professor William Albert Noyes of the University of Illinois lamented to colleagues about the meagre stipends of pedagogy. Before them he laid salary statistics gathered from Harvard, Illinois, California, Ohio State, Yale, Michigan and Wisconsin. He had found that in 1900 the average professor's wage was $2,791; in 1925, $5,318-an increase of 90%. But the average nonteaching university executive had gotten $3,115 in 1900, had received 122% more ($6,904) in 1925. Associate professors had fared a little better than full professors. In 1925 they received an income of $3,895, a 99% increase...
...mouths of pedagogs but from Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant (Wm. Filene's Sons Co.), charitarian, peace promoter, came a solution of pedagogical salary woes. Businessman Filene, whose who in Who's Who describes him as agitating to "increase wages and profits and raise the general standards of living," suggested a mild form of intellectual boycott. Said he, in a letter to the Association: "My hope is that our teachers will prove to be sufficiently selfish. Then it will be up to the colleges to find a way to keep them from accepting offers which they...