Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Loudest Voice. Matthew Woll, third vice president of the American Federation of Labor, raised the loudest voice in favor of an embargo against all Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...
...selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year. Not without opposition has Treasurer Dumaine set Amoskeag on its feet again. Employes have grumbled against his rigid economies, as when last March the print-cloth workers voted 4-to-1 against accepting a 10% wage cut so that Amoskeag could get a big printcloth order...
Coal strikes come when work-&-wage contracts between operators and miners expire. The present contract for the all-important anthracite fields* lapses Aug. 31. For three hot weeks in Manhattan a Union committee of six led by John Llewellyn Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America struggled in secret session with an operators' committee of six led by William W. Inglis of Glen Alden Coal Co. to negotiate a new agreement. Last week the two committees emerged in friendly fellowship with a new contract for hard-coal mining which each acclaimed as a guarantee of long industrial peace...
...Wages. Operators had spoken darkly of the economic necessity of reducing the cost of producing anthracite to meet the competition of fuel oil. They implied that cost reduction could be accomplished only by a lower wage scale. Miners had stoutly maintained that they would never agree to lower wages. The new contract continues the present wage scale where- under hard-coal diggers receive from...
Operators' Winning. In return for the "checkoff" and no wage cuts, Col. Inglis, for the operators, got into the new-contract union promises to "take active and affirmative steps to eliminate strikes and shutdowns in violation of this agreement; to eliminate group action designed to restrict output ... to cooperate with the operators for the promotion of efficiency and the production of an improved car of coal." An arbitration committee, composed of the twelve men who negotiated the new contract, was set up to deal with all work and wage disputes under the agreement, to gather facts by experts...