Showing posts with label wages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wages. Show all posts
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Trainmen's Higher Wages a Burden to Farmers

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1916 New Orleans, La., Saturday. — That the increase in pay of members of the four railroad brotherhoods, caused by the enactment of the eig...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Maine Notes

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1916 With prospects of a big lumber cut this year, the Bangor operators are facing quite a serious problem in getting help enough, and good ...
Monday, April 7, 2008

The Story of a Mean Man

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1901 This is the story of a mean man. He may not be the meanest on record, but he carries a very fair brand of closefistedness. He had a con...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Have Got Beyond Feeling

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1902 The people of Martinique, or those who still cling to that unfortunate island, will probably not be alarmed by the scientific report th...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Federal Clerks Receive Small Salaries

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1910 By Arthur Blanchard Government clerks are generally thought to have an easy time by many outsiders, who envy the short hours and suppos...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Saying He Never Felt Better, Died

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1905 The death of W. H. Rockhill, ex-clerk of the courts of this county, here verifies in a way the thesis of Goethe that no man can survive...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The Douglas Shoe

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1900 The best advertised and consequently the best known shoe in the world today is undoubtedly made by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., of Brock...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Chorus Girls Quit Stage for Factory

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1920 Higher Pay in Shops Overcomes Lure of Footlights NEW YORK, N.Y. — Theatrical managers and producers are becoming alarmed at the shortag...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Dishwasher Runs Amuck With a Bread Knife

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California, 1921 History states that the Battle of Thermopylae Pass in ancient days was not such an exciting affair, and if so, it faded int...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Refused 15 Cents Refused 15 Cents For Haircut, Man Asks For Divorce

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La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1917 James B. Taylor is what some women would call a "model husband." He admits that every month he brought ...
Saturday, March 17, 2007

MAY HAVE WOMEN MOTORMEN

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Employment of women as conductors and motormen was advocated at the annual national convention of the American Electric Railway association,...