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Page 134
... weekly half - holiday has become almost general in the various industries and trades . The early - closing movement , so long and urgently agitated by organized labor , met with more generous response from em- ployers than formerly . As ...
... weekly half - holiday has become almost general in the various industries and trades . The early - closing movement , so long and urgently agitated by organized labor , met with more generous response from em- ployers than formerly . As ...
Page 139
... weekly . General strike of electrical workers involving 200 employees took place because firms refused to sign new agreement for increase in wages ; in one week demands were granted ; Electrical Workers No. 103 involved . Strike of ...
... weekly . General strike of electrical workers involving 200 employees took place because firms refused to sign new agreement for increase in wages ; in one week demands were granted ; Electrical Workers No. 103 involved . Strike of ...
Page 141
... weekly strike benefit of $ 7 to married members , and $ 5 to unmarried members . March . Seventy - five stitchers employed at the Union Rubber Co. struck for restoration of rates of wages paid before January 1 , and recognition of union ...
... weekly strike benefit of $ 7 to married members , and $ 5 to unmarried members . March . Seventy - five stitchers employed at the Union Rubber Co. struck for restoration of rates of wages paid before January 1 , and recognition of union ...
Page 145
... weekly wage of $ 20 for 50 hours , instead of $ 18 for 55 hours as hereto- fore . Union boxmakers and sawyers granted demand for nine instead of 10 - hour day , eight hours on Saturdays ; weekly wages for sawyers to be $ 13.50 ; fitters ...
... weekly wage of $ 20 for 50 hours , instead of $ 18 for 55 hours as hereto- fore . Union boxmakers and sawyers granted demand for nine instead of 10 - hour day , eight hours on Saturdays ; weekly wages for sawyers to be $ 13.50 ; fitters ...
Page 146
... weekly increase of $ 1.50 ( making wages $ 15.50 ) for hoisting engineers and $ 1 ( making wages $ 15 ) for trolleymen , overtime 40 cents an hour ; employees signed new agreement in January . Typographical No. 13 demanded new scale of ...
... weekly increase of $ 1.50 ( making wages $ 15.50 ) for hoisting engineers and $ 1 ( making wages $ 15 ) for trolleymen , overtime 40 cents an hour ; employees signed new agreement in January . Typographical No. 13 demanded new scale of ...
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54 hours admen affiliated April Association August Bakers began running book and job Boots and shoes Boston Bourne Mills brick Brockton Bros Building Trades Carpenters Central Labor Union cents an hour committee Cutters daily wage days a week December declared District Council eight-hour day employed employment Engineers erected establishments factory Fall River February firm floormen Garment Workers hand compositors Hours of Labor incorporated increase in wages increased capital indorsed Industrial Changes installed International Typographical Union involved January July June Knights of Labor Leather looms machine operators Machines and machinery manufacture March Mass Massachusetts Metals and metallic nine-hour day non-union November October open shop organized overtime plant Plumbers purchased reduction in wages refused reported request Saturday half-holiday schedule SECTION September September 30 Shoe Workers strikers Strikes and Lockouts struck Teamsters textile Trade Unions union label Wages and Hours weavers week of 54 Woolen Workers Union workmen yarns
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Page 284 - ... the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted...
Page 281 - ... establishments within the commonwealth similar to that in which the controversy exists, and they may submit to the board at any time before a final decision any facts, advice, arguments or suggestions which they may consider applicable to the case. No decision of said board shall be announced in a case in which said experts have acted without notice to them of a time and place for a final conference on the matters included in the proposed decision. Such experts shall receive from the commonwealth...
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Page 284 - No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing documentary evidence before the commission or in obedience to the subpoena of the commission on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture.
Page 279 - The board shall hear all persons interested who come before it, advise the respective parties what ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said controversy, and make a written decision thereof which shall at once be made public...
Page 185 - ... gas, water or electric light works, pipes or lines, shall pay weekly each employee engaged in his or its business the wages earned by him to within six days of the date of said payment, but any employee leaving his or her employment, shall be paid in full on the following regular pay day ; and any employee discharged from...
Page 279 - ... the occurrence of the strike or lock-out was employing, not less than twenty-five persons in the same general line of business in any city or town in the...
Page 279 - ... employes, if at the time he is employing, or up to the occurrence of the strike or lockout, was employing not less than twenty-five persons in the same general line of business in any city or...
Page 285 - Section twenty- four of chapter one hundred and six of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by striking out the...
Page 287 - Upon the complaint and application of the mayor and aldermen of a city, or the selectmen of a town...