Couzens Details How Five Dollar Day Began For Ford Workers
Senator James Couzens recounts to Printers Ink Monthly that he proposed a five dollar a day minimum wage for Ford workers in 1914 to cushion layoffs. He credits wartime wage rises for limiting the plan's immediate impact and notes production pressures can outpace wages, urging fairer sharing of gains from productivity and technology.
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New York City
ILNS
Henry Ford
Ford
James Couzens
Printers' Ink Monthly
Senator Couzens
Ford Company
China
Japan
India
Hoover offers government aid to coal industry reform
President Hoover told United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis that the administration will aid constructive programs in the bituminous coal sector. He referred requests to the commerce and labor secretaries to assess how the government might assist operators and miners and others affected.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Hoover
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Secretaries of Commerce and Labor
British Color Process Demonstrated Before Royal Society
A new British color process shown to the Royal Society in London promises to revolutionize cinematography. The film base is printed with a matrix of 500 000 tiny red green and blue violet squares per square inch, over which a sensitive emulsion is applied. The five year project yields an inflammable film output.
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Royal Society
London
Frey Blames Big Business For Depression Era Doldrums
John P Frey argues in The Calamity of Prosperity that bankers and industrial leaders caused the low mood through wealth concentration and wage stagnation. He compares per capita machinery use across 1913 to 1925 and calls for regulation or tighter cooperation between industry and labor to prevent future depressions.
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John P. Frey
American Federationist
Frey
America
United States
Great Britain
Germany
India
China
Frye
Portland
American Federation of Labor
Expresson
Ma Frey
Warners
Allentown Silk Mills Strike Seen as Toilers Victory
Allentown silk strikers rally public support across textiles and cement workers as production collapses in the city. Governors and local officials rebuffed strikebreakers, urging cooperation while Paterson based agents face scrutiny for union busting tactics.
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Allentown Silk Mills
Toilers
Allentown
NLNS
Victory
Pinchot
Kellow
Lehigh County
Paterson
Textile Workers’ Union
N. J
LLS
Vity
United Textile Workers
Gov. Larson
Manning
Warlene
Manning Industrial Service
Pennsylvania Troopsre
Southern publishers back 1 million protection fund
Asheville North Carolina reports the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association formalizes an insurance protection fund of one million dollars to cover losses from labor troubles. The plan aims to shield members against strikes and wage disputes amid current industrial unrest.
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Asheville
N.C
ILNL
Jinti-Union Southern
Cliangal
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Webers
Quotable Leader Quote About Leadership Struggles
The text reflects Elbert Hubbard’s view that a worthy leader accepts ingratitude and errors as part of public service, rejecting complaints about helpers or public appreciation as inherent to leadership.
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Elbert Hubbard
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