The Case of the Railway Shopmen a Brief Statement of Facts Concerning the Contr
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) This was prior to the reductions in pay, and changes in rules still further reducing pay, that brought on the present strike.
The fiction of political favoritism of railway workers was finally exploded in recent hearings before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which disclosed that the leading railway executives, fearful of losing valuable employes, had advised larger wage increases than those actually put in effect by the government!
After the war there came a concerted and organized... demand, from large employers, for lower wages in all lines of industry. It was urged: first, that labor had taken advantage of war conditions to obtain excessive wages; and, second, that high costs of living could not be lowered except through wage reductions. Both these claims were essentially false.
First, in unionized trades outside of transportation and mining, the buying power of wages in 1918 was 66 per cent of that of 1907. In 1919 it was 71 per cent; in 1920, 81 per cent; and only with declining prices in 1921 did it reach 94 per cent (Manly Report).
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
) This was prior to the reductions in pay, and changes in rules still further reducing pay, that brought on the present strike.
The fiction of political favoritism of railway workers was finally exploded in recent hearings before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which disclosed that the leading railway executives, fearful of losing valuable employes, had advised larger wage increases than those actually put in effect by the government!
After the war there came a concerted and organized... demand, from large employers, for lower wages in all lines of industry. It was urged: first, that labor had taken advantage of war conditions to obtain excessive wages; and, second, that high costs of living could not be lowered except through wage reductions. Both these claims were essentially false.
First, in unionized trades outside of transportation and mining, the buying power of wages in 1918 was 66 per cent of that of 1907. In 1919 it was 71 per cent; in 1920, 81 per cent; and only with declining prices in 1921 did it reach 94 per cent (Manly Report).
What to read after The Case of the Railway Shopmen a Brief Statement of Facts Concerning the Contr?
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