The Archive · 1932

WAGE REDUCTION' IN UNITED STATES

Chicago, Sept. 11.

Railway executives were reported to-day to be giving further consieration -to the 20 per cent. wage riduetion which they had already tentatively decided should go into effect in February of next year. One million workers will be affected.

They were likewise considering proposal made by President Coolidge some years ago of a "director of /western roads", designed to increase offici ney and ce-ordination of opera tion—United Press.

"Teree Haute, Indiana, Mine workers here accepted a 25 per cent. reduction in wages from the 1931 scale to-day, thus ending a strike which has been in effect Sine the old contact expired: last March 1.—United Prcas

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