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Wage
1996 U.S. Senate approves 90 cents raise to $4.25 minimum wage

1991 U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour

1991 U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

1987 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze

1969 Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars

1955 President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour

1949 President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents

1946 President Truman ends wage/price freeze

1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over

1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets min wages and max hrs

1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour

1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)

1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction

1932 U.S. railway unions accept 10% wage reduction

1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day and $5 daily minimum wage

1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut

1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

1913 1st minimum wage law in U.S. takes effect in Oregon

1912 Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law

1877 U.S. railroad builders strike against wage reduction

1776 Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors

1758 Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75

1171 Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies



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