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Wages
1977 President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981

1971 President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents

1970 Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages

1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week and more wages

1953 U.S. controls on wages and some consumer goods were lifted

1951 Wages in France increase 11%

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

1941 Netherlands begins taxing wages

1937 U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day

1923 Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins

1923 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages

1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages

1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages

1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day

1913 Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor, Brain, Wages of Fear

1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages

1892 Charles Vanel, Rennes France, actor, Wages of Fear

1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis Mo

1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages



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