Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he proudly put his name to the Social Security Act (Aug. 14, 1935), Architect Franklin Roosevelt observed that the law was "the cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete." Last year the Senate Finance Committee, beset by the clamor of other architects to improve on the plans, commissioned an Advisory Council of 25-including employers, labormen, Government officials and consumers, chairmanned by Princeton Economist James Douglas Brown-to draw up plans for rebuilding the structure. Last week the Council handed back a much amended set of blueprints, designed to repair some...
...flaw critics have pointed out in the Act is its scheme for a full reserve for old-age insurance to be built up during a long period while revenues from taxes on employers and employes exceed disbursements. By 1980 this vast coalbin is scheduled to hold a reserve of $47,000,000,000. The effect of locking up $47,000,000,000 of public purchasing power would be highly deflationary. Actually, the money is not being locked up but lent to the Government. This means that by 1980 the Government will owe the Social Security Reserve 21% more than...
...National Labor Relations Board is facing a crists because the vigorous and determined movement to "emasculate" the act which set it up is being met by a wearied and weakened defense, said Dr. J. Raymond Walsh, former instructor in Economics, in a speech sponsored by the Teachers Union, at Phillips Brooks House yesterday...
...Whatever it is," Walsh said, "the critics of the act are bargaining for amendments making 'coercion' by unions as well as employers, illegal. The term 'coercion' can be stretched to include all effective strikes, picketing, circular distributing even enthusiastic hymn singing in church has been called coercive by courts...
Walsh warned that the enemies of the Wagner act were attacking it from other sides, too. striking without a majority vote of all employees, sit-down strikes, and the collection of funds for political purposes, are all practices which would be illegal if any of the suggested amendments were added to the act...