Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toledano of the year-old CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), a hot-eyed little industrial unionist who likes to be compared with John L. Lewis. CTM's Toledano was one big step ahead of CIO's Lewis in that the employers had voluntarily formed a syndicate to bargain collectively under Mexico's 1931 Labor Law. Negotiations were stalled when the employers stuck flatly at the Oil Workers' demands: a 40-hour week instead of 44, a boost in minimum wages from roughly $1 to $1.70 a day, old-age pensions of from...
Harvard is conducting its own special bargain sale for concentrators in the field of History, Government or Economics, and also for any bright lads on the Dean's list...
...official statement was forthcoming from University Hall, but the general impression seemed to imply that this bargain wasn't going to last forever...
...Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the larger companies, employing more than 200,000 men and producing about one-fourth of the nation's steel, continued stubborn holdouts. When the Supreme Court certified the Wagner Act, their resistance took a subtle turn. They were entirely willing to bargain with S. W. O. C. and perhaps to enter into agreements with it-but they would have nothing put down in writing. Standing thus, they were strictly within their legal rights: the Wagner Act requires only bargaining, not written contracts. But S. W. O. C.'s Chairman Philip Murray, determined...
Primarily a grocery store like all supermarkets. Trading Post makes only one appeal: price. It undersells even chain stores 8% to 10%. Located in the centre of a 500,000 laboring and white-collar population, it often attracts a Saturday crowd of 10,000 avid bargain-hunters. Six neighboring lots provide free parking for 1,000 cars. In the last two and a half years two people have been killed, 19 injured in the traffic snarls that the supermarket generates...