Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Claudius T. Murchison of the Cotton Textile Institute called the bill "administratively impossible to the point of grotesqueness." Managing Director Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute said the Board members ought to be paid $20,000 a year, given lifetime jobs, if Congress was determined to give any men such powers. He filed 28 typed pages of suggested changes in the bill. Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood felt that instead of permitting the Board at its option to employ advisers in fixing wages & hours for a particular industry, they should be compelled to appoint advisory...
When John L. Lewis urged a minimum 40? wage and a five-day, 35-hour week, West Virginia's boyish Senator Rush Dew Holt (he turned 32 this week) asked: "If the Federal Government proceeds from this bill to legislation to regulate all wages and hours, what will happen to industrial democracy?" Grabbing the cigar from his mouth, Boss Lewis exploded, "Is the Senator trying to be humorous...
...Republican Presidential hope, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, gave warning that Federal wage-fixing, once initiated, may lead to Federal price-fixing. They "together will lead ... to the centralized, authoritarian State with its tyranny of Government-blessed monopolies." Alabama's Senator Hugo Black, co-author of the bill, jumped to the microphone to defend it: "At least 6,000,000 people are now working more than 40 hours a week . . . 3,000,000 are now getting less than 40? an hour . . . even a 40-hour week would result in the re-employment...
...does not require any agreement at all to be made-the Supreme Court and the Committee which originally sent the bill to the Senate both have said so flatly -but if an employer refused to consider any agreement, he might nevertheless be considered not to have "bargained" in any real sense as required by the law. The big question at issue is whether an employer legally "bargains" who: 1) may be willing to consider wage increases, for example, and even put them into effect without making any promises of how long they will last, or 2) may be willing...
...Every person who expects to be unable to pay his doctor, nurse, drug or hospital bill must register with a Government bureau which will pay such bills out of tax money...