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...only a small bonus, but it would help. To many a G.I. it appeared to be quite a lot when he heard later that France had tightened up on its own poilus. The French soldier's pay was summarily cut from 800 to 180 francs a month, just about $1 a month at the black-bourse rate...
...about a quick end of the war. Now, the chances for a quick end were brighter than ever. But, as a matter of sense and duty, the fighting commanders had to assume that Japan would have to be invaded. Any earlier, easier end to the war would be a bonus. Sound military minds could hope for it. But they dared not count...
Rather, it was part of a public-relations campaign. The Maritime War Emergency Board had cut by two-thirds the war-risk bonuses paid to seamen for Atlantic crossings. And Stabilization Director William H. Davis had rejected N.M.U.'s plea to hold up the bonus cut pending this week's War Labor Board hearing on seamen's wages. The pickets were so much display advertising...
Curran's Case. An ordinary seaman on the Atlantic-plying Liberty ship makes $82.50 a month base pay (for a 56-hour week) plus board & bunk. Until last weekend his war-risk bonus was at least 100% of his base pay. If the ship entered a danger area, he got an area bonus (about $25), and a port-attack bonus (about $10). Take-home pay of all its members, N.M.U. conservatively said, has averaged $50 weekly...
...Curran conceded that, as the risks went down, the bonuses would have to go down too. But he and his seamen had no intention of working for a bonus-less scale that began at 34⅜? an hour. So he and N.M.U. last month proposed a new wage scale-starting at WLB's 55? floor -to the 39 lines which are the shipping administration's agents on the East and Gulf Coast. The employers said no and both sides turned...