Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote of confidence, the Assembly supported the Government's refusal to grant strikers an immediate wage boost. But headaches were only beginning: long-suffering functionaries of the Ministry of National Education-and even the police -threatened to join the strike this week...
...asking ICC for the boost, which all the railroads want, New York Central's Gustav Metzman also painted a dark picture. Said Metzman: even with the increase, the New York -Central will lose $18,652,000 next year, will have no carryback credits to soften the blow. Reason: the costs of wages and materials of rail roads, and all industry, have soared since war's end far beyond estimates...
C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union had started it. N.M.U. demanded a $17.50 a month wage boost, which the Government approved. Then rival A.F.L. seamen demanded $22.50-$27.50 boosts. The Wage Stabilization Board, believing that its duty was to hold the wage line, tried to limit A.F.L. to the C.I.O increase. Warned brilliant, 34-year-old Willard Wirtz, onetime law teacher, ardent puzzle fan and chief of WSB: this is a "stepladder" approach to further demands which would mean the end of Harry Truman's badly bent stabilization program...
...American Newspaper Guild met in Scranton last June, it served notice that all new contracts must provide a $100 weekly top-minimum for reporters (Herald & Expressmen now get $70*), $50 for employes in other departments. That meant that the Herald & Express would have to shell out a 40% pay boost. To Hearst's 10% offer, the Guild said "no contract-no work," claimed that management's suspension of publication amounted to a lockout. Replied the Herald: "A mass walkout prevents publication. It is not a lockout." At week's end Federal Conciliator Harry C. Malcom...
...keep whatever strife occurred with the companies entirely within the family. When the sailors "hit the bricks" in June of this year the companies looked to Washington to find out how much the government would subsidize them, so that they could, in turn, give their sailors a wage boost...