Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated that 224,000 steel & allied workers have been laid off in the past few months, and that only a small fraction of those still employed are working full time. Union membership has sagged, as it always does in hard times, and dues are so hard to collect that the S. W. O. C., "for reasons of economy," has had to cut its force of organizers and officeworkers from 437 to 354 (including 75 part-time organizers). Though numerous resolutions were offered asking for a $6-a-day minimum instead of $5 a day and a 30-hour instead...
...Minnesota's August Andresen moved to send the bill back to committee, and so many infuriated Southerners joined the revolt that for a moment the bill seemed likely to be scrapped. After the motion to recount had carried on the first count, the leaders were barely able to collect enough votes from the cloakrooms to beat it on a roll call, 206-to-197. A moment later the House, settling back into something nearer its accustomed docility, passed the bill, complete with Boileau amendment...
...magazine costs 15?. A 15? item, in this State, has a sales tax added to the price, so TIME costs Californians 16?. Now, I want you to change that price, within this State, to 14½?. That would exempt it from this pernicious tax schedule, your dealers would still collect the 15?, or at least 29? for 2, and some of us conscientious objectors would be spared the necessity of buying a 10? (untaxed) substitute. If this august State protested, we might appeal, and get a Supreme Court ruling-maybe even an historic 5-to-4 one, on the taxability...
...hire a man for one hour, say to load a truck, and pay him one dollar-I must collect from him one cent-discover his full name-his Social Security number-and make an individual report on the deal at the end of the six-month period...
...sold for almost $22 a ton in April, was down last week to $13.41. These melancholy facts trouble everyone in the junk business.* In Chicago the junk business is especially troubled, for retail junk shop owners for the last two months have been having trouble with the men who collect and sell them their scrap. About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association-a C. I. O. affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition and a closed shop. Retailers promptly had peddler pickets clapped in jail. Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction...