Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, before anyone foresaw the heights inflation would reach, the government signed a contract with the All India Railwaymen's Federation. It included a cost-of-living allowance pegged to rising prices. The government argued later that it could not keep the contract without contributing to the disastrous price spiral. The railway federation, dominated by Jai Prakash Narain's Socialist Party, screamed that it had been betrayed. In December its 350,000 members voted to strike on March...
...educated Socialist Narain talked with the government. By Feb. 16, he told his railroad men that the government had granted a $3 monthly pay raise to low-paid employees and would consider other demands. The union leaders voted to postpone the strike. But some rank-&-filers wanted their full contract rights. The Communists grabbed their chance...
...present weekly rate is $12.25 for 21 meals. If the optional contract system were now adopted, the Dining Hall management calculates that 55 percent of Dining Hall patrons would still sign up for the full 21 meal contract even though its price would then be $14. Some 35 percent of College diners would sign up for the 14 meal per week contract costing $12, and ten percent would contract to eat only seven Dining Hall meals per week at a cost...
Since the average student at present eats only 16 meals per week in College Dining Halls, those who eat more than 16 meals per week are subsidized by those who eat less. Therein lies the injustice of the present system. Yet the optional contract system would afford little saving even to the minority who wish to eat less than the average 16 meals weekly. Those who think it would be cheaper to eat all their meals at beaneries around the Square might prove their point only at the risk of ptomaine poisoning or malnutrition, while men who eat at clubs...
...Administration in charge of Dining Halls has not been asleep to possible improvements in the meal contract system, nor is it, as some would think, hostile to the clubs. The University must consider the effect of a change on the majority of undergraduates, and the optional contract system would mean a considerable increase of meal costs to that majority, without effecting any substantial saving to the minority. College-wide, the interests of the undergraduate are best served by maintaining the 21 meal requirement...