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...peace vote in the unions was set for this week. No empty settlement will this be for the strikers, however. Tentative agreements gave the unions their demands for 1) control of the hiring halls which pick men for jobs when employers call for seamen, 2) an eight-hour day (or less) with increased pay instead of time-off for overtime, 3) union recognition...
...Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which went into effect Dec. 26. The bill specifies such limitations as an eight-hour, three-watch day, that 65%, of the deck force have A. B. certificates, that 75% be U. S. citizens. With many of the new rules both shipowners and seamen are pleased. With one clause, however, U. S. sailors are vehemently dissatisfied. This is the clause that substitutes a continuous discharge...
...obvious answer was the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, passed at the last session of Congress and applicable to all Government orders of $10,000 or more, exclusive of transportation, communication or construction contracts. The law requires the bidder to 1) pay prevailing wages, 2) adhere to an eight-hour day, a five-day week, 3) employ no child or convict labor, 4) maintain safe and sanitary working conditions. Most reputable corporations can qualify on all points except hours...
Supper time for the evening shift is 8 p. m., a half-hour. At 12:30 a. m. Big Tony's eight-hour day is done. He is in bed by 1 a. m., often sleeping until 2 p. m. the next afternoon. Occasionally he gets up earlier to bowl, his record score being 250. On Sunday he goes to a Catholic church with his mother, takes in a cinema in the afternoon or evening. Big Tony Grzebyk works a five-day week at 90? per hour-$36 for a 40-hour week...
...steel industry earned more money than in any first-half period since 1930. It was employing more workers (500,000), paying them more per hour (67?), than in 1929. Individual pay envelopes were not so fat as in the New Era because the work was spread thinner, but the steelmasters were already preparing for longer hours. Fortnight ago U. S. Steel, followed by other companies, announced time-&-a-half pay schedules for overtime on an eight-hour day or a 48-hour week. Last year the average steel worker worked only 34 hours per week. Like vacations with pay, overtime...