Word: employees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McNear and the Brotherhoods snorted and haggled for a year. Neither budged an inch. Meanwhile McNear scrapped with the National Mediation Board, the U.S. Conciliation Service, the ODT, the National War Labor Board. His battle cry: "It is high time that someone, somewhere made a start. . . . The mere fact that...
Not since Mrs. Amelia Bloomer created an international uproar in 1849 by appearing in public in voluminous Turkish trousers had such a feminine trouser sensation swept the country. High-school girls in Brooklyn's big Abraham Lincoln High School struck for the right to wear slacks. In Detroit Mayor...
Some 500 factories, arsenals and shipyards are now wired for sound. From a studio or office, phonograph records are played over a system of loudspeakers. Other firms engage bands, encourage employe musical groups. In England, where nearly every factory plays music to its workers, surveys have shown a 6% to...
No one went broke at Jack & Heintz. The assistant controller, who had left a $2,300 job got a salary of $4,800 and, to his "complete surprise" a bonus of $10,000 after less than two months. The controller got a $7,500 salary; with bonuses made $25,153.32...
>The Department of Labor reported that 40% of the nation's war plants are operating 160 hours or more a week; 75%, 120 hours or better; 10%, 60 hours or more; the average war employe works 48-50 hours a week. Lack of raw materials is holding down fuller...