Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther's recent declaration of his intention to seek a four day, higher paid work week for his union's members in next year's bargaining can only injure the already precarious public reputation of organized labor...
...shorter work week is, in all probability, a likely social change in a future of industrial automation. However, there appears to the citizen unacquainted with the automotive industry, little reson to institute such a change at this time. Under the existing full-employment situation, a shorter work week with higher pay would seem only to serve to increase inflation. The attribution of an inflationary influence to the four day work week would heighten the natural resentment of the majority of Americans, working a five-day or sometimes longer week...
...PRICE RISE is coming because 1957 production will drop 2% to 3% below last year's record 28 billion Ibs. Southwest drought has cut into cattle supply and hog farmers are marketing fewer porkers to avoid last year's glut. Chicago wholesale prices: beef, 7% to 16% higher than this time last year; pork, up 37% ; lamb...
...FARE BOOST of 5% will go into effect on all North Atlantic flights beginning May 1, if U.S. and West European governments approve. Transatlantic lines want fare increase to offset salary hikes, higher fuel costs due to Suez crisis...
...Higher pay is not the only lure. Across the country businessmen beg. for secretaries with bristling columns of help-wanted ads, promising prestige ("Your Own Office!"), or glamour ("Handle TV Stars!"), or romance ("Young Execs!"). Many big companies, whose long-set salary and seniority schedules make them less attractive than higher-paying small companies, try to make up the difference with a long string of fringe benefits. After a survey of several score firms in the New York area, the Commerce and Industry Association of New York reported that 78.1% offer profit-sharing plans, 52.7% pay full costs for employees...