Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fund, $150,000.000 from the Relief Administration, release 2,000,000 men from local and State relief rolls at once, put 2,000,000 other unemployed to work by Dec. 15. CWA workers will be employed on small local projects (playgrounds, sanitation, pest control, repairs), will work a 3O-hr. week, will receive until Feb. 1 approximately $50 a month...
...meeting, denounced Mr. Ford's statement as evasive, declared they would "prosecute vigorously" the charges they had filed against the Ford Company with the National Labor Board. That same day Mr. Ford took steps to bring his company into line with a third automobile code provision- the 35-hr-average work week. He announced that no less than 9.000 men would be laid off each week for a seven-day period beginning this week until all had reduced their hours from 40 to 35 by Jan. 1. "The company is taking this mandatory step in compliance with...
...improve the conditions under which newspaper men and women work; to protect their rights of collective action; to raise the standards of journalism, and for mutual help." Its immediate aim is to wedge four points into the NRA newspaper publishers' code: 1) minimum wage; 2) 40-hr., 5-day week; 3) dismissal notice; 4) standard NRA provision for collective bargaining, which publishers want to "interpret...
...Macon made a shipshape 70 hr. flight from Lakehurst, N. J. across the southern states to Sunnyvale, Calif., near San Francisco, where she was berthed at her new base, Moffett Field. The Lakehurst station will be kept open for training in the metalclad airship ZMC-2 and nonrigid ships...
...past four years Sir Charles Edward ("Smithy") Kingsford-Smith, Australia's air hero, has been making records between England and Australia. Last week he made a new one: 7 days, 5 hr. At Wyndham, western Australia, he dragged his weary frame from the cockpit of his small monoplane Miss Southern Cross, gave newshawks a gloomy account of as miserable a week as he ever spent. Said Sir Charles...