Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevailing wages was raised for steel, Secretary Frances Perkins' Public Contracts Board recommended hourly wage minima of 45? in the South, 62½? elsewhere. Independent companies kicked up a great row; U. S. Steel, already paying as much or more, was contentedly silent. Last week, Assistant Secretary of Labor Charles V. McLaughlin finally set the scale for the industry: 45? in 13 Southern States, 58½? in seven Midwestern States, 60? in eleven Western States, 62½? in the East...
Thus by the week end the Labor scene was in turmoil. Homer Martin, who seemed on his way to fame & power in 1937, was on the outside looking in at C. I. O. Two leaderships laid claim to U. A. W.'s contracts, bank accounts, membership. John L. Lewis' receivership for the union was itself in temporary bankruptcy. It appeared that only the rank & file could save U. A. W. from permanent disruption. And the shadow of a new figure appeared on the U. A. W. stage...
...union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union votes) to Mr. Martin and put Ford Motor Co. on good terms with the National Labor Relations Board. This would also relieve the pressure of a C. I. 0. boycott against Ford products and place the president of U. A. W. in debt to Henry Ford...
Last week Ward Culver, attorney for an organization of Ford workers called the Liberty Legion of America, Inc., announced its dissolution "as an independent labor organization" and attributed the action to talks between Martin & Bennett. Garrulous Homer Martin was said to have gushed in private that Ford would be glad to set him up at the head of a union, perhaps confined to Ford workers and unaffiliated with C. I. O. Henceforth Mr. Harry Bennett, whether he made himself so or was made so by the factionalists. may have to be taken into account as a big figure...
...last week realized a big dividend on its policy of political cooperation with the Roosevelt Administration. Under the Walsh-Healey Act of 1936, anyone Adding on Government orders above $10,000 must pay the prevailing wage in his locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor...