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Last week the longshoremen offered to continue under the 1934 agreement until a new one was reached. The shipowners refused, announced that after Sept. 30 they would raise dock wages from 95? to $1 an hour, lengthen the working day from six to eight hours and temporarily abandon the use of hiring halls, the winning of whose management was the dockworkers' 1934 victory. If men would not work on those terms, the shipowners declared, they would shut down all operations.' Snarling that this would be "a lock-out," Leader Bridges declared: "Every port on the Pacific, the Gulf...
...that. But do not dodge the fact that this means fewer men employed and more men unemployed. The other way to reduce the costs of industrial production is to establish longer hours for the same pay or to reduce the pay for the same number of hours. If you lengthen hours you will need fewer workers. More men out of work. If you choose lower wages for the same number of hours you cut the dollars in the pay envelope and automatically cut down the purchasing power of the worker himself...
...potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here, in good faith, was a pleasant comedy to bar a thousand harms and lengthen life...
...Haley worked with the backs all afternoon, in an effort to lengthen out some of the 24-yard punts, and it was learned that he will continue to help Harlow as an unofficial and unpaid assistant for the rest of the season...
...serve notice that their jobs would terminate June 16. He called his Cabinet together, held another press conference, spent many more hours with Congressional leaders. Meanwhile the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association were urging all businessmen not to cut wages and lengthen hours, to uphold code standards. A. F. of L.'s William Green warned workers to resist any changes attempted by employers. All denounced the chiseling which "had been begun in many places." NRA ordered defunct code authorities to wire it collect reports of all code infractions. The reports were withheld from...