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...equal representation from management, labor and the public.* - His general plan is to use all the persuasion and pressure at his command to moderate big labor's wage demands and big business' price rises. At the same time, the Administration will try to increase the incomes of low-pay and largely nonunionized groups by such means as boosting the minimum wage for the unskilled and service workers and by propping farmers' prices.* In his first farm bill, last week, Kennedy urged higher price supports for grain farmers who agree to reduce plantings...
...Although inflation and food shortages have recently played into Communist hands, Communism finds its greatest asset in Latin America's feudal, low-pay, high-profit economy which keeps the people in squalor and ignorance...
...means of making this vast, dislocating effort acceptable to labor and industry. Borrowing from the techniques of war, Wyatt asked Congress for $600,000,000 to be used in underwriting the risks of expansion and plant conversion, in assuring overtime wages when necessary, in raising wage levels in low-pay industries...
Women whose chief duty was to keep the home fires burning-somewhere-had their troubles too. On to hard-driven wives of low-pay workers went the added strain of higher food and clothing prices. They simply did with even less amusements, scarce anyway since the blackouts. Toughest economic time of all was had by wives of well-paid business and professional men called to the colors or the Government, or dismissed from their civilian positions. Their domestic overhead was out of all proportion to Army or civil service pay, and if the husband had no job at all, there...
Messrs. Lubin, Thorp & Henderson were unanimous that the Investigation must find a way to increase the earning-consuming quotient of the nation's low-pay masses if the U. S. machine's performance is to be made magnificent...