Word: minimize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.L.W.U. got the sugar workers a contract providing minim urns of 41?to 43½?an hour (up from 26½?), plus perquisites such as company housing and medical care. This year the I.L.W.U., strong and cÕnifident, asked for much more sweetening: 1) a 65? minimum; 2) joint company-union administration of perquisites; 3) a 40-hour week; 4) the union shop. That was too much for the planters; for weeks negotiations have been stalemated...