Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ball had had some expert help in drafting his measures. Gerard Reilly, onetime member of the National Labor Relations Board, onetime Labor Department attorney and author of the minimum wage bill, now a Washington attorney and a good friend of Ball, had helped him write the Wagner act revisions. Donald Richberg, onetime labor lawyer and now a corporation lawyer, had helped Ball chiefly with the measure against industry-wide bargaining. Richberg was the man, say labor leaders, who led Ball "astray...
Bread & Wine. Most of the strike wave was in support of C.G.T.'s drive for a minimum wage of 7,000 francs ($59) a month. Many of the 1,300,000 Government employees (before the war there were 700,000) make less, and the raise would cost the French taxpayer 874 millions a year...
...economic decrees intended to end speculation in foreign exchange. Chinese currency, which had spiraled up to 19,400 to the dollar, was pegged at 12,000. But the deeper trouble would be much more difficult to reach without U.S. help. Chinese foreign exchange balances are barely adequate to cover minimum needs for the next three months. China's textile industry, for example, faces collapse if it cannot get U.S. cotton on credit. If China's cities are not making pants to trade with China's farmers for rice, widespread starvation in the cities may result...
This week's Buffalo teachers' strike for a minimum annual salary of $2,400 is but another clear portent that the American public, which spends seven billion dollars per year for liquor, will have to lend far greater support to its school system than the annual 2.5 billion it now sees fit to part with. No one was surprised last week when the United States Commissioner of Education stated that American education's paramount problem, and one that can be solved only by better salaries, is to improve the quality of public school teaching...
...With a minimum yearly stipend of $2,400 existing in but six states, the nation's average teacher's pay is a scant $36 dollars per week. Recent college surveys reveal that graduates are by-passing the teaching profession for very hard-headed economic reasons. Yet, if the quality of teaching is to rise (360,000 teachers have not gone beyond the college sophomore level) it is precisely these educated people who must be attracted and held. The states are responsible for education, but mere historical precedent cannot allow the Federal government to shirk a financial role any longer...