Word: pay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week John L. began talks with a group of operators traditionally more hospitable than the Southerners-U.S. Steel, biggest of the so-called captive operators. He wanted Big Steel to boost miners' pensions, and to give them shorter hours (perhaps a 30-hour week) without cutting pay. Otherwise, another long coal strike seemed certain. For shortly after his newly proclaimed "period of inaction" ends, the miners will take their annual ten-day vacation. And by the time the vacation is over, the miners' contract will have run out. If there is no agreement by then John...
Neither under the Czars nor under the Commissars have the Russians had much experience at settling strikes. Last week the commandants of the three Western powers pitched in to help the Russians get an agreement. The strikers are demanding all of their pay in West marks because most of them live and work in the Western sectors. The Russians, who control the entire city rail transit system, have offered 60% of the workers' pay in West marks. Last week Ernst Reuter, Socialist Mayor of (West) Berlin, appeared at a strike meeting and offered to add 15% from city funds...
...state will buy out big landowners and, in turn, be paid for the land by small farmers with a fraction of their crop for several years. The state will pay landlords in certificates which they can use to buy shares in former Japanese industries from the government...
...Hardly one of our laity realizes the disgraceful truth that our Church, the richest communion in the richest land on earth, pays faithful servants who retire because of age an average pension of $76 per month; that she pays those forced by illness into earlier retirement about $65 per month; that she has the coldhearted callousness to pay the aged widows of deceased clergy the miserable pension of $31 monthly...
...probably the only greenhouse where weeds and orchids grow side by side, and where people pay more attention to weeds. It's certainly one of the few greenhouses where plants wear bandages. Professor Kenneth V. Thimann put them on after injecting hormones into the stems to see how growth was affected. His investigation of plant galls may lead to new information on animal cancers...