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Members of the cadre headed by Sergt. Isacowitz weren't there to take the bow they deserved. However, all the soldier students have expressed their heartfelt gratitude for the speed with which the cadre men prepared payroll lists. One payday was June 12 and another payroll has already been signed...
...like G.I. payday, it is mighty fine...
...Juniors are glad payday was moved back to Monday. . . . After that Exam Saturday. . . . Tis rumored some of the boys cut loose with everything they...
...like to face. Most important is that employers are now dealing with a seller's market in which labor commands wages far above peacetime levels. Thus some men can earn in four days what they used to make in six. Absenteeism is notoriously high right after payday, and the absenteeism-line (see chart, p. 75) has risen with weekly earnings. The cause of rising earnings is not rate increases alone but also overtime pay gained through the action of the 40-hour-week...
...George Gallup put together his polls, added a fervent "Amen." He wrote that two-thirds of all full-time employed Americans would be willing to have 10% deducted each payday to buy defense bonds or stamps; that six months before Pearl Harbor a substantial majority was willing to pay two weeks' salary to the Government in addition to all taxes; that 64% of all U.S. workers were willing to accept the Government's right to dictate to them the kind of work, number of hours worked and amount...