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...Patiño's tin miners in Bolivia, whose cause Galarza had championed (TIME, Dec. 28), were back at work,* producing needed metal for the Allied war machine. Their demands for improvement of their substandard living conditions were as yet unanswered, though a special U.S. commission was preparing to investigate the dispute. By appointing such a commission, the U.S. Government had acknowledged a definite interest in the controversy, had shouldered a certain responsibility for its solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Man Against Tin | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Labor whose pay has been raised 15% since Jan. 1, 2941 is not entitled to a raise unless it can prove that its wages were "substandard" at that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of Appeasement? | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

This doctrine was enunciated last week when WLB denied a general wage increase to 2,750 employes of General Cable Corp. Grounds: their pay is not "substandard and has already been upped at least 15% in the past 16 months-more than enough to cover the rise in the cost of living. A similar decision was handed down two weeks ago in denying a raise to 1,200 Remington Rand workers, but without any such clear explanation of "uniform and universal application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of Appeasement? | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...little under $1,000,000,000 a year. Leon Henderson's price-control office had previously guessed $3,000,000,000. But the big question left open is how much further the board will go in raising the pay of workers who claim that their pay was "substandard" 18 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of Appeasement? | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...reached 15% by the time the President announced his anti-inflation program in April. Therefore U.S. workmen should have had a 15% pay rise in that period to maintain their standard of living. But only that period should be considered; for what has happened since, only workers at substandard wages can ask relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unstabilized Wages | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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