Word: substandard
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...