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...contrast to the few top positions, there are a great many low-paid positions in almost every Department held by tutors, section men, and lecturers. These men, often of great ability, are for the most part grossly underpaid, getting up to $3000 a year, often less. As evidenced by concentrators in the Economics, English, History, and other Departments, tutors are overworked and this is being, to put it coarsely, taken "out of the hides" of these...
...human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
...automobile as a token of esteem. That an automobile, admiration from players and spectators, a blue serge suit and $9,000 a year are still for Dolly Stark inadequate compensations for being an umpire became apparent last week. Appropriating a privilege hitherto reserved for baseball players who consider themselves underpaid, he refused to sign a 1936 contract, announced that he was "holding out" for more money. Said he : "The highest praise [umpires] receive is silence. When a man does good work under these circumstances - and I consider umpiring an art - I think he should command a good salary...
...Hospital laboratories, was appointed Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Hylan in 1918. He battled for pure food laws, fought against quack doctors, Prohibition, insanitary restaurants, pronounced on many a suicide and murder that perplexed police, made his name and detective work known in medico-legal circles the world over. Underpaid ($6,890 per year), he footed bills for equipment and technician's salary from his own pocket, twice threatened to resign, was persuaded to reconsider. He called the morgue the "Country Club...
Chief reason for hanging Pierre Laval: the Premier's drastic wage slashes, affecting huge numbers of already underpaid Frenchmen. Chief reason for not hanging Laval: his equally drastic efforts to force down food prices, rents, etc., along with wages in a great "Equality of Sacrifice" to keep the French franc at its present gold value. Last week Premier Laval, who locked up his Cabinet for 14 hours while the Ministers wrangled over and finally approved his first 28 emergency decrees (TIME, July 29), locked them up again and got action on some 40 more decrees. As before, these were...