Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nevertheless very much aware that her chef-d'oeuvre in Congress, the Wages-&-Hours Bill, was still far from enactment. Even if the House passes it, which it may well do this month, the Bill faces a battle in the Senate, hard sledding in conference and an-other vote in both Houses before it becomes...
...unanimous voice vote, approved the compromise tax bill drastically modifying the corporate surplus-profits tax, substituting flat rates for the graduated capital-gains...
Unlike its predecessor which the House voted down last December, the bill which Mr. O'Connor's committee met to consider last week had the support of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. It called for a minimum wage of 25? an hour, rising 5? an hour annually for three years to a 40? an hour minimum in 1941; and a maximum hour schedule of 44 hours a week, reduced two hours a year to 40 hours in 1940. What the bill lacked was a regional differential to permit Southern industry to continue reflecting climatic...
...time in putting his achievements before the Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week to set in motion his machinery...
...vote was only the first step of a procedure which may take six months to work out under the complex machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act. And the unions might still strike when this arbitration period ended. Said Railway Labor's spokesman, Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association last week: "Wage cuts are out of the question...