Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that U. S. farmers have suffered sorely, nobody could deny. Last year the Department of Agriculture significantly reported: "For 1931 income fell short by over $1,000, 000,000 of rewarding farm operators and members of their families for their labor, even if they had received only the reduced wage rates now paid to hired hands, leaving nothing available for capital and man agement." In 1932. farm income had dropped another $1,700,000,000. According to Milo Reno, a farmer would have to receive the following prices if he was to make the bare costs of production: wheat...
...codes still pending. Most important code now in the mill is that of the construction industry. It is facing determined opposition by labor leaders who contend that as it now stands. the code, by fixing a minimum of 40? an hour for unskilled labor, jeopardizes union wage scales. After the building code is settled, anthracite coal will be tackled...
...good, because they were roughly "democratic" in their composition and did not affect any of the serious problems of a modern industrial society. They left the gulf between capital and labour unnarrowed and made no progress in the direction of real industrial democracy. As instruments for the arbitration of wage disputes they had, through the participation of the government, a vague kind of impartiality which might ideally be construed as advantageous, but which could have little practical significance under the political conditions obtaining throughout modern states. In other words, they were a little better than the National Labour Board, inasmuch...
...Retire Rich. This achievement was last week seized upon by Inquisitor Pecora and laid open for examination of its ethics. During Depression Mr. Wiggin had clamored loudly for wage reductions in industry but his own pay had gone booming along, had actually been raised in 1930 and 1931: 1928-$175,000 plus $100,000 bonus 1929-$175,000 plus $100,000 bonus 1930-$218,750 plus $75,000 bonus 1931-$250,000, no bonus 1932-$220,300, no bonus...
...Guild is "to improve the conditions under which newspaper men and women work; to protect their rights of collective action; to raise the standards of journalism, and for mutual help." Its immediate aim is to wedge four points into the NRA newspaper publishers' code: 1) minimum wage; 2) 40-hr., 5-day week; 3) dismissal notice; 4) standard NRA provision for collective bargaining, which publishers want to "interpret...