Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Postal salaries were thoroughly deflated during the World War. Having no part in the wage rises given the Government-controlled railway workers, letter carriers and postal clerks stuck to their jobs at wages one-half those paid to textile workers. Salaries were not equitably adjusted until 1925. And the classification act of that year was admittedly a compromise, a lower wage than was just being fixed, coupled with an assurance of decreased living costs. Now, in the face of assured inflation and soaring prices, postal salaries must once more be "deflated...
...work & wages the automobile code was slightly better than the NRA average of 40 hours per week and 40? per hour. It provided a 43?-hour minimum wage in all big-city plants. The average work week was set at 35 hours. Because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production provision was made that employes might be worked a maximum of 48 hours a week during such periods so long as time during slack periods was scaled down to keep the average. Office help was put on about the same minimum basis as the President...
...recall election was 25- year-old Fortney Stark, onetime secretary of the Real Estate Board. Said he: "This recall movement is the culmination of three years' steadfast refusal to adjust the expenditures of the city government to meet declining revenues." The recallers favored a 25% wage cut for teachers, firemen, policemen...
...dinner-virtually whipped them into agreement. They came out late at night, glum, shaking their heads grievously. He had beaten down their demand for continuance of open shop.* The code provided a maximum 40-hr. week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks); a minimum 40? an hour wage; an eight-hour day effective after Nov. 1 if the industry is operating at 60% or more of capacity; three representatives of the NRA to see that steel obeys its code. Gloomily accepting these provisions the steelmasters agreed that the code should go into effect for 90 days to determine...
...last week the National Recovery Administration figured it had placed some 9,000,000 workers under work & wage codes signed by 1,000,000 employers. This showing, however, did not satisfy Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. Heavy industries (steel, automobiles, oil, coal) were harder to codify than expected. Re-employment figures did not seem to be keeping pace with the spread of the Blue Eagle. There was more & more talk about "chiselers." Said General Johnson: "We haven't started to apply the heat on this thing yet. This isn't a campaign of a week or a month...