Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table; you will be reminded of a few items of cost. You say in France a pound-loaf of bread sold for 4½?. We say in America in some places a pound-loaf sold for 4? (see paragraph 2)-made in the cleanest bakeries and the highest wage scale in the world. (Note:-Shoes from Czechoslovakia, light globes from Japan, shirts from England, all sell below American prices. Are we seeking to hold the American Standard-or drop to the foreign level...
Anti-Trust Laws. The President is to set aside at will the Sherman and Clayton Acts to permit industrial work & wage codes to operate legally. The Senate attempted to nullify industrial control by prohibiting price-fixing. A tacit admission that price-fixing is to form a part of most trade agreements was made when that prohibition was finally knocked...
...Birmingham, mills were running at about the average for the industry, in Youngstown slightly above at 48%. But what concerned steelmen most last week was prices and wages. Buyers last week found it nearly impossible to place orders for the third quarter. There were persistent reports that a 10% wage raise on July 1 would be the signal for a general upping of all steel prices...
...fair trade code to be approved by the President. Each such code was to ration production so that some plants would not work 24 hours per day while others stood idle, to reduce working hours so that more employees could find jobs, to set up a minimum wage so that sweatshop operators could not steal the market, to give labor a free hand so that it could organize and bargain collectively. Industrial minorities which refused to subscribe to majority codes could be put out of business, if necessary, by the President's power to set up a rigorous licensing...
...resolution inspired by strike-leading Mrs. Gifford Pinchot (TIME, May 15) was passed suggesting that "the Junior League acquaint its members with wage and working conditions that prevail in the factories, shops and stores in their own neighborhoods and to take an active part, through the molding of a civic consciousness, to secure the eradication of such unhealthy and uneconomical conditions as may threaten the welfare of our citizens...