Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva 34 nations (the U. S. most conspicuously absent) were represented at a Preparatory Unemployment Conference. Their goal : a 40-hr. work week treaty for all the world. Labor's delegates demanded a cut in working time without a proportionate decrease in wages. Capital's delegates stood firmly for a wage cut to offset increased production costs. Britain pooh-poohed "this phantom of a 40-hour convention" whereas Germany warned that the alternative was government doles for years without end. It was estimated that the world is already spending $120,000,000,000 per year to keep...
Suggestions that a 30-hour week law, to be effective, must contain a minimum wage scale to prevent proportionate pay cuts collided with this stubborn fact: once the District of Columbia had a minimum wage law which in 1923 the Supreme Court annulled on the ground that it violated a citizen's constitutional privilege to contract for his own services at his own price...
...more inventions are made each year and there is no reason to think that technological developments will ever stop. . . . Death rates are still much higher in the lower income groups than in others. Until the death rate does not vary according to income, it seems paradoxical to claim that wage earners are receiving a living wage. Poverty is by no means vanquished. . . . One man in ten is buried a pauper. . . . We devote more attention to making money than to spending it. . . . The bargaining power of women is weak. . . . Bad housing persists in part because of the durability of the construction...
...railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, onetime section laborer, and President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, onetime news butcher. Three times during the day the meeting...
...elevated) Railway. He reiterated his plea of long standing: that if all roads were merged into one the railways would save $500,000,000 a year, "enough to practically pay the interest on all outstanding railway bonds." Nor was W'all Street stirred by the outcome of the wage negotiations in Chicago, few people thinking last year's reduction would be either increased or canceled (see p. 12). But last week's carloading report showed a less-than-seasonal decline and a total only 11% below the same week in 1931. For two days last week...