Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindley draws a picture of the distress produced among small wage earners by bank failures which shows that he is aware of the breakdown of the economic system, but the refuses to admit that the breakdown is the result of any inherent inadequacy in the system in the face of modern technology and the growing complexity of world economy. Socialism he dismisses with an exclamation mark and a "God forbid." Socialism is very possibly not the right solution, but it can hardly be rejected off-hand without so much as the suggestion of an alternative solution...
Rumors to the effect that wage cuts for maids in University dormitories are being contemplated were emphatically denied last night by A. L. Endicott '94, comptroller of the University. It was rumored yesterday that maids in the dormitories had been given contracts in previous years specifying a definite wage of 32 cents an hour. It was reported that, preparatory to a wage cut, wage had been made in contracts for the current year...
...Wage cuts in several departments of the University have already been announced. Notable among these, the wages of employees in the Maintenance Department were reduced to correspond with reductions in the building trades...
...have been given work through the plan. Last week Chairman Herbert Lee Pratt of Socony-Vacuum announced that so far as possible the plan would be put into effect among the company's 30,000 employees."This program starts at 26 Broadway,"he said, "and is recommended . . . for wage earners and salaried employees. Employees whose earnings do not exceed $100 a month will not be affected." The five-day week plan of course means a smaller weekly pay check to all employees but means more men will be working, more money spent than if some men were able...
...Surrogate's bench two years later. Irish Catholic, 59, easy, affable, everybody's friend, he likes cards, the theatre, golf, wears button shoes, leads an eminently respectable private life on the upper West Side. He promptly indicated his obedience to Tammany by announcing against any wage cuts for city employes...