Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole, he reported, in its last session the 75th Congress had done better than any Congress "between the end of the World War and the spring of 1933": It had failed him on Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money...
Railroads. Because Labor insisted that the railroad industry give up its demand for a 15% wage cut if a bill for railroad relief was allowed to pass Congress, the session closed without anything being done for the railroads. Result: unless the Interstate Commerce Commission closes its eyes to the facts, and certifies to the RFC that the hard-pressed roads can repay loans made to them (the necessary requisite for RFC loans), it is highly likely that within a few months most U. S. railroads will be bankrupt...
Flexibility. When, 120 days after enactment, the bill should become effective, the Wage-Hour Administrator, a $10,000 official in the Department of Labor, would begin to examine wages & hours in all industries in interstate commerce to see where and when minimum wages should be flexed up and minimum hours down, toward the 40-40 ratio. He would appoint up to 750 boards, representing Industry. Labor and the Consuming Public, to make these studies and give him recommendations. If the Administrator should not like the findings of any board, he could veto them, create another board. To collect pay awarded...
Exemptions. Exceptions would be made for: 1) industries which have signed collective bargaining contracts guaranteeing certain wages for work not in excess of 1,000 hours over a period of 26 consecutive weeks, or guaranteeing an annual wage, where reasonable work weeks might be arranged within a yearly limit of 2,000 work hours; 2) seasonal industries whose employes might work up to 56 hr. per week: 3) agricultural workers and handlers of perishable foods...
...news room and in the Woodbury County election precincts in which they had been stationed. Within 80 minutes, a contract was signed. Among its provisions: Guild shop for editorial and business office employes, no discharges for economy for four months, vacations with pay after one year's service. Wage schedules, which the Guild refused to incorporate in the contract, were posted on the bulletin board. Typical wages: for reporters less than six months $16, after six months $18, after two years $24; for stenographers and clerks less than one year $12, after one year $13, after two years...