Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter Mary Norton and the Labor Committee set to work producing a new bill. Essentially milder than its original, it called for a 25?-an-hour minimum wage, a 44-hour maximum week, graded to a 4O?-an-hour minimum over the next three years and a 40-hour maximum over the next two. However, it lacked the regional differential which had been its predecessor's concession to Southern industry's cherished conviction that climatic and racial conditions below the Mason & Dixon line entitle its workers to a lower wage scale. Consequently no one was much surprised...
...last year. Under it he has thus far distributed to indigent farmers well over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists have dubbed the program "Batista's 300-Year Plan...
Unlike its predecessor which the House voted down last December, the bill which Mr. O'Connor's committee met to consider last week had the support of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. It called for a minimum wage of 25? an hour, rising 5? an hour annually for three years to a 40? an hour minimum in 1941; and a maximum hour schedule of 44 hours a week, reduced two hours a year to 40 hours in 1940. What the bill lacked was a regional differential to permit Southern industry to continue reflecting climatic...
...procedure which may take six months to work out under the complex machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act. And the unions might still strike when this arbitration period ended. Said Railway Labor's spokesman, Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association last week: "Wage cuts are out of the question...
WASHINGTON--The Administration tonight appeared to have the whiphand over Congress on whether the embattled wage-hour bill will be enacted. Its sweeping victory in yesterday's Florida primary in which the measure was a clear cut issue, threw an entirely new light on the battle and proponents forecast that recalcitrant, especially in the House, would now flock to the wage-hour standard...