Word: wage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chuckles much in whiskers, and the twinkle in his eye is really there. On the public side he has come to represent something new to liberals. Besides voting on the liberal side in pre-New Deal cases, he wrote the dissenting (liberal) opinion in the New York Minimum Wage Law case, and declined to go so far as the majority in throwing out the Guffey Coal Act lock, stock & barrel. Yet he is definitely in liberal disfavor, not so much because of his anti-New Deal votes in other cases, as for something they sense in his attitude...
Turning aside from his organization drives for the moment, the Sit-Down's boldest tactician, C. I. O. Boss Lewis, resumed his role as president of United Mine Workers, settled down in Manhattan for a long haggle with soft-coal operators over a new two-year wage & hour contract to replace the one expiring March 31. Coal trouble still threatened. Automobile trouble was only quiescent.* Steel trouble was almost certain, and last week in Texas it was reported that April 5 the C. I. O. would launch a great drive to organize Oil. In all of those impending struggles...
...present standard of living for the typical wage earner is far too low, he pointed out, and he backed this statement with recently compiled statiitics. To remedy this situation, full production must be maintained in all our industries in order to supply these needs...
Future debates will have as subjects the following questions, in all of which the Yardlings will take the affirmative: Congress' power to enact minimum wage and maximum hours legislation for industry, the President's proposed judiciary reform measures, and the sitdown strike as a legal weapon of labor...
...York City, Baltimore, Denver, Los Angeles, Altoona, Pa., Ann Arbor, Mich., Charleston, S. C., Tucson, Ariz. The shortage had by no means reached the boom stage, when contractors "pirate" building mechanics on their way to work, enticing them away from other contractors with extra-fancy bonuses. But the bonus wage in 1937 is no longer a half-forgotten legend...