Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here?" he asked an aide plaintively. Truman got Lucas on the phone, brushed aside his explanations, and laid down the law. There would be no adjournment, Truman said, until his minimum program was passed. That included federal aid to education, housing and slum clearance and a 75/ minimum wage. He wanted at least a token civil-rights bill- either antilynching or anti-poll tax. Truman conceded that there was no chance this session for his health program, major civil-rights legislation, or his $4 billion tax increase...
...same time, however, a conflicting report, touting a relatively bright outlook for prospective wage-earners was issued by the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company...
...Reuther's heart was clearly not in his work. With new contract negotiations coming up within a week, he would have preferred to save the strike weapon to push through the union's 1949 demands for wage increases, pensions, and a health program. His hand had been forced by the tough, Communist-led faction in U.A.W.'s huge, 59,000-member Rouge Local 600, which had snowballed the speed-up into a major issue of union politics...
...Electric at Lynn, Mass., manufacturers of jet engines. They were taught that when another "heavy depression" hit the U.S., the time would have arrived to destroy its Government; that if the U.S. adopted an "imperialist" policy, i.e., one opposed to the policy of the Soviet Union, the party must wage "civil...
...Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy.") At a union meeting in the church basement, after Mass, the strikers were asked if they wanted to continue the blockade. There was a unanimous "Oui." Then...