Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only other large-scale incident of this kind occurred during the war at the Business School. At that time, food poisoning of 500 service men caused Army and Navy officials to wage a long investigation over the causes...
...Communist leaders of France's coal strike, which in less than a month had cost the nation 3,000,000 tons of coal, last week tipped their hand. From Communist headquarters came a statement: "The miners' struggle is not only to secure legitimate wage adjustments, but also a struggle for the defense of national independence . . . threatened by American imperialists striving to drag our country into...
Wearing their sheep's clothing when they first called the strike, the Reds had asked for wage raises to meet the cost of living, which had begun to soar again with the recurrent cabinet crises of last summer. Non-Communist miners and even the general public could sympathize with that. Premier Henri Queuille's government offered wage raises amounting to about 15%. But the Reds stalled, and last week in some areas they. called out maintenance crews who manned pumps and ventilators in the mines...
...Britain all classes are having a tough time, but the middle class is having the worst time of all. The moneyed aristocrats (formerly known as the "ruling class") have to dip into their capital, but they are still vastly better off than anybody else. The working classes have had wage raises to meet the cost of living, and are otherwise taken care of by a solicitous Labor government...
...soft spots were also changing the wage pattern. In Haverhill, Mass., shoe companies asked 5,000 workers to take a "drastic wage reduction." The same day some 2,000 workers in the Western Electric Co. plant at Haverhill got raises of 8^ to 13(# an hour...