Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fact was that Harry's strike was never necessary. The shipowners had offered his longshoremen wage boosts, had agreed to let his union run the hiring halls until the Supreme Court should rule on their legality under the Taft-Hartley Act. East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes maritime unions had accepted similar terms. But Bridges struck anyway...
...bilingual college would provide for both. As its founder, and the first Bishop of Bytown, Monsignor Joseph Eugene Bruno Guigues, put it: "These young men living and growing up together would soon come to know and to esteem each other, and while preserving their national idiosyncrasies, would learn to wage side by side the good fight for God and country...
...Truman stands for in the way of domestic institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake. In January, 1946, the President asked Congress for minimum wage and full employment legislation, for an adequate housing program, and for a Fair Employment Practices Act. His subsequent domestic policies--and his 62 vetoes--have followed in the same direction. Mr. Truman has pushed for a liberal displaced persons bill, for strong civil rights legislation, for social security expansion...
...cent receives higher education, professional people will soon glut the market. This could not hold for the community college. Its graduate would not gain an LLB. or an M.D.; he would receive a B.G.S.; signifying that he had become a keener citizen by two years, a more useful wage earner by two years, a wiser family man by two years. What community or what nation can suffer because it is too alert, too prosperous, too wise...
Annual election is not such a solution. A leader who knows he must run for his job every twelve months must be constantly campaigning. He must make demands and produce wage boosts and other concessions every year if he is to keep his job. With such pressure behind him at the bargaining table, he cannot concede even to legitimate management claims. His concrete achievements must surpass even the airy promises of rival factions. The employers who propose this measure in the interests of "union democracy" are doing a disservice to the cause of good labor-management relations. And they will...