Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a few specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
...disintegration of the Ashida cabinet left Japan in a political vacuum, just when a special Diet session was due to discuss a new minimum wage level for government employees (present level: about $14 a month). More serious was the resulting complete disillusionment with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...
Three days after the inaugural, Prío would have his first test. Havana bus workers were scheduled to strike for higher wages promised earlier by Grau. The company had cried that it could not afford to pay them. Grau's answer would have been a subsidy from the boom-filled treasury. In his inaugural address to congress, Prío announced that he had persuaded the country's businessmen to cut food prices 10% (thus presumably washing out the need for a wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy...
...Wages & Prices. Though experts grant Prío two more years of sugar prosperity (almost 80% of the national income comes from sugar), sugar prices are already off 20%. When planters last summer demanded a proportionate cut in wages, Grau ducked the issue, left it on the desk for Prío. Would he enforce a wage cut? That was the biggest question Carlos Prío would have to face...
...Cadet's annual pay comes to $973 per annum, out of which sum he must provide all his expenses including books and the 16 different uniforms required. In the words of Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, Superintendent of the Academy, "This stipend being probably the lowest wage scale in the United States, the Cadet must exercise the utmost frugality to keep a balanced budget...