Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striking clerks, pages and elevator operators returned to their jobs on the New York Curb Exchange. The members of Local 205, United Financial Employes, A.F.L. had won little: the Curb agreed to change its pre-strike offer of a temporary 10% cost-of-living bonus to a straight 10% wage raise, but it did not grant demands for a union shop and it insisted on a two-year contract...
...competitors into a joint public-relations campaign to straighten out such misconceptions, but they refused. So five years ago he started his one-man campaign. In newspaper ads, he plugged the theme that "America's Fifth Freedom Is Free Enterprise," with cartoons and folksy parables discussing profits and wage rate-production relationships. Taylor tried the same trick with his annual reports, now thinks that in television he has found the best method...
...masons walked out April 1 after negotiations to renew their freshly-expired contract had failed to reach a wage figure acceptable to both the union and the contractors. The bricklayers are asking a 35 cent an hour raise over the $2.15 amount they received under the old contract. The Fuller Contracting Company has countered by proffering a 20 cent hourly increase...
...Council has set up a special investigating committee to figure out where the added money can come from. Haveles's committee recommends, as a starter, a 65 cent minimum wage for student employees of the University--"except for most library and baby-sitting jobs...
...club will back liberal Democrats for local, state, and national office, and will work for an all-inclusive federal civil rights law. Other planks in the platform are the maintenance of rent controls for the duration of the housing shortage, a 70 cent hourly minimum wage, and extension of Social Security benefits...