Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring, Round No. 3 would be going full blast. The C.I.O.'s two giants, the steelworkers and the autoworkers, would both go to bat on new contracts in April. The steelworkers' Phil Murray planned to drive hard for an annual wage. The autoworkers' Walter Reuther wanted a price roll-back,* but did not expect to get it. In Washington last week, Reuther said: "What we're after is not dollars but purchasing power. If industry and Congress keep on failing to reduce prices, we will fight on the only front open to us-wages...
Harry Bridges' left-handed grip on Hawaii's sugar, pineapple and dock workers (TIME, Dec. 22) had never seemed tighter. He seemed coolly confident and was flexing his muscles for another wage fight with the planters and shippers next February. A vice president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, one J. R. Robertson, had gone out from San Francisco to stir up the shock troops and build up a $200,000 "war chest" (one day's pay a month from each of the I.L.W.U.'s 35,000 members...
Pollitt then laid out the party tactics. By encouraging Britain's workers to demand higher wages and a bigger slice from British production, Communists would try to upset Cripps's carefully calculated program for economic recovery. "In our anxiety to drive for increased production," said Pollitt, "we have sometimes done far too little in the fight for wages and conditions. . . . No further cuts . . . must be tolerated and steps [must be] taken to secure immediate wage advances to meet the rising costs of living...
What Industrialist Wilson wanted to hear was a guarantee from unions that they would not ask for a third round of wage increases next year. If such a guarantee was given, he said, then industry could afford to roll back prices next year...
...U.A.W.'s redheaded Walter Reuther spoke up. Organized labor, said he, would gladly trade another round of wage increases for lower prices. But "up to now, neither industry nor Congress has seen fit to take the initiative...