Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief Council meeting at Phillips Brooks House also directed the committee studying wage rates in the Student Employment Office to report next Monday and discussed the problem of hospitality to visiting athletic teams...
Most of these men graft to live, and there is no possible way to stop this sort of graft until all Government employees, military and civilian, receive a living wage. But raising of Government salaries will increase the inflation, inflation will raise the cost of living, the rising cost of living will quickly absorb the raises in salaries, graft will start again-nobody will be better off. How can China break this vicious circle...
...miners' demand for a 55-peso ($2.20) daily minimum wage had been rejected; the company's counter offer of a 15% pay rise (16?) had been turned down. A month's patient mediating by the Government had ended in failure. Last week, the coal miners of Lota stayed in their grubby little dirt-floor huts on the edge of the Pacific and the strike...
Because hard-pressed Chile needed Lota's coal to keep railroads and power plants going, President Gabriel González Videla sent troops to Lota, used his emergency powers (TIME, Sept. 1) to order strikers back to the mines, offered a 40% wage increase. At week's end, the miners still stood fast...
...industry's history, the overall prospect for 1947 was still a loss. The airlines were in no shape to boost the sagging airframe industry; they ruefully informed the commission that they had already overbought on new equipment. All had been caught in the squeeze of higher wage, supply and other costs. And postwar traffic was below their high hopes...