Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after ICC granted the Pullman boosts, all U.S. railroads were at its door with a new request for freight increases- needed, they said, to make up for a 15½?-an-hour wage raise to 1,000,000 employees. The railroads, which had asked ICC in July to increase rates an average of 16.7%, now asked that this be raised to 27%. The proposed new rates would cost the nation's shippers...
...consider the so-called "bonanza" of some $200,000,000 to be doing all right by us. We prefer lower prices, adequate housing, a VA free of politics, an FEPC, an increased minimum wage, and a guaranteed annual wage...
...soon be forced to choose between his bowstrings. The Army blame his labor laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country's deteriorating economy; but if he tries to withdraw the favors granted, he runs the risk of losing labor support. If he does nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week...
...Latin America with longtime leftist sympathies. In addition to its other failings, the Velasco Government had done little to combat the country's postwar inflation, which is one of the highest in the hemisphere. Last week the Sucre, which was once a worker's daily wage, stood at 13 to the dollar...
...amount of featherbedding. Almost as soon as he learns the union's rules-such as the one forbidding editors to lay a hand on type -an apprentice learns how relentlessly the I.T.U. will take care of him. In a strike, it will pay up to 60% of his wage. In old age, it will pay him a pension, or put him up at the cozy Printers' Home at Colorado Springs. When he dies, it will fork over $50 to $500 in death benefits...