Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the U.S. last week, state governments were cautiously squeezing a little extra milk out of taxpayers. Since Jan. 1, 22 states had levied one or more new taxes, or had hiked up old ones. Faced with wage raises for public employees and increased operating costs, 15 states had passed cigaret tax laws; nine had raised taxes on liquor; four had started sales taxes. Taxpayers, long used to this kind of pasture milking, made no attempt to kick over the bucket. But there was a great deal of angry tail-switching...
...Arithmetic of Peace. No one was sure just what price Lewis had exacted in terms of hourly wage increases for his miners. The United Mine Workers said 35?; the operators said closer to 45?. The arithmetic was complicated by changing the $11.85 nine-hour day to a $13.05 eight-hour day (including an hour to travel from the mine portal to the face of the working and back, and a new half-hour lunch period). The arithmetic was further complicated by doubling the royalty paid into the miners' health & welfare fund to 110? a ton (between...
...Willing & Able." The railroads, which use 110 million tons of coal a year (about one-fifth of the nation's annual production), had been clamoring for higher rates in order to meet employees' demands for a 20?-an-hour wage boost even before the new coal prices hit them. Now they would be clamoring louder than ever...
...nation-wide coal shortage was definitely averted last night when the United Mine Workers policy committee ratified a new wage contract, which will send the minors back to work after it has been officially signed today with the northern operators. The contract is "national," meaning that operators all over the country must accept it before their men will return to the mines...
...auto workers, the plan was as revolutionary as Henry Ford's $5-a-day wage in 1914. This time it was Henry Ford II who pioneered in industrial statesmanship. He agreed to U.A.W. demands for a pension plan covering the Ford Motor Co.'s 107,000 workers in the Rouge and 32 other plants. The union estimates that some 5,000 workers are eligible for retirement at once...