Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor argued that since May 1945 price rises had exceeded wage gains (see chart, col. 3). Food prices, which make up 43% of the average budget, had zoomed past all wage increases. Labor had won a higher living standard during the war and seemed determined to keep...
...front, he directed his "moral suasion" toward business. Business, he said, had wanted free enterprise. Now let's see them make it work. He went further. He hinted strongly that if business did not bring prices down, he would back Labor's demands for another round of wage boosts...
...negotiations with A.T. & T. dragged along without sign of bearing fruit. Company officials made no counter wage offers, refused every effort to place the bargaining on an industrywide basis...
WASHINGTON, April 13--CIO President Philip Murray said today that industrialists, delaying wage raises until Congress acts on Labor bills, threaten to force great strikes in America...
...they are willing to deal with the problem in a manner inclined to insure confidence in the future prosperty of the nation. Although a few concerns--Ford, International Harvester, Chrysler to name some--have cut their prices, most have refused to talk about any slashes in their goods until wage negotiations have been completed, and they have swallowed the union's annual bad news...