Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner had John Lewis lumbered back to the showers than the C.I.O. danced into the ring. Last week it began its impatient fight for a second round of wage boosts. It was armed with a 71-page "report" for which it had paid Robert R. Nathan Associates, Inc. $12,000. Nathan's simple conclusion, which neatly fitted the C.I.O. strategy, was that management could indeed pay higher wages-and without raising prices...
...first full-dress reply of business to the report of economist Robert Nathan (which C.I.O. President Philip Murray said would be used as a guidepost in C.I.O. wage demands in steel, automobile and electrical manufacturing industries) was made by William K. Jackson, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Jackson said that after the first round of wage increases prices went up despite the argument that wages could be raised 24 percent without any price increase. He continued...
Jackson took exception to Murray's statement in Pittsburgh, where the big three C.I.O. unions are determining wage policy, in which Murray called for "peaceful settlement" of the new demands and said that "it is up to the industrialists"whether a new wave of strikes is to be avoided...
University of Chicago Roundtable (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). Topic: "Do We Need New Labor Legislation?" Speakers: Wage Stabilizer Willard Wirtz, University of Chicago law professor Charles O. Gregory, Economist Frederick H. Harbison...