Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University will not raise the pay of all student employees to a dollar an hour despite the new Federal minimum wage rate, Nicholai F. Wessel, associate director of Personnel, announced yesterday...
Concluded Slichter: "With Government spending rising, with residential construction slowly rising, with outlays of business on plant and equipment rising slowly, and with wage increases raising payrolls, an expansion of total expenditures in the closing months of the year seems inevitable...
...this predicament, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week, as several times before, sought to pin some of the blame for low farm prices on the meat packing industry. Said he, at a San Francisco gathering of the Western States Meat Packers Association: "Last August the packing industry granted wage increases equal to roughly a $50 million annual boost. Who paid for the increase? The evidence is that most of it was paid by ranchers and farmers-who paid by taking lower prices for meat animals." As evidence. Benson cited Agriculture Department figures showing that in the fourth quarter...
TEXTILES WORKERS will make their first bid for a wage boost since 1950. After holding the line (and even taking a 6½% wage cut in 1952) in the depressed industry, the Textile Workers Union is sending notices to employers that it will seek "substantial" wage and fringe benefits increases...
Harris continued by maintaining that the inroads the South has made on the textile industry are partially explainable by the difference in labor costs (the higher hourly wage in the North and the lower work loads). However, mergers related to tax advantages and special tax favors in behalf of the South are also important, he added...