Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long lines of volunteers sprang up outside Tel Aviv and Jerusalem headquarters, and by week's end the first 500 volunteers left Jerusalem for Negev villages. When trade union federation bosses voted to demand a 5% wage rise, Premier David Ben-Gurion delivered a slashing attack on them for blindness to the need for sacrifices. "The question is," he said, "shall we equip army, navy and air force to enable them to repel the enemy or shall we raise our standard of living?" The answer came from the trade union's own newspaper Davar: "The nation must gird...
...worker, a clerk, for instance, at the Banque de I'Indochine. But slim, delicate, bronzed Monique Izzi, daughter of a half-French, half-Italian father and a Cambodian mother, had quite another idea. Better, she thought, a real prince, even a Cambodian one with concubines, than a mere wage-earning European. A fragile and lovely center of interest in a bikini bathing suit by the pool at Le Cercle Sportif, Monique gave the cold shoulder to all European suitors and bided her time...
LABOR PEACE for the often-struck Northwest lumber industry seems assured until June 1957. Lumbermen announced an 18-month agreement with 80,000 of some 100,000 workers, including more than 30,000 members of the International Woodworkers of America. Industry pattern calls for an approximate 4¼% wage increase (about 9? per hour) that will add more than $20 million to the industry's annual costs...
...office only by exits and leave through entrances. Scores wait under the lottery-office clock until the hour strikes before buying a ticket. One regular buyer steadfastly refuses to enter the lottery office until the nearby traffic lights turn green. Australian clergymen who deplore gambling as a "national malady" wage a losing war against the state lotteries; the Roman Catholic Church runs its own lotteries...
...Five. The strike began on Oct. 17, when a deadlock at the bargaining table erupted into the streets and onto the picket lines. The union insisted on a one-year contract with a 15? hourly wage hike. To meet competition and provide for long-range planning, Westinghouse demanded a five-year contract, with yearly raises amounting to 23.5? an hour by 1961-terms similar to but not identical with those agreed upon by the union and General Electric. But there was a deeper issue. Westinghouse is trying to put through a companywide, time-study program aimed at increasing production efficiency...