Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council boasted the only undefeated record in the ninth annual meet. The debate question was: "Resolved, That the non-agricultural industries of the United States should guarantee their employees an annual wage." Arguing for the affirmative were David P. Bryden '57, who won the prize for the best affirmative speaker, and Robert M. O'Neil '56, and for the negative, Robert H. King '57 and Robert W. Scrivner...
...Faced with a peasant upheaval, party bosses had ordered a slowdown to "consolidate" the 650,000 collectives formed so far. Communist newspapers reported that scarcely one-third of these collectives were operating, and few of these kept books so that members could be paid properly, according to the wage points their labor had earned them. In fact, they admitted, few kept books...
...working 18 hours a day, as many do who show the 11% profit, and use 12-and 13-year-old children to work as unpaid labor. Your city labor is working for shorter hours. Mr. Benson tells the farmer to work longer hours for less hourly wage. The farm situation is dangerous because the farmer and his family are damn...
GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE suffered its first major setback in Ohio, where voters turned down a referendum to allow workers to collect unemployment pay simultaneously from the state and private industry. If Ohio does not approve dual unemployment compensation by the June 1, 1957 deadline, Ford and G.M. employees in Ohio will take advantage of a substitute contract provision under which they would alternate between state payments and company benefits calculated to help make up the difference...
...full-time employees of Lament, there are only three male professional librarians who would be eligible to work during the extended hours. Federal wage and hour laws prohibit late night work for women...