Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hike in the tax on dividends paid out by private companies. This was Butler's sop to the trade unions, which had promised to hold back on wage demands if dividends were restrained...
...moths. Last week things went even farther. One hundred of the boldest priests met and announced that, since intercession with the gods is industrial employment like any other, they had formed themselves into the Ahmedabad Jain Temple Priests Trade Union. From temple committees they demanded: an $8 minimum monthly wage, one day off a week, seven days' paid sick leave a year, three weeks' paid vacation annually, and the payment of a lump sum to a priest when he retires, or to his family if he dies in harness...
...rich Jains who compose the temple committees were appalled. Complained one: "How can priests be dedicated to poverty if they go about forming unions and making wage demands?" Gasped another: "Who will perform puja [ritual prayer] before the gods when the temple priests are having their...
...Westinghouse offered a complex wage plan amounting to a minimum 23½?-an-hour increase spread over five years, said that this, together with various other benefits, matched the raise given recently by G.E. The G.E. agreement, replied Union President James B. Carey, gives workers total gains of 18¼? an hour in the first year, compared with 10? to 11? in the Westinghouse proposal...
Canadian newsprint producers argued that they have had to earmark a high percentage of profits for costly mill expansion to add 900,000 tons to Canada's annual capacity, as well as pay out 15% wage increases in the three years and three months since the last price hike. Even though St. Lawrence profits for the first half of 1955 were 37.3% ahead of the 1954 level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked...