Word: wage
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...costly deficit operation paid for by millions of taxpayers in amounts out of all proportion to the postal services that they as individuals receive." His other reasons for the veto: the bill 1) discriminates against rural letter carriers, special-delivery messengers and "many" supervisors and postmasters; 2) enormously complicates wage-calculating procedures; and 3) goes beyond his recommendation for a 6½% raise, which itself is "substantially greater" than the rise in living costs since the last wage levels were...
...made the mistake of proposing a rent-increase bill that satisfied no one. Everybody agreed that something had to be done about housing (one family in six still has to share with another), but Dutch housing is bedeviled by a shortage of building workers, by wage controls that destroy incentive, by cartels that keep material costs high, and by inequitable rent controls (rents have been allowed to go up 40% on prewar houses, while the cost of living has gone up 200% since 1939). Premier Drees' makeshift bill did little to overcome all this. In The Netherlands such difficulties...
Billy Graham has currently drawn much bigger crowds on his preaching tour of Great Britain than Labour and Conservative campaigners for the oncoming election. But tomorrow polling booths will replace soapboxes and even the pulpit as the center of attention. Tory defenders and Socialist contenders will wage their final battle on each Britisher's ballot. Yet the very fact of Graham's large turnouts suggests that few election issues have been not enough to divert interest from him. Although some Labourites, like Aneurin Bevan, have themselves campaigned as evangelists, the general prediction of both bookies and "univacs" is that Britain...
...acting in bad faith and with little regard for the welfare of their employees, the Massachusetts manufactures can expect little public support for their case. They should, instead, work with the mediation board to settle the current dispute while maintaining realistic wage rates...
Outside the Brooklyn Eagle one day last week, a ring of pickets circled the plant. The striking Guildsmen, whose wage and benefit demands closed the paper down (TIME, Feb. 28, et seq.), still did not believe Publisher Frank Schroth's announcement that he would never reopen. "We're not convinced" said one Guildsman. "We're not really sure they're folding." Inside the Eagle building, Publisher Schroth sadly demonstrated in the only way he could that the paper was closed down for good. Unable to find a buyer for the Eagle, Schroth...