Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fulbright pushed through Congress a bill under which the courts could review U.S. Department of Labor prevailing minimum wage orders. His purpose was plain. Under the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, the Department of Labor had set nationwide minimum wages for manufacturers and suppliers holding $10,000 or more in Government contracts. Since the Labor Department's minimums were affecting the wage scale throughout the textile industry, Southern textile men wanted to attack the order in court. After Fulbright put through the amendment, the Southern manufacturers sued to wipe out the national minimum of $1 an hour in cotton...
...Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff (who upheld Harry Truman's seizure of the steel industry in 1952, and was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court) ruled on the case. Judge Holtzoff pointed out that the Walsh-Healey Act permits the Department of Labor to set minimum wages by "locality," but said that blanketing the whole U.S. under that term is a "tortured interpretation."* His conclusion: the Labor Department cannot set nationwide minimum wage rates under the Walsh-Healey...
...amendment: "What the court said, in effect, is that it is quite proper for employers in one section of the country to pay less for the same work as long as they can get away with it. Under this kind of reasoning we should also abolish the federal minimum wage law [under which the minimum is 75? an hour]. If Judge Holtzoff's philosophy prevails, we shall have taken a long step backward toward the sweatshop and the slums...
Little progress was made in trying to settle the strike, called by maintenance and electrical workers. The 700 strikers, who earn $34.37 a week for nightwork and $29.33 for daywork, rejected a $2 wage increase from the publishers. Last week one paper settled the strike in its own shop: the Communist Daily Worker (circ. 83,376). Meanwhile, the other newspapers were losing an estimated $5.7 million a week...
...battle for the guaranteed annual wage in the auto industry got off to a start last week in an atmosphere of small-town friendliness. Gone was the hostility that has occasionally marked the opening of contract negotiations between the C.I.O's United Automobile Workers and General Motors. As the bargaining teams gathered in a carpeted conference room of Detroit's massive G.M. Building, there were beaming smiles all around. On one side of the 20-ft. glass-topped table sat the 18-man auto workers' committee, led by Vice President Jack Livingston, 46, one of the founders...