Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President nominated Philip W. Bonsai, 51, a veteran diplomat, to be Ambassador to Colombia, and Newell Brown, 37, New Hampshire publisher and onetime secretary to Sherman Adams, to be Wage-Hour Administrator...
Political spokesmen for organized labor, echoing Democratic campaigners of last fall, still refer to 1954 as a recession year. But union economists last week reported to the American Federation of Labor executive council in Miami Beach, Fla. that wage increases in 1954 "provided more of a gain in real wages [e.g., purchasing power] than increases in other postwar years, for they were almost entirely over and beyond the amount needed to compensate for rises in the cost of living." The report showed that two-thirds of 1954 union-management contracts brought wage increases of 5? to 9? and about...
What the U.A.W. wants is a guarantee of a weekly wage for 52 weeks a year for all its hourly paid workers. If a man is called in one day and then laid off, says Reuther, he should get paid for the whole week. If he is notified in advance of a one-week layoff or more, then he should get enough to "maintain the same living standards as when fully employed." The payments, says U.A.W. with a hint to employers, should be integrated with state unemployment-compensation benefits so that "employers can reduce their liabilities by effectively working toward...
...auto workers reason that a guaranteed annual wage would put a curb on "irresponsible production scheduling," make employment even through the year. To keep sales constant, U.A.W. would like the auto industry to give dealers more incentive (i.e., greater profits) to sell cars in the normally lean winter months, less for summertime sales. After all, argues the union, most auto executives and white-collar workers have what amounts to a guaranteed annual wage. Why not one for the production-line employees...
Twenty Widener Library scrubwomen had to quit their jobs in 1929 because for nine years, contrary to a State law, they had been working at two cents under the 35 cent hourly wage minimum. The following spring, however, a champion enlisted their cause. He was Corliss Lamont '24. At the head of an indignant alumni group he offered personally to solicit from other alumni the scrubwomen's back pay," amounting to $280 each, if the University did not reimburse hem, which it promptly did. This militant defense of the underdog is characteristic of Lamont. From the moment he found himself...