Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When negotiations with the union began last fall, the stores not only balked at wage increases but insisted that the driver-helper and parcel-post featherbedding clauses be modified. After the strike began on Dec. i, Dave Beck, the Teamsters' international boss, asked both sides to arbitrate. Management's answer was that its right to use the Government mails was hardly a subject for arbitration. The local union also rejected Beck's plea and the strike broke out in violence. Store windows were smashed, paint and gasoline bombs thrown against cars of customers and nonstrikers...
...MINIMUM WAGES for retail store employees, now exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, are being studied by the Labor Department, though it does not plan to try to amend the act this session. When Labor Secretary James Mitchell, himself an ex-retailer, proposed a wage floor at a retailers' convention in Washington last week, retailers angrily said that they would fight any such move...
...Lajolo was a topflight Fascist newsman who fought on the side of Mussolini's Blackshirts in Spain before returning to Communism. The staff is paid well below the minimum for Italy's non-Communist newsmen, although L'Unità led the campaign for the minimum newspaper wage on Italian papers...
...able to pay taxes for expensive city services. Lower tax returns, in turn, mean more crowding and more slums. Says Detroit City Planner Paul Reid: "Newcomers, for the most part, are in the lower economic level. As they settle in the city, others who have attained medium or high wage levels move out." Furthermore, those moving to the suburbs are often among the most civic-minded citizens; thus the cities lose leadership as well as customers...
...months ago, the engravers went on strike and 20,000 other newspaper employees refused to cross their picket lines. The eleven-day strike shut down Manhattan's dailies, cost the papers a total of more than $10 million in revenue and the employees more than $2,000.000 in wages. The engravers, among the highest-paid newspaper employees, finally agreed to go back to work and submit their differences (a $7.50 weekly wage increase v. $3.75 offered by the publishers) to a three-man fact-finding committee. Last week the fact finders announced their verdict (with the union member dissenting...