Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underpaid, overtaxed wage earner, it is difficult to describe my disgust at reading ''A Federal Sales Tax" [Sept...
After 80 days of one of the friendliest strikes in U.S. newspaper history, editorial staffers last week settled their disagreements with the Seattle evening Times (circ. 214,377). Terms of the settlement: a wage increase of up to 7% per week ($2.50 to $7) and an increase in editorial maximums (to $109) and fringe benefits. The Newspaper Guild, which wanted a 7-8% boost, and the Times, which offered 3-5%, were never very far apart financially or even socially. Throughout the strike, picketing staffers chatted amiably with members of the Times management entering the plant, and even got together...
...concern for their welfare and plans for their betterment. That many of these leaders have used this concern as a front for gambling, racketeering and extrotion has long been evident. But this fact has been necessarily overbalanced in the workers' minds by the leaders' evident success at raising the wage and work standards of the shipping industry. As long as the public was ignoring them, they felt, why should they not at least partly ignore the public's moral prohibitions? It is no wonder, then, that the Al of L should have such trouble shaking locals off the International Longshoreman...
...They Want Out. One reason for this state of affairs is full employment. Even in 1946 and 1947, the uncertainties of civilian life kept much good officer and N.C.O. material in uniform. In the last few years, however, almost no civilian has wanted for some kind of employment. Wages in manufacturing industries have risen to 270% of 1940 wage scales. Military pay during the same period has had no such rapid increase...
Early Birds. While "manufacturers who capitalized in years past upon the economic immaturity of the South profited handsomely," others are now finding the opportunities dwindling. Example: a textile machinery manufacturer who needed to rebuild his plants found that a 10% wage differential favored relocation in the South, but decided that in five years there would be no "substantial differential in wages." Average hourly production wage rates are actually higher in such Southern cities as Birmingham ($1.51) and Memphis ($1.44) than in Manchester, N.H. ($1.41) and Lancaster, Pa. ($1.43). As for state and local taxes, a University of North Carolina study...