Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last official word from the university was President Whitney A. Griswold's statement earlier in the week that he did not see how the union demands for a ten-cent-an-hour wage increase could possibly be met. "We have strained our resources to the limit," he said...
...even more so than of justice in the courts and of the vote." This definition of the Negro's needs is today strikingly out of date. ^ For most Negroes, the problem is no longer jobs, but better jobs; for many, it is no longer bread, but cake. The Negro wage earner today makes four times as much as in 1940 (compared to the white wage earner's 2½ times as much). The Negro's average yearly income is still only a little more than half of the white average, but ten years ago it was about...
...public did not notice the increase. But fabricators, who are well aware of the steel industry's good earnings (see below). did. (So did the steelworkers. whose demands for another wage increase were called unjustifiable last week by Big Steel's Ben Fairless.) The fabricators raised the question whether steel, the bellwether of the economy, did not have a responsibility to hold the line on prices, now that the economy had been freed of controls. As one steel user said: "Either these fellows are going along with the new Administration or they aren't. I think they...
...Biggest gainer of all was Bethlehem, which reported sales up 7.3% to a record $500,407,927 and earnings up 63.6% to $30,961,033. But though steelmakers' earnings were good, none of the companies thought they were good enough to absorb an industry wage increase (see above) or higher costs. Said Bethlehem's Chairman Eugene G. Grace: "Since the war, we have now spent in construction something over $600 million, and it's about time we were getting some benefits from...
...strike began today as Roy Case, union president, demanded a ten cent an hour wage increase, restriction on student employment, double pay for Sunday work, and a union shop...