Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although the Communist press calls him "an agent of the American imperialists," Dibelius refuses to preach a "crusade" against the Communists. As a Christian, he holds that his first duty, now as under the Nazis, is to "preserve the unity of the church of Jesus Christ," not to wage political warfare. As a German, he knows that his continued ministry to East as well as West helps keep alive some feeling of community in a divided country...
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Cried President Walter Reuther: "We say to the employers: 'We are not going to sign new [contracts] until you put into them guaranteed annual wages for the workers in our basic industries.' " Reuther announced that he had persuaded ten top economists and industrial relations experts (e.g., Harvard's Economists Seymour Harris and Alvin H. Hansen, Wisconsin's Edwin Witte) to serve as unpaid advisers to help smooth out the specific details of workable annual-wage plans...
...award was made by Paul Guthrie economics professor at the University of North Carolina and former member of the Wage Stabilization Board. He had been appointed by Harry Truman last December to settle the long pay haggle between 19 rail unions and 125 eastern, western and southeastern railroads. In his decision, Mediator Guthrie cited no specific ways in which rail workers had increased their productivity, simply held that rail workers are entitled to benefit from the better productivity of the whole U.S. economy. What made the decision even more surprising is the fact that the feather bedding railroad brotherhoods have...
Actually, said the railroad men, the 4? (which will hike the average rail wages to $1.90 an hour) was just another way of granting a flat raise. In agreements with the various brotherhoods in 1951-52, the roads had okayed a 22-½?-to 37?-an-hour wage increase. This, said the carriers, more than compensated for any productivity pay given in other industries. Of more long-range importance, Mediator Guthrie's award was bound to have a great effect on all collective bargaining. With the precedent set, there was no reason why any union could not demand productivity...