Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workers usually strike against management to force the acceptance of their demands. The current coal strike does not fit this definition; it is against the Wage Stabilization Board, and successful or not, it is unreasonable...
...After a speech by Boss John L. Lewis (who has not publicly supported a presidential candidate since he broke with Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and supported Willkie), the United Mine Workers' convention in Cincinnati whooped through a resolution endorsing Adlai Stevenson. The Mine Workers' $1.90-a-day wage increase, won in negotiations with mine operators last month, is pending before the Wage Stabilization Board in Washington...
...floor of Hesse's Landtag last week to report. Said Zinn: BDJ had been created and bankrolled by the U.S. Moreover, on U.S. orders, BDJ had set up within itself a clandestine little army called the "Technical Service." Its function: to sabotage Soviet communications and supply depots and wage guerrilla warfare in case Russia should invade West Germany. Periodically, BDJ units went to a secret camp in Odenwald forest for U.S.-supervised training in Russian, American and German weapons, including machine guns, grenades and knives. These elite "youths," said Zinn, were between 35 and 50 years old, all former...
...Wage Stabilization Board seemed in no hurry last week to okay Lewis' new contract boosts. The problem was that the new wages would put miners' salaries over the maximum increase allowed under WSB regulations. But thousands of miners, irked at the delay, started to walk...
...back of the Eisenhower train, noted Truman, was a sign reading "Look Ahead, Neighbor." Cracked the President: "What it ought to say is this, 'Look Out, Neighbor.' " If the Republicans should win, said Harry, the voters would have to look out for mortgage foreclosures, 1932-style unemployment, wage cuts and World...