Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory, Illinois' governor strained the enthusiasm of a strongly Democratic crowd with a serious discussion of inflation. Suggesting that tight price and wage controls might be necessary, he also made a point of governmental economy. Said he proudly: "I've vetoed more appropriations than any governor in the history of Illinois, and I kind of like the exercise...
Rumors of a change developed when Columbia University last week dropped its five-day service in favor of a once a week plan. Columbia officials blamed a wage increase for the curtailment of service...
According to the directors of the University Men's Residence Halls, the service curtailment will offset an increase in residence hall expenses. The new expenses resulted from a five-percent across the board wage increase granted over the summer to all Columbia maintenance employees...
Theoretical economist Edward H. Chamberlin, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, blamed the steal industry for the wage-increase cycle which "seems to be still in its early phases and . . . it seems likely to dominate in the near future and to indicate a slow but steady rise in the cost of living for the next few months...
Since General Motors became the first major company to tie wages to the cost of living four years ago, its contract with the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers has been virtually a one-way street. The net result to date has been a temporary cost-of-living wage boost of 26? an hour. Last week, to nobody's great surprise, the auto workers moved to keep things that way, guard against big wage cuts if the cost of living should fall. The union asked G.M. to include 21? of the boost in the permanent basic wage rate. Other...