Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wages. Leaves present power to freeze wages virtually unchanged. A Wage Stabilization Board will continue to have authority to make "readjustments" upward through the ceilings...
...popularity is on the upswing again. After hitting a new low in June, he started a comeback with the Korean peace talks, the Gallup poll reported. But it still found only 29% of the people approving him. ¶ Succeeded in his first effort to end a strike through the Wage Stabilization Board. Nine hundred members of the United Steel Workers ( C.I.O.) voted to go back to work at the Garfield, Utah plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., after the President said defense production was threatened...
...would-be Premiers failed chiefly because the Catholic M.R.P. party and the Socialists refuse to compromise on a burning domestic issue: state aid to church schools. The M.R.P. demands state aid, the Socialists are resolutely opposed. Another complication: the Socialists want a sliding wage scale pegged to the cost of living; other parties are against it, fearing that France's inflation would get worse. Spurned so far by the center parties: any deal with the Gaullists or Communists, who between them command 224 seats in the 627-seat Assembly...
Spite & Suspicion. The Poage amendment was beaten. So was an amendment guaranteeing a four-month freeze as of July 7 on all wages and prices (except rents and farm prices), whipped up by James C. Davis of Stone Mountain, Ga. to embarrass the Administration and give the coalition the alibi that they had tried to get "real" controls. The amendment would enrage labor, which is still trying to get wage "readjustments," would freeze all present price inequities which Di Salle would like to correct...
University employees have received contracts for the coming year with a general five percent raise in pay. The janitors took a cut in hours, from 44 to 40, with the same total weekly pay in preference to a wage increase without shorter hours...