Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More came every year. In 1948 the U.S. and Mexican governments tried to channel and control the migration, signed a series of pacts by which Mexico agreed to send labor crews across the border for specific jobs, and that the U.S. would guarantee them a "prevailing wage," housing and insurance. It was like making international agreements about locusts...
...Mexican migrants rebelled at delays and red tape. U.S. farmers, by & large, boycotted the agreement too. They had come to consider the wetbacks as a cheap, natural resource, as rightfully theirs as rain or good soil. Forced to choose between lawbreaking or paying legally imported Mexican "Nationalists" a fair wage, many farmers chose, without hesitation, to break the law. After all, wetbacks would work-and are working-for as little as 20? an hour, a wage comparable to that skilled labor receives in Mexico.They do not argue, do not agitate, do not complain; if they do, they can always...
...them in the auto industry, are entitled to pay increases on the strength of BLS's report last week. Another million non-operating railroad workers became eligible for a 6?-an-hour pay boost even though more than a 2? increase would put them over the legal wage ceiling. Their contracts, negotiated since the wage freeze, did not have the government's O.K. and presumably ran counter to other segments of Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston's policy. Would he stop them? Washington, the U.S., waited...
Despite insistent opposition demands for price and wage controls, the government stood by its argument that full controls probably would not work except in a full war emergency. When he presents the budget next month, Abbott is expected to maintain revenues well in excess of need (1951-52 estimates: $3.58 billion) and thus take more money out of circulation. He may also reinvoke the compulsory savings scheme used in World War II. Only if the fiscal brake fails will wage and price controls be tried...
Nobody will accuse Governor Dewey of extraordinary dishonesty or political corruption. His administration of New York State has been far from scandalous. And if he should now wage successful war against crime in New York, he will be doing the nation an inestimable service...