Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program will include four panels, covering the problems of production price and wage controls, and coordination of controls...
Summer H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor and member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration, said that wage controls, though necessary, were impossible without labor's support, which he believes is not forthcoming. He predicted a seven percent wage increase for 1951 and an approximate 25 billion dollar personal income increase...
Leverett House yesterday offered $1000 for half of Winthrop and threatened to wage "a war of defense" if it wasn't ceded peacefully...
...Queuille's plans for a new government, no party's sentiments were overlooked. He offered the Socialists and other leftist deputies an increase in the minimum wage. Rightists were assured that resulting price boosts would not be offset by widespread consumer subsidies. Queuille promised the farmers a subsidy on commercial fertilizer prices, the workers a subsidy to keep coal and electricity prices from rising more than 10%. He said that he would raise funds for the new subsidies as painlessly as possible, by taxes on "uncommon goods" and exports...
...Australia, a Communist-led dockers' union has just relaxed a costly, month-old slowdown strike over a variety of wage and overtime issues which the Government charged were pretexts to hide the real reason: the Communist plot to slow down the British Commonwealth rearmament. The Australian government has tried in vain to deport British-born James ("Big Jim") Healy, Communist boss of the dockers. Last week Australia's efforts to cope with Communism received a heavy blow when the High Court voided a 1950 law outlawing the Communist Party and giving the government power to "declare" union officials...