Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friday's wage-price stabilization order did not go into detail. Lacking a fully staffed office in operation as yet, the N.P.A. has been unable to amplify the order in response to queries about the status of specific prices. The office will begin supplying such information later this week...
There was no longer room in the mobilization high command for opponents of immediate price and wage curbs. Mobilizer Wilson called Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine to his office and served him with an ultimatum: come up fast with a workable plan for controls or else. Valentine put in a distress call for the price czars of World War II days-Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired...
...That Evil Day." Specific details of the new control plan required a few more days for working out, but the long-talked-about probability had finally become a reality. Price and wage controls were on the way back again. Other Government controls were on the horizon. One was rationing, often the handmaiden of price and wage controls. Wilson thought that could be postponed indefinitely, perhaps even avoided. To the Senate Small Business committee he said: "If America can produce as I think it can produce, we can put off that evil...
...twelve years I've been here," replied Mulvihill, "the maids salaries have risen from 41 to 97 cents per hour. Since last year they've gotten a 12 cent wage boost. Why, when I first came here they were working every day but Christmas." The maids now work a five day week...
Gone Again. Cyrus S. Ching's nine-man Wage Stabilization Board, which is also under Valentine, was making no more progress toward stabilization than DiSalle. The C.I.O.'s Philip Murray and A.F.L. leaders warned Ching that they would not deal with his board until it was free of control by Valentine and until Ching had power to act on his own. Furthermore, they were willing to talk wage controls only after prices had been fully stabilized...