Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend money in Boston? Why wage a fruitless battle against wholesale revision of the parietal rules. What the supposedly senescent and slumbering law and graduate students are doing in the Graduate Center could at least be equalled by the fine flower of our student body in its tenements. The grass doesn't have to be greener on the other side of the fence. Frederick Holborn '49, 1 PA Lloyd Rudolph...
...license was granted by the State Minimum Wage Commission after a special request by the college on Saturday. Harvard and Wellesley had received the permit some time ago under the Commission's "Mandatory Order 28B," issued on June...
Within the next two days Radcliffe will receive a special educational employment license which will enable it to continue to pay lower than the standard minimum hourly wage. This permit will also allow payment on an hourly basis for work less than the three hours required by law, and is retroactive...
...most people who are salaried or paid by the hour, and to housewives stretching the family budget by buying cheap cabbage instead of costly spinach, the steady rise in living costs meant a steady drop in real earnings. But a million wage earners in the mass-production industries-including some 600,000 United Automobile Workers-have their pay hitched to Clague's index and ride up with it. For them, Clague's figures meant a 3?-an-hour pay raise which would cost employers $17 million. Thus the Government, by noting the actuality of inflation, automatically increased...
Clague's figures had a further effect: they took the fight out of the steel industry. Steel bowed to the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray and granted his near-million United Steelworkers an average 16?-an-hour wage increase. Steel then promptly raised its prices 5½%. A fifth round in steel, however, should not set off another round for everybody; all basic industries, except steel and John Lewis' coal diggers, had already got a raise since the Korean war began. Before Ewan Clague's cost-of-living index inched up again, there was a good chance...