Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wage peace, I think, more effectively on that account...
Erhard reacted typically, alternating threats with exhortation. To unions he pleaded for deferment of wage demands, simultaneously made threatening noises about compulsory savings. To employers he talked of production norms and price ceilings. When unemployment topped 1,500,000, he beat off a censure move in the Bundestag by a scant majority. "Your policy," jeered Socialist Erik Nolting, "only makes the rich richer and the poor poorer...
...such rages, tricks and cajolements, the cherub-cheeked minister has kept Germany on the path of free enterprise through five years of rising prosperity in an inflation-ridden world. The coalmen's price break threatened other rises from steel to bread; trade unions broke into a chorus of wage demands, topped by the 1,600,000-member Metal Workers Union's cry for a 10% boost...
Kohler will appeal the ruling to the full NLRB. The company argued that some of the discharged workers were only temporary employees, working on Government contracts, who were laid off when the contracts were terminated. As for the wage raise, said Kohler, it was offered to the union and turned down before the strike. If the board rejects the appeal, Kohler will have to open some of its books to the U.A.W. and resume peace talks on the union's terms...
...currency will not be won overnight. Said he: "We recognize that this is a long, stiff haul. Our policy is to halt the increase in the supply of money. In years ahead, it will be harder to earn profits under this policy. It will be harder to get wage increases-they will need to be earned. But the profits and wages will be paid in honest pounds...