Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compromise wage increase was offered yesterday to 460 University dining hall employees who threatened to strike last week in their bid for a favorable contract...
...current offer was interpreted as a concession to less skilled workers rather than employees on higher wage scales...
...Good Term . . ." How did it happen? For one thing, as Dwight Eisenhower said later, "Maine had a very popular governor." Genial Ed Muskie, son of a Polish immigrant, had turned in a successful administration, programmed improvements in social welfare, education, development of natural resources, asked for a minimum wage law, a new department of industry and commerce, and proposed a bond issue to maintain the pace of highway construction. What further fired Maine's independent-minded voters was Muskie's straightforward eggheadedness (Bates '36, Phi Beta Kappa), his ability to discuss convincingly ethical and moral questions...
Died. Archbishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, 75, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., who as a young rector in Oregon was named chairman of the state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy...
...MINIMUM WAGE BOOST to $1 per hour has been extended to 36 more businesses working on Government contracts. Among them: luggage, fireworks, tobacco, evaporated milk, soap, fertilizer, cement, tags, surgical instruments. Total affected thus...