Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho's Borah growled that he had got just two letters, both commending his vote for the "prevailing wage" amendment. Father of the fracas, Nevada's portly Pat McCarran, told reporters that of the 200 communications he had received, all save one were favorable...
...First Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady, addressing a rally of unionized telephone operators. What stung this strong language from Labor's dandified McGrady was the double punch which Federal courts had just handed NRA's collective bargaining clause in Delaware (see p. 15), its wage fixing provisions in Kentucky...
Granting again a temporary injunction to 35 western Kentucky soft coal operators against the code authority's enforcement of its minimum wage scale, Judge Dawson ruled: "Whenever the Government unconstitutionally interferes with the right of a citizen to do business in his own way, that interference constitutes an injury to the property rights of the citizen; and that interference takes the form of exacting payment of wages in excess of what the citizen is willing to pay. To the extent of the increased wages, this citizen has been injured in his property rights. Surely, in such a situation...
...that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work as cash boy in a Charleston department store. Six months later he got a job as messenger with the Southern Railway, eking out his $8-per-month wage with tips and newspaper-selling at night. After seven years his salary was $35 per month. Meantime he had learned shorthand and typing, got a schooling in literature from an old classical scholar fallen on evil days. In 1896 a move to Savannah gave him a chance to study mathematics at night...
...Chamber of Deputies supplies the funds, Flandin's CCC camps will be set up in 13 of France's 90 departments to put French unemployed to work at reforestation and roadbuilding, the men to get food, lodging, clothes and a wine ration, their families to get their wage...