Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the Republicans on that one: for on that point depended the question of whether there should be a Santa Claus in the election of November 1936. The Republicans' next most unanimous decision was to incorporate in the bill the direct requirement for the payment of the "prevailing wages" (i. e. in most cases union wages) rather than a relief wage of around $50 a month as planned by the Administration. This was something on which they could make trouble for the Administration, for the President had only just got it eliminated in committee by a special appeal...
Concrete evidences of Congressional insubordination to presidential wishes daily grow more prevalent. Yesterday a motley crew in the Senate tacked an amendment requiring prevailing wage sales on the administration's public works program. Roosevelt forces, from the President to the lowliest adherent, have brought their full, organized support is hear on Congress to keep the bill unmutilated all to no avail...
Working on a variety of motives, the opposition everrede resistance by a vote of 44 to 43. McCarran and other disciples of Mr. Green, of the American Federation of Labor, fathered the measure, blinded by a dogmatic adherence to the one high-wage scale for all workers. The buffoon from Louisiana, too tolerantly dismissed as a fool, whipped wavering Senators into line, from a much-heralded desire to "do anything" to thwart the administration. Republicans, acting with usual partisan tactics, voted almost as a block for the amendment. The appalling fact is that none of the opposition cliques knows...
...drafted the amendment would compel the Government to pay prevailing wage rates on construction projects undertaken under the pending bill. The rates, however, would be frozen at the level existing when the program is initiated
Washington, Feb. 19--The White House whip crackled tonight over rebellious Democrats as the Administration sought to whip into line sufficient votes to defeat the embattled wage amendment to the $4,880,000,000 (B) works bill in the Senate tomorrow...