Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Developments in Washington indicate that the President will not be able to carry his $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill through Congress without amendment. The Senate Appropriations Committee provided, by a vote of 12 to 8, that the wages paid in the public works program should be "not less than the prevailing wage" of private industry in the locality. This provision goes directly contrary to the President's wishes, and removes an essential safeguard to prevent the huge expenditures of public money from interfering in the recovery of private business...
...Washington, NRA will go on trial before the U. S. Supreme Court because a smalltime battery manufacturer in York, Pa. could not pay the 40? per hour minimum wage required by his code. No newsreel camera was on the spot when Fred Perkins was visited by the Federal marshal, told he was violating the law, but he and his wife and his workmen will never forget the scene. To York, Pa. and into Fred Perkins' home and battery shop went The March of Time's photoreporters (scriptwriter, director, cameramen). The story was reconstructed and rehearsed just...
...operation five years. The size of the annuities would vary with the number of weekly contributions to the annuity fund. The maximum that any one over 65 would get, after contributing to the annuity fund for 45 years, would be 40% on the first $150 of his monthly wage. Thus if a man works at a wage income of $100 a month for 45 years he will have contributed $1,050 to the annuity fund and his employers an equal amount. The total sum, $2,100, even with 3% interest added, cannot provide many $40-a-month pension payments...
...There is a school-I had, inaccurately, almost said 'of thought,'-in NRA that has prevailed since I left it which insists that any provision against predatory price slashing is 'economically unsound' and 'unenforceable and 'rendered unnecessary by the wage-fixing rules.' I fear that they have prevailed and that new NRA legislation proposed by the Administration will follow this so-called view. It is a ghastly paradox and I will fight it with all that I have to give. Here we have self-styled reformers echoing the shibboleth of some...
...Specify the wage scale to be paid under construction contracts let by the government...