Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private employers dwindled alarmingly. Georgia's Governor Talmadge complained first about Government competition, then wailed that no Government officials would listen to him. FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins impatiently snapped: "All that guy is after is headlines. . . . Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage." When Governor Talmadge kept on squawking, Administrator Hopkins humiliated him and his State by appointing a Federal representative to take administration of relief funds out of his hands...
Sullen employes became her loyal partners. Up went efficiency and profits but down on her came the wrath of the industry. Led by the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., her competitors started a cutthroat price war. With a high wage scale, Operator Roche was not prepared to fight. Her friends fought for her. Employes volunteered to lend half their pay for three months. Colorado unionists launched a State-wide sales campaign for her coal. Her opponents crawled from the field...
While the huge deficit of 30 billion dollars in itself can be handled by the United States, the wage in which it has been constructed give serious cause for alarm. The devaluation of the dollar, the flotation of large bond issues, and the government's appropriation of the gold reserve all tend to undermine credit. With this money the government has often spent five dollars to give one dollar of relief. Evidently the four dollar discrepancy ensures a vote for the new deal. Such haphazard spending will not bring about a utopia where everyone is satisfied; it will land...
Beliefs: lower taxes; more money for the unemployed. (This irreconcilability reminiscent of Curley). More welfare money from Roosevelt. Unemployment insurance; minimum wage laws; old age security; abolition to child labor; elimination of sweat-shops; lower automobile insurance rates...
...possibly pay that much. One of the prime reasons for high rents is the cost of labor on the job. At Hillside, bricklayers get $13.20 a day, plasterers and stonecutters, $12; carpenters, masons, electricians, $11.20. As every contractor knows, there can be no low-cost housing at such a wage scale for the building trades...