Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructed to pay a "security" wage instead of matching prevailing wages, which might be higher...
...months a Senate subcommittee created by a resolution of Michigan's conservative Vandenberg has been studying the relationship of the U. S. wage system to labor disputes, and to national prosperity. This week, in a 351-page report, it gave its findings...
...Wages will never settle the labor problem because the saturation point will never be reached," wrote Arthur Vandenberg and his colleagues. "Wage increases create the same result as the serving of red meat to animals at the zoo-satisfaction for the moment, a more ravenous appetite later...
...doctors, lawyers, professors, and tycoons. Only four per cent of you- say thirty out of six hundred and fifty--will be part of the eleven million who tramp the payments. And finally, if you are working, you will be earning $4.75 a week more than the average full-time wage earner in the United States...
...businessmen who have been screaming for relief from taxes, to the Republican Party-which has been crying for reduction in Federal spending, to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce which wants to repeal the Wage-Hour Law-to all these and sundry other critics Franklin Roosevelt this week boomed his answer. In his best oratorical form, before the friendly American Retail Federation, he virtually defied all critics, announced that the New Deal would not give them an inch...