Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...codes of service industries. Next day General Johnson promptly performed the permitted operation on seven codes: 1) cleaning & dyeing; 2) automobile storage and parking; 3) barbers: 4) bowling and billiards; 5) shoe rebuilding; 6) advertising display installations: 7) advertising distribution. This stripped these codes to the bare bone of wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local codes provided 85% of their members agree, but no longer will NRA headquarters try to set the price of pressing a pair of pants in Bangor, Dallas...
...democratic country . . . can possibly wage war successfully unless the people are behind it. The people will not be . . . unless they are convinced from their viewpoint that it is a just war. Therefore, the people should be constantly told what the dangers are in the world, how they can best be met and when the time might come when . . . this country must defend itself...
...efforts, export trade with the colonies, life blood of the port, has slumped. A local irk is the fact that, of all the Marseillais on the dole, a large proportion are jobless Italians and Rumanians. Nationality has nothing to do with the qualifications for French unemployment relief. A dismissed wage earner or salaried worker who has practiced one calling for six months, has been a resident of one city for three months, can collect up to 50% of what he earned when last employed. The average dole for an unemployed single man is seven francs...
...President White made it clear that Western Union would accept what he thought was a Postal code only by court order. His counsel, maintaining that Congress had no intention of codifying an industry already regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission, swore that Western Union was ready to wage "a legal contest along all fronts...
...heating were $42,371.84, whereas in 1932-33, with an average temperature of 44.1 degrees, the cost was only $29,796.15. This was accomplished entirely by careful study of the efficiency of the unit and a checking up of any losses due to faulty equipment. There have been no wage cuts at any time since 1929. To show the gains made more emphatically, it is pointed out that in the early twenties it cost $16,000 to heat Widener Library, compared with $8, 031,02 last year...