Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Towards this latter department at Harvard there is already a growing feeling of antagonism both on the part of the Faculty and the students. The feeling is prevalent that men should not be instructed how to wage war but how to preserve peace and international tranquility without force. By abolishing these military courses from the curriculum the University would set a precedent for other colleges and aid in a practical way in furthering the cause of peace...
...Labor Board had good cause to worry over the word. The Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, went to Racine, Wis. to settle a six-week strike of 4,600 men in the Nash Motors and Seaman Body plants. It arranged an agreement on the basis of a 10% wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window...
...interim the Mechanics Educational Society (union of automobile tool and die workers) served notice on the entire motor industry that unless its members were granted a 20% wage increase, a 36-hour five-day week, its men would go on strike in six days. Impatiently the American Federation of Labor wired President Roosevelt that Dr. Wolman's Board was wasting time trying to mediate cases of discrimination instead of settling them summarily and proceeding to arrange for collective bargaining committees. Battered from pillar to post, the Board, whose appointment "settled" the strike which threatened three weeks ago to shut...
Another of M. Doumergue's decrees will trim salaries on a sliding scale. There will be a 20% cut for President Lebrun, 15% for the Cabinet. 10% for all salaries over 100,000 francs. Even 12,000-francers will lose 5% of their small wage. The Cumul will be abolished, the system whereby one employe holds several posts and draws pay for each, nor can anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees...
...successor, Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, did not inherit his father's flamboyant sense of salesmanship. Quiet and methodical, he likes to fiddle with machinery and motor boats, keep out of the limelight. But in the dark days of February 1933 he astounded conservative businessmen by upping Wrigley wages 25%. And he was the first to put the Blue Eagle on his gum packages. Last week Gummaker Wrigley again made news by announcing a $1,000,000 employes' "assurance" plan. "In talking with workers in our factories," said he, "I discovered that their chief worry...