Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Industrial Recovery Act requires all signers of codes--and this is not the NRA speaking but the language of the law itself--to agree to comply with various wage and hour rules and "with other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the President," which, of course, means the NRA and its various officials. If, therefore, after weeks or months of discussion a code is written and accepted by an industry and a man goes home thinking his problems are settled, he may wake up some day and find: an executive order completely changing everything agreed upon because...
...Weirton Steel Company, which has been a mote in the eye of General Johnson and the Labor Board for several months, has come out flatfooted against the wage and union provisions of the NRA. It has not only forbidden its employees to organize for purposes of collective bargaining but it has discharged several of them for joining unions. Memoranda on the case, petitions and affidavits, have been circulating back and forth between the Federal Trade Commission and the Labor Board; the first actual response of the Administration has been the filing of a suit for injunction against these practises...
...Micky, level-headed Irish girl who worked in the Baumann mill, it was just things-as-they-are, and pleasant enough when she went down to the seaside cave with her Portuguese lover, Ramon. To Labor Agitator Marvin, Fullerton was another opportunity. When the Baumann mill announced a 10% wage-cut to protect its dividends, trouble started. Marvin organized a strike. Ramon, who had been promoted, was too ambitious to join, but Micky did. That put a stop to their affair. Mrs. Thayer thought Ramon, with a little polishing, might do for her Marjorie, but as Marjorie. lately seduced...
...will get out of this depression, as I see it, only if business is sufficiently enterprising in the next year, even in spite of the faulty policies of the NRA and the CWA, to absorb an increasing number of unemployed wage earners. After all, unemployment is the result of errors in judgment made by ourselves, the directing classes...
...dropped to 58,000 in (the fiscal year) 1932. First hint of trouble came that year when the French Government threatened legal action to force M. Citroën to hand over the social insurance premiums he had collected from his 25,000 employes. Last spring a 10% wage cut brought ugly rioting at the Citroën plant in Paris, a lock-out and in the end a several-weeks' shutdown. A completely redesigned Citroën for 1934 entailed heavy retooling expenses and Jean Frenchman cocked a doubtful eyebrow at the new low-priced models. By last...