Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictator." Last week he did not actually sign the automobile code. He did not even give out a personal statement. But by letter and through spokesmen he let it be known that Ford Motor Co. would satisfy the major requirements of the motor code. He would file wage and hour reports for NRA with the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. As to collective bargaining, he dispatched...
...messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. ... He can neither prey on the misfortunes of others nor hoard his labor. . . . All history warns...
...Squabble between publishers and General Johnson is typical of the current reaction against the National Recovery Act. There is, it seems, a section of the permanent code which allows the president to license certain industries if "destructive wage or price cutting or other activities contrary to the policy of" NIRA should exist in them. Newspapers, sensing here a possible threat to journalistic freedom, demand that this offending fragment be struck out or amended in some way before their individual code is signed...
...ahead of all the others anyway and he can afford to take a rest and wait for the others to catch up. Certainly the approval of about 100 codes is a monumental task to have finished since July and if the controversial phases such as labor and wage rate adjustments were to be put to one side and an examination made of the many constructive things that have been inserted in the codes relating to business discipline and voluntary cooperation of business groups, then it might truly be said that more substantial progress has been made toward economic reorganization than...
...France and her Little Entente Allies decide that they must wage a "preventive war'' on Germany (TIME, Oct. 30) public opinion among their own peoples will have to be worked up. Last week grizzled old Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, "Father of Czechoslovakia" and its perpetual President, did something he had never done before on a birthday of his country, which last week was 15. Standing stiffly in Prague's Wenzel Square the President reviewed a Czechoslovak birthday parade in which for the first time marched not only citizens and peasants but troops...