Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) On a long shiny table in Room 800 B of Washington's new Shoreham Hotel was signed one night last week the biggest, most significant work-&-wage contract in the history of U. S. labor. At one end of the table, his beefy bulk overflowing the chair, sat John Llewellyn Lewis, black-maned, bushy-browed president of United Mine Workers of America. At the other end was the thin, rigid figure of John De Lorma Adams Morrow, president of Pittsburgh Coal Co., who also heads the potent Northern Coal Control Association. Loudly and often had Operator Morrow...
Cheap Billion. Because commercial banks see no good business reason to lend to industry to meet the additional wage burdens of the NRA codes; because the Federal Reserve's open-market operations had piled up an all-time record of $2,202,660,000 in U. S. securities without materially loosening credit; because Federal Reserve member banks had reserve surplus of $600,000,000 available for commercial loans. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was marched into the breach with $1,000,000,000 worth of cheap short-term loans for NRA members...
...Wages of about 25% of the 40,000 Ford factory employes were last week scaled up from a $4 per day minimum to $4.80. Outsiders thought the increase was Mr. Ford's first move to go his industry's code one better. Insiders declared it was all part of an old wage-upping program...
...Ford had supported President Hoover in the campaign. His defiance of the NRA would strike at the heart of the President's recovery program. General Johnson was deeply troubled. He did not want to risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code's weakened any boycott appeal. And there remained a chance that, when he did announce his plans, sly old Henry Ford, again with the White House for his amplifier, would outdo the NRA and his competitors in other respects than hours & wages...
Throughout Cuba the labor unions, released after eight years' suppression, were agitating among the unorganized sugar-mill and cane field workers of the interior, who get an average wage of 20? a day. Demanding an increase to 50? a day, the labor leaders called strikes all through the interior, began to recruit by force and intimidation. Violence flared up in other Cuban industries...