Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House industrial program as thus far worked out had four fronts: 1) a minimum work-week law such as the Black 30-hour bill (TIME, April 17); 2) a minimum wage law to prevent a drop in pay rolls equal to the proposed drop in working hours; 3) a huge public works program; 4) resurrection of the old War Industries Board to enforce balanced production by quotas, price-fixing, and trade agreements now prohibited by the antitrust laws...
President Roosevelt revealed his sympathy for minimum wage legislation when he wired the Governors of New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Maryland. Delaware. North Carolina, Alabama and New Hampshire...
...Last week the New York Legislature passed a law to penalize manufacturers who pay "an oppressive and unreasonable wage . . . less than sufficient to meet the minimum cost of living necessary to health" to women and children...
Last week the embattled farmers paradoxically voted Premier Mitchell out of office in the Government elections, plumped strongly for secession. The Labor Party, which is against secession, but is also against Premier Mitchell's policy of wage reduction, won a majority of ten seats. Observers doubted whether anything more would be done about secession, called the vote a "protest, not a decision...
...declared that if President Hoover had not stood "as courageously as stood Foch at Verdun"-the Democrats "would have put us off the gold basis and the bony arm of the skeleton of Inflation would today be filching value from every savings bank account, every insurance policy and every wage envelope...