Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday, April 28, Mr. Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Mr. Spencer Miller, Jr., Secretary of the Workers Educational Bureau of America, will be the guest speakers. Mr. Hillman will speak on "A Shorter Working Day and a Minimum Wage." Mr. Miller's topic will be "The Challenge to Labor of the New Leisure...
...Central Conference of American Rabbis has come out for: broader distribution of wealth; the principle of labor unionism; "the right to a living wage"; old-age pensions and health insurance for laborers; a five-day work week...
...unemployed for a year. His father had not had work in three years. An Army doctor listened to Fiore's heart, thumped his chest, looked down his throat, passed him as physically fit. Fiore Rizzo signed a blank authorizing the Government to pay $25 of his $30 monthly wage to his family, swore a 250-word oath which he did not fully understand and was shipped off to an Army post near New Rochelle as the first recruit in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Nothing in the bill prevented employers from slashing wages to compensate for the new workers which the Senate was trying to force them to hire. The measure's critics loudly pointed out this defect, predicted a dire slump in already deflated wages or else a sharp jump in manufacturing sales prices. For the Black Bill to be completely effective nothing less drastic than a minimum wage provision was required and this the Senate did not yet dare to vote...
...Friday, April 21, W. R. Whitney, formerly Director of Research, General Electric Company, will speak on "The Relation of Science to Industry." On Friday, April 28, Sidney Hillman, president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, will speak on "A Shorter Working Day and a Minimum Wage" and Spencer Miller, Jr., secretary of Workers' Educational Bureau of America on "The Challenge to Labor of the New Leisure." On Friday, May 5, F. M. Davenport, congressman from New York, will speak on "The Magnitude of the Politician's Task...