Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to a flawless, polished stone of 125 carats sold that to H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda for $400,000, also sold other parts of the Star of the South for good prices.) In Amsterdam last week miserable striking diamond cutters went back to work for a reduced wage of 25 florins ($10) per week...
Under a new income tax law signed by the President, "Turkish wage earners become the most heavily taxed in the world." according to Istanbul papers. Every Turk, no matter how minute his income, must pay at least 30% to the State. Richest Turks will get off easier than richest Englishmen who are taxed out of half their income. In Turkey, under the new law. "incomes over $300 per month shall be taxed...
...Federal tax system, it could never be got out. Precisely because it was easy to collect, it would stimulate governmental extravagance, thwart economy. To match the Hearst Press's whoops for the Sales Tax, the Scripps-Howard chainpapers whooped loud against it in "defense" of housewives and wage-earners. The manufacturers' lobby quietly rejoiced...
...reasonable," "arbitrary" and "legitimate." Thus a century of evolution transformed the 5th Amendment into a weapon with which the Court could suppress any regulatory experiments by Congress of which it disapproved. In the hands of the Supreme Court the 5th Amendment wrecked an effort to establish a minimum wage law for women in the District of Columbia, on the ground that such a law violated "liberty of contract." Likewise zoning laws were annulled because they unconstitutionally deprived owners of the free use of their property. To circumvent this "due process" clause Congress, whose attempt to stamp out child labor...
...ouster move might have died away had not Mayor Key infuriated organized labor in his attempt at municipal economy. He accepted a low bid for the construction of an administration building at Atlanta's airport. Labor leaders, protesting that the wage scale was too low, got the City Council to pass a measure adding $4,300 as a workers' bonus. Mayor Key, determined to retrench, vetoed it. The Atlanta Federation of Trades picked up the Drys' recall petition, pushed it hard enough to secure last week's election...