Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Closer collaboration between colleges and government personnel, establishment of a permanent corps of trained administrators, greater flexibility of promotion and transfer within the service, and a higher wage scale were among the points emphasized, in the undergraduate report...
...circumstances. Management generally thinks of it from one of four angles-promotion of employe security, improvement of employe-owner relations, solution of social problems, or as an incentive to increase production. Labor leaders dislike it because it makes unionization more difficult; causes particular companies to deviate from standard union wage scales; represents deferred compensation which workers would rather have weekly; and, finally, opens the way to loss-sharing...
...conflicting theories has led the sponsors of profit-sharing into dozens of applications: cash bonus plans, stock purchase plans, semi-retirement plans, etc. Procter & Gamble's is the best known in the U. S., with 50 years of success behind it. Its employes kitty in 5% of their wages. The company matches this with a contribution of 5% of the worker's wage for the first two years, increases this to a maximum of 15% by the time the worker has served 15 years. The fund is used to purchase stock over a period of six years, after...
...somewhat different setup was reported by Treasurer Marion B. Folsom of Eastman Kodak Co., which has paid a "wage dividend" every year since 1912, excepting 1934, the amounts varying with common stock dividends...
...holding the Jewish community of Germany in a state of general inability to earn a living wage, Nazis obviously hope to force the international Jewish community to remit to Germany huge enough sums in "good money" to keep their Jewish relatives in the Reich from going too hungry or too cold. The dollars, pounds, francs to be secured by thus "shaking down the whole Jewish race" (as some Nazis term it) are wanted to pay for such vital imports as Germany cannot get by barter deals. The Schwarze Korps, influential Nazi newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's personal Elite Guard...