Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glowering in his seat across the aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within...
...Boileau whom Mrs. Norton had designated to speak in favor of the measure, "I do not believe any man in the country, whether he be in the North or the South or the East or the West, should be obliged to work and provide for a family on a wage of less than 25? an hour or $11 per week...
Snapped Mr. Cox: "If the gentleman had the power to fix the wages of labor, would he in the exercise of that power totally and completely disregard the ability of the employer to pay the wage fixed...
Replied Progressive Boileau: "Any industry that cannot pay a decent wage has no justification for existing...
...Endicott-Johnson, employing 20,000 shoe workers in five New York cities, announced a wage cut of 5%, atop a 10% cut last month...