Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper's Business Advisory Council, he be came Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, has since pleased Franklin Roosevelt by his frequent high-sounding definitions of New Deal intentions. Sample: "By some method yet to be discovered, it seems to me that industry must...
...process has been hard on Labor. Nowhere is this more evident than in Akron, which last week witnessed a Grade A case in point: In a blunt manifesto to the United Rubber Workers Union, B. F. Goodrich Co. announced that its workers would have to accept 13% to 18% wage cuts or else Goodrich would pull another 5,000 jobs out of its Akron plants...
...years Akron pay scales have been higher than those of most other cities. This caused little trouble so long as most of the major rubber firms were concentrated in Akron. But in 1936 Akron rubber workers staged a strike which raised wages still further. Goodyear, Firestone and to a lesser extent Goodrich then began building plants in such scattered spots as Oaks, Pa., Jackson, Mich., Fall River, Mass. Akron now produces only 40% of U. S. rubber as against 55% two years ago. Akron rubber workers, however, still cling to their high wage rate (an average of $1.05 an hour...
...Goodrich paid to wage earners in Akron $19,361,927.57. Akron cannot afford to lose any part of this pay roll. But it can only be maintained by keeping Goodrich competitive with companies outside of Akron...
Revelation No. 2: Much more pretentiously Klim announced that the Soviet Union is today prepared to wage not only gas warfare but also germ warfare "upon the soil" of any nation which uses such weapons against Russia first...