Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South, where living conditions and wage rates are lower than in the North, was cast by nature in the role of antagonist to wage-&-hour legislation. Hence last week's fight was conducted mainly along sectional lines. Leaders of the opposition were Sam McReynolds of Chattanooga, who predicted that the Bill would "put the life and death struggle of industry in the hands of Madam Perkins," and Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. who said: "Let me ask you boys from the North this. . . . Why have you set yourselves up as arbiters to undertake to say to us that...
Professor Hoover, the author, points out that Soviet Russia is not communistic and that Nazi Germany is not capitalistic. He shows that wage differentials and interest on government bonds earmark the Soviet economy. The essentially anti-captitalists nature of Fascism is illustrated by complete government control of the investment of profits, payments of dividends, and poce of production...
...passed by the Senate, what the Wages & Hours Bill proposed was a five-man Labor Standards Board, named by the President and confirmed by the Senate, to set nationwide pay & working standards in all U. S. industries affecting interstate commerce, except farming and industries already under Government regulation. The LSB was to set minimum wages up to 40? an hour, maximum hours down to 40 hours a week. Also included were strict child-labor limits. Infringement of the LSB rulings would be misdemeanors punishable by a $500 fine, six months in jail or both. Any such supervision over...
...last sixty days the University has given two wage increases to low-paid employees, and it shortly faces the necessity of taking a stand on the A. F. of L. bid for a closed shop among the dining-hall workers. The suddenness of this activity and the fact that it coincides with a drive for unionization make the gestures look much like barn-locking after the horse is stolen. Thus caught napping at first base Harvard must find out why its wage policy leaves the University open to union drives, and whether or not, in fact...
...lower wage groups as mostly part-time workers the maids will receive 38 cents an hour for regular work, 43 cents for vacation cleaning. "Biddies" will have gained by this move a flat increase of six cents...