Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nomination'' of Leader Joseph T. Robinson for the Court (see p. 17). By the week's end, however, he was again pushing events before him, getting under way his first big project since his return from the tantalizing tarpon of Texas: his drive for wage & hour legislation...
...matter of routine appropriations they had finished only four bills, with ten yet to go. Experienced observers were predicting last week that outside of the necessary money bills and some decision on Court rejuvenation, all the rest of the major constructive measures set for action this session-wage & hour regulation, low-cost housing, executive reorganization, crop insurance, lessening of farm tenancy, and many others- would either go by the board or be whipped through in slapdash form at session's end. The causes of the stall were clear: the legislative machine had been jammed by President Roosevelt...
...light of your currently professed friendship for Mr. Roosevelt's policies, Mr. Shaw, why do the labor-baiting Los Angeles Times, the howling Hearst press, the local Liberty Leaguers, the Partisan non-partisan Republicans, the professional patriots, the underworld forces and all the reactionary elements, which in 1936 waged a slanderous, slimy, insolent, stupid and disastrous communistic campaign against President Roosevelt, plus a few nominal Democrats of mercenary inclination, now wage precisely the same sort of campaign against me and in support of you, as they supported Merriam in 1934 and Landon...
Free to set their own wage scale, Harlan operators claim to follow approximately the standard set by U. M. W. and the Appalachian Conference of operators (TIME, April 12). But Marshall Musick, a frail, sad-eyed union organizer whose .home was riddled with bullets one night last February, killing his son and seriously wounding his wife, told the Committee about the strings to that. Harlan miners, said he, average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been...
Having maneuvered Mr. Lewis and his directors into willingness to compromise, Mr. Taylor was then beset from another quarter. Some independent steelmen got wind of the Taylor-Lewis meetings, went to see Mr. Taylor. Apprised of the conversations, the independents argued heatedly for a wage boost instead of recognition. Mr. Taylor thought that wages were not the real issue and a wage increase could be avoided if recognition were granted. In this he was wrong. But confused by Big Steel's sudden refusal to play with them, the independents did nothing about their own scheme. In the time thus...