Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his family in a 15-room house in suburban New Rochelle, N. Y. Like his father, mother and younger brother, he voted for Landon last month. Last week in Baltimore when his card appeared atop the first batch of Social Security applications, he became the first U. S. wage earner to be registered for a Government pension at 65. Said John David Sweeney Jr. when reporters and photographers found him in the bar of Manhattan's Princeton Club: "It's a Iong...
...Great Lakes district they claim 84,000 members, new and old, among 200,000 steel workers. While steel firms were combatting their organization drive by granting wage increases, C. I. O. won an unexpected victory when one of their supporters, Elmer J. Maloy of Duquesne, Pa. was elected head of a company union council of Carnegie-Illinois Corp., big subsidiary of U. S. Steel...
...Steel, so in Motors is C. I. O. pressing its unionization drive. While Philip Murray, Secretary & Treasurer of United Mine Workers, was speaking last week for the union at motor plants near Detroit, the Chrysler, General Motors and Packard companies all gave wage boosts or bonuses to their workers...
...much of this generosity was inspired by the Roosevelt landslide was impossible to determine. Certainly the rush to raise wages that developed in industry after Nov. 3 looked suspiciously like a hasty effort to climb aboard the band wagon of a President who is deeply indebted to Labor. Only big industry to get aboard ahead of time was Packing, which upped its scales 7% one week before Election. Steel hopped on as soon as returns were in. Wage boosts followed in the textile and automobile industries, in hundreds of miscellaneous manufacturing enterprises throughout the land. By last week United Press...
...skilled workers who compose two thirds of the membership of the Federation insist that the bulk of American labor be organized along craft union lines. They have a tremendous stake in prestige and wage differentials, both of which will be lost if vertical unions are set up to include in one group all the workers in an industry. The remaining third of the A.F. of L. have united into the Committee for Industrial Organization under John L. Lewis, and at this moment are locked in a struggle with the steel companies, the first battle in their campaign to bring...