Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home mortgages. For Townsendites, there was "assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged." For Share-the-Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone not wholly beguiled by these promises, it was also proposed that Congress should guarantee a living wage to every laborer, profitable production to every farmer, prosperity to every small businessman, a job to every youth...
Three-to-three the Justices deadlocked on acts establishing minimum wage machinery, 48-hr, week, compulsory one-day's-rest-in-seven...
This precisely was the rub, not only in French hotels but throughout all French industry. Jean Frenchman, something like 1,000,000 strong, had won from his employer by the week's end wage increases of 7% to 15%, but how real was that victory...
Coming back from Geneva to Paris, as soon as he heard that "in principle" the great majority of strikes seemed to have been settled locally, Trade Union Boss Léon Jouhaux estimated that the wage increases, the shortening of the worker's week to 40 hours and the enforced improvement of working conditions must increase French production costs by at least 35%-and they are already among the highest in the world, most other countries having cheapened their prices by cheapening their money. Unquestionably this week Le Peuple Souverain thought they had won higher wages in gold standard...
...seemed last week to be the least worried of any French employers, to judge from the way in which they rebuffed strikers. Almost as one man members of the ''200 Families'' who own the heavy and munitions industries of France refused to grant the 10% wage uppings other employers were widely granting. Accustomed to smash others, they seemed to be waiting for Leon Blum & Friends to try to smash them, daring the new Cabinet...