Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That either means joint wage agreements or the damnedest strike you ever...
...Skilled workers, having earned their Federal money in a few hours, could secretly work and earn elsewhere during the month (at any wage levels they chose). This aroused jealousy, criticism...
Administrator Harrington asked Congress for a "security wage" up to $96, based on regional living costs and he said, "It is my recommendation that persons employed on projects of the WPA be required to work 130 hours per month and that the earnings of such persons be on a monthly basis . . . that substantially the present national average labor cost [to WPA] be maintained...
...course, upon A. F. of L.'s President William Green, who had failed to act when the bill was before Congress. He now called a meeting in Washington of all his union presidents to put on belated heat. Cried he: "A vital principle is at stake. The wage standards of organized labor, built up through years of sacrifice, suffering and collective bargaining, are threatened . . . strikes and strikes...
Walter Reuther warned G. M. many weeks ago what he was going to do. His chief demands were for wage increases of at least 10? an hour, double pay on Sundays, and a union label on all tools, dies, jigs, parts...