Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with her brother Charles. They signed up promptly with NRA, got Blue Eagle No. 13 in the Philadelphia district. But when the Supreme Court shattered NRA last month the in employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were informed that they were going back on the old wage & hour schedules-a 50-hr., 5½-day week with pay for the 85 factory girls down from $13 to $10 per week. The employes struck...
...little effect on the industry. Code or no code, there have always been gasoline price wars. And control of overproduction has been strengthened by special Federal legislation drafted in accordance with Supreme Court dictates. Nicely timed to demonstrate the industry's good faith were 5% "cost-of-living" wage boosts made last week by Sun, Tidewater and Standard of New Jersey...
...Industries with chronic overproduction or a vast number of small-units will miss code discipline the most. The ugly problem of wage & hour differentials between the North and South was again to the fore in textiles and coal-complicated as always by excess capacity. Cement and fertilizer makers were nervous about prices. Copper men hoped to continue their curtailment program on a voluntary basis. In the liquor industry with its six codes scrapped price-cutting came early and easily...
...structure of U. S. Business were incalculable. The unstable ice industry may fall into confusion but manufacturers of ice-making machinery will probably profit. Almost no modern ice-making machinery has been purchased for nearly two years because installation required an NRA permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect a slackening in the recent heavy demand for labor-saving equipment now that wages & hours are purely...
Died, William Haynes Truesdale, 83. retired president and board chairman of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad ; of bronchial pneumonia; in Greenwich, Conn. Harddriving, he opposed legislative restrictions on railroads, wage increases and eight-hour-day laws. During his term (1899-1925) D. L. & W. paid $192,000,000 in cash dividends on a property worth...