Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against a new law, but the fact remained that the 130-hour rule was written into the act at the express request of President Roosevelt's new WPAdministrator, Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. And Franklin Roosevelt was on record, since as early as 1935, as opposing the "prevailing wage" provision demanded (and heretofore obtained) by union labor. In signing the new Relief Act, Franklin Roosevelt noted other "hardships" worked by it (TIME, July 10), but he passed the 130-hour proviso without comment. Evidently he and his Janizariat had not realized what a cannon-cracker it would...
When Congress set up WPA four years ago, friends of union labor saw to it that union hourly wage scales, as prevailing in different sections of the U. S., were provided for skilled workmen. Thus, if union carpenters were getting $1.75 an hour in private employment, carpenters working for WPA got $1.75. Result: to earn the maximum monthly wage of $92.89 allotted to them, they need work only 53 hours a month. The unions' interest in thus preventing Unemployment from breaking the market for their labor was only natural. But WPA's prevailing-wage provision had other effects...
...Pared a separate two-year Relief appropriation from $73,000,000 to $35,500,000, loading it with amendments to make sure that Relief does not interfere with the supply of low-wage farm hands...
...week, Wheeling Steel gets a lot of air advertising for a little. The orchestra men are unionized and get $38 a week each. The other regulars are considered 'amateurs." The veteran Singing Millmen, one a steel-plate "shearman," another a switchman, get $20 each over their regular weekly wage. The hotcha Steele Sisters, a blondy little trio, all 18-year-old high-school girls with relatives in the company, each get $10 a broadcast. Average cost per week for the whole program is about $3,500, $2,500 of this for air time over 27 MBS stations coast...
...Blend the wage scale with a profit-sharing differential and the same human being who was previously concentrating his attention on wages will discard the combative spirit-his self-preservation instinct previously centred only on a flat wage scale will cease...