Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearing in a non-conformist and an individualist, yet an individualist who believes in collectivism and collective economy. He has been active in movements for women's rights, higher wage rates, and the prevention of child labor...
...another matter the results of Senator Wagner's efforts were immediate. In the debate on the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill which occupied the Senate most of last week, Senator Wagner came out flatly for an amendment to require the payment of the prevailing wage scale on work relief projects. The President had proposed and the Senate Appropriations Committee had approved with qualifications, setting men to work at $50 a month or thereabouts-roughly twice what they would get as a dole. The Administration had two reasons for its stand: 1) workers must...
...responsibility by calling everything relief and applying the standards of relief. If we are satisfied with relief alone, we shall never achieve economic reconstruction. If those on public works are treated on a relief basis, every objective of public works will be defeated. Morale will be lowered, not restored; wages will go down, not up; purchasing power will shrivel, not expand; business will be demoralized, not stabilized. The wage policy of the New Deal will be thrown into reverse, and the business machine will be driven back into the deepest trough of depression...
...completed by Senators who cut their cloth not according to principle but according to political profit. Several men of principle tried to save the President from defeat. Senator Byrd's opinion of spending five billions is pale beside that of Carter Glass, but, rather than see the prevailing wage amendment adopted, Senator Glass manfully fought the President's battle. He read the Senate a letter from the President, solemnly assured his colleagues that he had "substantive reason to believe" that the President would veto the bill if the prevailing wage amendment were adopted...
...much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing wage amendment won 44-to-43-24 Democrats deserting the President, all but four Republicans deserting the principles of economy...