Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party system must be judged any political party unable to furnish a consistent critical opposition. By its recent action in relation to the Public Works Relief Bill, the Republican Party has definitely put itself into that category. The opposition of Republican Senators to the administration in the recent "prevailing wage" amendment vote was no more than blind opposition. Their vote was based on the reasoning that President Roosevelt wants the Relief Bill passed without the amendment, that Roosevelt is a Democrat, that, therefore, he must be opposed...
...have maintained throughout the Roosevelt administration that prosperity should return through the normal channels of recovering industry, that no government agency should give it artificial stimulation. But now that Roosevelt is making an effort to protect industry while administering relief, they oppose him. Instead, they would have a relief wage so high that it would take labor away from industry, that would, in fact, give relief, jobs preferment over private capital...
...paid his first visits to Washington in 1933 he went as the representative of the hard-headed big four cigaret makers with the job of getting a "re-employment agreement" (i. e. preliminary code) that suited them. He got a code that specified not a minimum but an average wage, and he got it without fireworks and without making enemies except in the labor camp. In fact he made decided friends of Hugh Johnson, Donald Richberg and Daniel Roper. He also got along very well with Franklin Roosevelt-over the package of Camels on the President's desk...
...Excellency Cianetti last week declared: "The experiment of the 40-hour week is for six months, that is until April 16. It is conducted through contracts signed between representatives of the employers' syndicates and the workers' syndicates in Italian industry. Since the worker gets the same hourly wage while his week's salary is less by eight hours' pay, the experiment is not an added burden to the employer, as was the case when a shorter week with the same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does not increase the price...
...said the prevailing wage amendment to the Works Relief Bill was adopted last week to prevent lowering "the American working man to the status of the Mexican peons...