Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs are concerned, they do not prevent destructive price cutting in the sale of commodities produced, any more than...
...Only intelligible as a reference to Japanese fear that Britain and the U. S. may wage a joint war of chastisement against Japan...
...Business, President Johnson spent millions on his workers' welfare, shared earnings with them, paid their hospital bills, gave them swimming pools, merry-go-rounds, tennis courts, called them by their first names. When NRA came to Endicott he was paying his 19,000 workers double the minimum wage. His workmen parade the slogan: THE NEW DEAL IS THE OLD SQUARE DEAL OF GEORGE...
...Cleveland contract with the Guild is the second of its kind in the land.* It provides a 40-hour five-day week, a minimum wage of $40 a week for newsmen and photographers with four years experience, a 10% pay rise for employes now receiving between $40 and $50 a week, three months pay for dismissed employes who have worked for the News nine years or more. Having secured so much, the Guild did not insist upon its supreme point-a closed shop...
Small change compared to the wage scales of a film company like Loews' were the other salaries listed by the SEC. Republic Steel upped President Tom M. Girdler from $117,420 to $129,372 per year, two vice presidents from $58,700 to $64,600. President Edwin Madison Allen of Mathieson Alkali worked for $86,700 in both 1933 and 1934. Donald L. Brown of reorganized United Aircraft will be paid $45,000. Salaries substantially the same in both years included President Walter Cabot Baylies of Boston's Edison Electric Illuminating: $32,000; Vice President Theodore D. Crocker of Northern...