Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest business on earth.'' Says he: "The business . . . calls for the best. Sometimes it mistreats its best, starves them, and then throws them into the ashcan. More often it deals with infinite justice and consideration. . . . The job of reporter has heartwarming compensations. Sometimes it pays a living wage. Sometimes it is 'a stepping stone toward better things.' Again it is a satisfying career in itself." Many a youngster wondering whether or not to "take up journalism" will read Stanley Walker's book and decide against it. For the ambitious cub who gets on a paper...
Emergency v. Emergency. At Welch, W. Va., a sawmill operator named Killem worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with...
...Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider" Mr. Williams' appointment...
...bright spot in NRA's code enforcement week was the case of 4,700 New York Chinese hand laundrymen. Since few of them read English, they were surprised to learn that they were expected to comply with NRA's minimum wage and hour provisions: $6.82 for a 20-hr. week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing...
Lately the packers have been enjoying modest prosperity. They have to carry vast inventories which in meat's present upward swirl have proved wonderfully profitable. Employment is at least 110% of normal. Last week, after decorous palaver with employe representatives, the Big Four consented to up wages 8%. Topping an 18% increase at the start of NRA another 10% boost last December, last week's raise put the industry's wage scales above 1929 levels. Little packers throughout the Midwest promptly followed suit...