Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...microphone. Within 30 seconds the President had grasped the nettle by saying that he was going to talk about "industry and labor," his first point being that he was "bringing order out of the old chaos with a greater certainty of the employment of labor at a reasonable wage and of more business at a fair profit...
Certainly the organization has not fulfilled the high hopes which its sponsors shared as its inception. The trouble may not be laid alone to the famous 7a clause which has been partly responsible for the labor troubles. But its interference with prices through wage regulation is being blamed for the slowness of recovery. With minimum wages set so high, manufacturers have raised their prices before the consumer could meet them. The result has been that leaders of industry have been losing confidence in its success, and once this happens success becomes practically impossible. No matter how splendid the ideas...
...with a large share of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second biggest coal mine in Colorado. She bought complete control, was the first operator in the State to unionize. When non-union owners tried to break her by underselling, Colorado unionists put on a voluntary promotion campaign, took a temporary wage cut. Miss Roche's company now sells Denver most of its lignite...
Those two amiable wage Stuart Erwin and Skeets Gallagter, make "Bachelor Bait" very amusing. It is the story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
Raymond Vail Ingersoll, Borough President of Brooklyn, who has acted as an arbitrator in labor disputes for the cloak & suit and the knit-goods industries, who served as chairman of New York's minimum wage board when Frances Perkins was New York's Commissioner of Labor...