Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...durable acetate rayon upon which the present position of the industry (and that of Tubize Chattilon itself) is each day more firmly dependent. Many chemical engineers would have risked even money on the line that, even if labor had been willing to operate the plant at a collective wage of $0.00 a week, manufacture of nitrocellulose yarn at the plant would have ceased by August 1936. They would tell you, too, that it is probably as cheap to build a new acetate plant as to attempt a conversion...
...handlers normally employed by the Union Stock Yards to feed, water, unload, load, drive and weigh cattle struck originally last November for better wages and hours. That strike was quickly settled when it was agreed to submit all questions in dispute to an arbitrator. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan was suggested by the union and accepted by the company. On June 1 he rendered a decision: A 10% to 25% wage increase retroactive for 13 weeks, a 40-hour work week and the stipulation that those terms were to be binding on both parties until June 1935. Six weeks after...
Alabama. The United Textile Workers of America called a Statewide strike in Alabama demanding a 30-hour week, $12 minimum wage, abolition of the "stretch-out,"* reinstatement of men fired for union activity, union recognition. Out marched the hands in 24 mills in northern Alabama. Of the State's 35,000 textile workers the union estimated 22,000 were on strike, while employers set the figure at 13,000. Well aware that cotton goods have been piling up in warehouses, employers took the strike philosophically, announced the mills would stay shut indefinitely, declared the union was "striking against...
...President Roosevelt suspended, pending further investigation, two clauses which seemed particularly galling to the industry. One clause declared against "excessive" salaries; the other prohibited producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...
...mightily, Thresher Mussolini pitched wheat into the machine for one full hour while the peasants of Sabaudia, hoarse from their usual heavy doses of quinine, sang folk songs to him. An official called time and then handed him a pay ticket for 2 lire, 10 centesimi (18?), the usual wage for an Italian farm laborer's hour of work. Puffing and bedewed, Mussolini felt that a speech was indicated. He climbed the threshing machine and shouted breathlessly: "On July 9, in the year 12 of the Fascist Revolution, Mussolini threshed the first wheat at Sabaudia...