Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant of smallish Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. in Cleveland one day last week, employes clustered around bulletin boards on which were posted notices of a 10% wage increase effective April 1. Such was the signal for a general upping of all steel wages. One by one other steel companies fell in line. Finally U. S. Steel made it official for the industry by announcing a raise of "approximately 10%" for some 140,000 of its employes. Noteworthy was the fact that for the first time U. S. Steel allowed an independent to initiate the new wages of steel...
...wage increase affecting some 420,000 workers will add about $40,000,000 to steel's annual wage bill at current rates of operation. It will up production costs about $1.30 per ton. Ducking off the front page where their wage news had landed them, steelmasters promptly raised prices for the second quarter between...
...last week in boosting pay levels. But the procession was not so long nor so effusive as that which preceded the battle of the codes last summer. When General Johnson sent a questionnaire to all code authorities last week, bluntly asking whether they intended to comply with the Roosevelt wage program and if not, why not, Washington interpreted it as a sign that a President's wish may soon become a President's order...
...rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America signed an agreement with most of the Appalachian operators providing for a seven-hour day, a five-day week and a basic wage scale of $5 per day. By administrative order General Johnson promptly made it effective for the whole bituminous industry, thus making Coal's work week the shortest for any major industry. It was estimated that, including the cut in hours, the wage increase amounted to about $100,000,000 annually...
...blow. The strike question therefore became a three-cornered battle in which the Administration might give aid and comfort to either side provided a showdown could be pre vented. Fortnight ago here was a preliminary skirmish when the A. F. of L. Automobile Workers' Union demanded a 20% wage increase and recognition. Last week the opening gun of the battle was fired by the National Automobile Chamber of Com merce. After a two-day session in Detroit the Chamber issued a manifesto declaring that, in spite of the fact that hourly wages are as high as in 1929, that...